Linux Online - News from Jan 20, 2005

News from Jan 20, 2005

Court ruling is a plus for SCO vs. IBM, Jan 20, 2005

A federal magistrate has handed a partial victory to Utah's SCO Group, ordering computer giant IBM to turn over more of its Linux operating system-related program codes.

What OSDL Isn't Doing—and What It Could Do, Jan 20, 2005

It turns out that Open Source Development Labs isn't sitting on big news after all about patents and Linux. But it could make some news by supporting the opening up of patents for open source.

BigTux project shows Linux scaling to 64 processors, Jan 20, 2005

HP has demonstrated Linux running on 64 Itanium 2 processors without any loss of efficiency, and says it's seeing growing interest in open source from financial institutions

Red Hat Linux in 5 Indian languages, Jan 20, 2005

Red Hat has announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 scheduled for release in February 2005 will support five Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and Tamil.

Penguin power serves up Aus open scores, Jan 20, 2005

Linux has made inroads into the enterprise on the back of commodity Intel and AMD processors, but this year's Australian Open tennis tournament will debut the open source operating system running on the Power architecture for its Internet scoring system.

Intel lets Linux into Centrino camp, Jan 20, 2005

Improvements to Linux have led Intel to permit Linux laptops to sport the Centrino brand for the first time.

Beowulf founder: Linux clusters ousting supercomputers, Jan 20, 2005

Linux clusters, InfiniBand and 64-bit processors -- particularly AMD Opteron -- are changing the face and fortunes of enterprise computing and Linux clusters, according to Donald Becker, co-founder of the Beowulf Project, which develops scalable, open source Linux clustering software.

UN project publishes free primer on open source software in education, Jan 20, 2005

The International Open Source Network, an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme, has produced a 48-page primer on "Free/Open Source Software and Education," which is now available for free public download.

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