Where the heck is Etch?, Feb 23, 2007

I asked Barth and Anthony Towns, the Debian Project Leader for their thoughts on Debian's delays, and when we might expect to see Etch released. At the time this article was written, I had not heard back from either of them.

Who said you can't make money by supporting free community-based Linux distributions?

Version 1.0 of NTFS-3g, a free NTFS driver for Linux, has been released. Project manager Szabolcs Szakacsits has declared the driver ready for productive use

A commercial supplier of open-source routing and firewall software has transitioned its community-supported firewall/router Linux distribution to a Debian base.

South Africa announced Thursday its plan to use open source software on government-run computer systems.

I chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop because of the general level of buzz plus the higher likelihood that businesses may try this (business-oriented) distro.

A&D Electronics is offering a flash storage key that may actually be bombproof. Aimed at the military market, and priced at $700 for a 1GB unit, the IronDrive was designed to offer protection from "moisture, vibration, shock, caustic agents, EMI, and nuclear effects," the company claims.

A U.S. federal jury found that Microsoft Corp. infringed audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent and should pay $1.52 billion in damages, the No. 1 software maker said on Thursday.

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