The vendor mafia's Linux vendetta, Oct 28, 2005

For all the arguments against Microsoft and its anti-competitive practices, the one thing that really holds Linux back is the complete, embarrassing and possibly negligent support for it by vendors. Microsoft really has nothing to do with it.

[Sun] is opening the "Java Desktop System" to other linux distros, -as a software layer. The company's software VP, John Loiacono told eWeek the company wants Java Desktop System to run "on multiple Linux distributions".

Under the name OpenLogos GlobalWare AG is offering to private individuals, universities and other public institutions a free translation system for Linux. The software can be downloaded from the website of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

Bryant University in Rhode Island was ranked the the "second most connected campus in America" by the Princeton Review in October 2004. The school offers a wide variety of Web services, including online registration and course materials, a digital asset library, and a large interconnected campus, and they're all powered by Linux.

"I don't see Novell going anywhere anytime soon, but if [they] bobble this, I see it reflecting more badly on Novell than on SuSE," King said. "Then, if Novell can't get it together, SuSE may be an interesting bit for another vendor to acquire."

RTM is built on a range of readily-available technologies, with the core components being the Javascript, PHP and Python scripting languages, the C programming language, and the open-source database PostgreSQL. The various pieces fit together on a Linux base, and interaction is done using the XMPP protocol (commonly called 'Jabber') recently adopted by Google in its Google Talk instant messaging application.

2.6.14 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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