Open source education, Jun 09, 2006

Graham Glass wrote a blog entry this week that touched on two of my favorite themes: open source and education. In the middle of a project based on the red-hot Ruby on Rails platform, he took time out to explain how he found, and worked around, a Rails limitation. Digging down to the roots of the problem took six hours of investigation. Crafting the work-around took just six lines of code.

Linux now forms a quarter of Dell's server business and is growing fast, the company says. Should Microsoft be worried?

As the boundaries keep getting fuzzier between so-called 'systems management' and 'network management' (especially in Grid computing discussions) - it's become clear to me that Linux is the breeding ground where the networking innovation is happening.

Many people in the Linux community know that its an operating system built to handle the most mission-critical of jobs. In fact, Linux is so stable, it can handle the most mission-critical job of all: managing the human heart.

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