Sun's no-op announcement, Feb 01, 2005

Outside Solaris, few or no free software packages use that license [the CDDL] --and Sun has not said it won't sue us for implementing the same techniques in our own free software.

The Free Standards Group has decided to move away from a single, core LSB (Linux Standards Base) specification, and is instead going to break this down into different modules that can be combined to give a server or desktop LSB standard.

Intec Automation is shipping a $200 credit-card sized SBC (single-board computer) small enough to embed in actuators and tight enclosures, yet powerful enough to run uClinux.

The low-cost computer will have a 14-inch color screen, AMD chips, and will run Linux software, Mr. Negroponte said during an interview Friday with Red Herring at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

A bitter struggle for control of The Canopy Group has erupted in dueling allegations of greed, deceit and manipulation of its aged and purportedly failing founder, Utah technology legend Ray Noorda.

KDE Dot News recently spoke with some prominent people from the Kontact and Kolab projects. We talked about how both projects got started and how they have evolved.

Unix-like systems, such as Linux and BSD, run server software, including the MySQL database, as a separate user, shielding many critical system functions from exploitation by such a worm.

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