Same Slime, Different Day, Mar 22, 2007

More unpleasant insinuations, as you may have noticed by Paul McDougall on Information Week with the unbiased (ha ha) title, "IBM Helps Fund Web Hosting For Anti-SCO Site Groklaw." Yessir. No point of view there. What a stretching of facts to suit a purpose!

Every year, Novell holds its annual tradeshow, which it calls Brainshare, in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year, the company has had a much smaller, but possibly more raucuous, companion, across the street.

Am I the only one who finds Novell's continued backtracking and silliness over its patent scheme with Microsoft reprehensible?

A small, Linux router distribution for x86 has added QoS (quality-of-service) management features claimed capable of classifying packets regardless of port.

Why should you put up with expensive and buggy software, when you can get a stable and modern operating system and excellent programs for free?

Open source community members expect the long-awaited GPL 3 (or at least another draft of it) to be unveiled this Saturday at a Free Software Foundation meeting in Cambridge, Mass.

When Red Hat released the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktop, the company fixed nearly 50 vulnerabilities, including some "critical" bugs.

Richard Stallman may not have been at Novell's BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, but with some help from his friend Bruce Perens he was determined to lodge his objections to Novell's controversial deal with Microsoft.

On March 21, KDE e.V, the non-profit organization behind the popular KDE desktop environment, announced its schedule to complete its next version, 4.0. If all goes well, we should see a release of KDE 4.0 this Fall.

It's not every day that you see a Microsoft employee demonstrating Microsoft software running natively on Linux. Yet that's exactly what happened at AJAXWorld here, as Brad Abrams, group program manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET AJAX (codenamed Atlas) did today.

The One Laptop Per Child program reported today that after 303 builds, it finally has a satisfactory version of its Red Hat Linux-based Sugar operating system that is considered stable, according to OLPC president for software and content Walter Bender.

Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison announced the company's first prominent Linux customer Tuesday: Yahoo. But Red Hat hasn't been pushed aside at the Internet company.

While Novell's controversial patent deal with Microsoft got a lot of attention at the company's annual BrainShare conference here this week, CEO Ron Hovsepian is unapologetic about the move.

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