Linux Online - News from Feb 03, 2005

News from Feb 03, 2005

Grocer rings up savings with Linux cash registers, Feb 03, 2005

The new Linux-based POS systems have been installed in about two-thirds of the company's 140-plus supermarkets in New England and New York.

Utility Computing Still A Work In Progress On Linux, Feb 03, 2005

As Linux running on x86 servers continues to grow in corporate data centers, questions remain as to whether the open-source operating system introduces a higher level of management complexity than the proprietary Unix systems it replaces

Linux Law Center Aids Open Source Developers, Feb 03, 2005

The Open Source Development Labs has raised $4 million to provide the seed money for the Software Freedom Law Center, which is based in New York.

HP visionary: Next steps to extending Linux in your enterprise, Feb 03, 2005

Looking for the next step in moving more enterprise applications to Linux? Then, step lively and implement Linux-friendly and/or open source application servers, said Terence Sherlock, Hewlett-Packard strategic technical director.

Kernel release: 2.6.11-rc3, Feb 03, 2005

2.6.11-rc3 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.
Files added: 667
Files changed: 5440
Files removed: 153

Red Hat gets serious about government, Feb 03, 2005

Linux vendor Red Hat, which is delving deeper into attracting public sector customers, has created a government business unit.

Feds Turn To Panasas For High Storage Performance, Feb 03, 2005

"A single calculation might run for a year, and no single machine could stay up that long, so we use a Linux cluster with 12,000 processors to process many terabytes of data in very short times," says Gary Grider, group leader for high-performance systems integration at Los Alamos.

World's Largest Linux Migration Gets Major Boost, Feb 03, 2005

The world's largest Linux migration is speeding ahead, with the German national railway announcing today it has successfully moved all of its 55,000 Lotus Notes users onto the open-source operating system.

Centrino wireless mini-PCI cards gain stable GPL Linux driver, Feb 03, 2005

An open source project has achieved the first stable release of a Linux driver for Intel's mini-PCI wireless 802.11b/g adapters. The IPW2200 project, founded by Intel, is offering the 1.00 version of a GPL'd driver for Intel's PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915BG miniPCI adapters for free download.

Courts measure justice with Linux, Feb 03, 2005

Legal professionals in NSW will soon access NSW court reference material via the new Judicial Information Research System (JIRS) application developed entirely in-house with Linux and open source technologies.

Do patents threaten your business?, Feb 03, 2005

The main noise against software patenting in Europe has come from the open source community, but the threat of patent-infringement lawsuits hangs over all companies

Rewriting GPL No Easy Task, Feb 03, 2005

In 1991, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, rewrote the GNU General Public License and simply put the final version out over e-mail; that was the last time the GPL has seen significant change.

Torvalds: waiting to see Sun's Open Solaris, Feb 03, 2005

Linus Torvalds claims he is taking Sun Microsystems seriously -- Sun plans to offer an open source version of its Solaris 10 operating system -- but the Linux creator and chief developer says he'll reserve judgment until code becomes available.

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