Betting a Billion, Jan 10, 2005

I said that there would be a crisis in the Linux community thanks to the SCO threat, and that some new governing structure would emerge as a result. At the time I wrote that, I thought Open Source Development Labs was stepping-up to take some semblance of control of Linux through its hiring of Linus Torvalds. This one is hard to call, but I think I got it more right than wrong.

Warren has announced the release of Beta 04 of ProMEPIS Linux. It is available for test and evaluation at the usual mirror sites and from the MEPIS premium FTP site. A big change is the introduction of kernel 2.6.10, replacing the older kernel 2.6.7. The new kernel has many hardware and performance improvements, yet it comes at a price.

... basically it’s a Linux-based tablet PC with an 8.4-inch touchscreen, a 624MHz processor, 20GB hard drive, 256MB of RAM, built-in 802.11b WiFi, Bluetooth, an SD memory card slot.

Following up on the success of the Firefox open source Web browser, released by the Mozilla Foundation last fall, open source software developers are readying some new products aimed at a consumer market still dominated by proprietary software.

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