IBM Subpoenas Microsoft! Sun! Baystar and HP!, Feb 22, 2006

Hold on to your hats! IBM has subpoenaed Microsoft! And Sun! At last, we're getting to the core of the matter. We're going to get to find out the whole story.

Expect Microsoft vs Linux battle to heat up once again. Stoking the flame of the ongoing war now are intellectual property (IP) issues. The rising threat of third party IP infringement is promising to give a new turn to the entire debate, till now primarily focused on the ownership and security concerns.

SCO was taken out behind the woodshed by Intel a few days ago in one of the more unfriendly court filings in a long and extremely unfriendly case. The 64K question is not what happened, that is more than adequately documented on Groklaw, the real question is why SCO, or its attorneys got so stupid.

Richard M. Stallman, director of the Free Software Foundation, OpenOffice.org developer Michael Meeks, and Xen Project chief architect Ian Pratt will be among the keynote speakers at the sixth annual Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM), set for Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25-26, 2006, in Brussels, Belgium.

The GNU/Linux operating system isn't exactly known for gaming, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any games on it that are worth playing. Recently I installed an array of different titles and, combined with some that I had already played, I've compiled a list of must-have GNU/Linux games (and a few "honorable mentions") to joyously erode your free time.

The fourth alpha release (known as Flight 4) of the upcoming Ubuntu Linux 6.04 "Dapper Drake" is now available for download, the South Africa-based project announced this week. This is the feature-freeze version of Dapper Flight.

Falko Timme will be thirty this year. He's possibly one of the most popular mentors for people wanting to become Linux system administrators on the Internet. His step-by-step tutorials have gained a large readership.

The Army is leaning toward Linux as the operating system for the service’s Future Combat System (FCS) program.

I must say that my first week as a Linux user – or more specifically an Ubuntu user - has been a real education. The first lesson I learnt is that some members of the user community are a really touchy lot, while others are very helpful.

Microsoft's latest rebuff to the European commission's monopoly ruling threatens values at the heart of democracy, critics say.

The next version of GNOME has been designed to make it easier for administrators to deploy the Linux desktop environment in enterprises.

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