BitKeeper and Linux: The end of the road?, Apr 11, 2005

We spoke with the three primary figures involved in the dispute -- Larry McVoy, Linus Torvalds, and Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell -- to learn what happened and whether it could have been avoided.

Ubuntu Linux is still a young distro, and is currently one of the most popular distros on today's Linux scene.

Next Tuesday, non-profit organizations and Open Source experts and advocates in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather together in honor of "Penguin Day" 2005.

Shortly after he joined Microsoft 12 years ago in Washington, D.C., Martin Taylor was tapped to help an executive from Redmond make a sales presentation.

The silver-tongued son of a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist was ready to show his stuff. "I was, what, 23, so I was like, 'Steve, Joe, I don't care, some bigwig from Redmond. I just want to go do this presentation,' " he said.

Two relative newcomers awarded places on the New South Wales government's panel of preferred open-source suppliers have denied their appointments were a token gesture.

Red Hat, the largest distributor of Linux in the world, has unveiled its Enterprise Linux Version 4 in Punjabi.

The first question that enterprises ask when considering a Linux migration is: “Will my current applications run on Linux?”

Sessions about government use of Linux and moves by Fujitsu Computer Systems to let users run Linux and Microsoft Windows on the same hardware supported a growing consensus among industry experts that open-source software, particularly Linux, is here to stay.

LynuxWorks expects to double revenue and increase staffing 30 percent within a year, thanks to an enormous US defense project. The company says its LynxOS-178 operating system was chosen for the Future Combat Systems (FCS) Integrated Computer System (ICS), in part due to Linux binary compatibility.

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