OSDL looks beyond Linus Torvalds, Mar 24, 2006

The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) is looking beyond its existing sponsorship of Linux creator Linus Torvalds with the formation of a Technical Advisory Board.

Perhaps, we must consider, Microsoft has far less reason to be perturbed by Linux than everyone thinks.

IBM and Novell's inking of contracts to formally become members of the NSW government's Linux and open source panel should finally start delivering some real competition in state procurement.

Fans of the popular Linux software program have long fretted that software giant Microsoft will attack Linux by claiming the free program violates Microsoft's patents.

A second test version of the next generation of Samba has been released to the public, with numerous bug fixes and improvements included.

I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the Macintoshes in our digital media lab and installing Ubuntu in its place.

... to sum it all up, this is not a release that will excite many end-users, but for developers it's a different story.

Microsoft Corp is using scare tactics to exert pressure on PC vendors not to explore the potential of desktop Linux, according to Novell Inc president and chief operating officer, Ron Hovsepian.

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