The real point of Unbreakable Linux: breaking Red Hat, Feb 07, 2007

As I look at the situation, it becomes ever clearer to me that Unbreakable Linux is really not a serious business operating system offering. It's simply Oracle's attempt to break Red Hat.

Phonon is designed to take some of the complications out of writing multimedia applications in KDE 4, and ensure that these applications will work on a multitude of platforms and sound architectures.

Swedish Armed Forces will start replacing Windows NT with Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its core IT infrastructure.

The real question, five years from now, is whether someone wants to adopt Microsoft's business model or Red Hat's - Microsoft's won't exist for any but Microsoft. The proprietary model is a relic of a giddy, short-lived past.

If Windows and Vista and all that are really better than Linux and the alternatives, why keep playing games with the facts? Why bribe bloggers? Why pay people to set the record straight? Why promote biased surveys?

Some years ago Linux creator Linux Torvalds famously compared changing operating systems to “performing brain surgery on yourself”. I’ve quoted him often because so many people seem to have unrealistic expectations when they pick up a Linux DVD or CD-ROM.

The Open Source Consortium (OSC) has slammed the BBC over plans to lock online TV viewers into Microsoft products.

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