Is Grandma’s Linux called Mac OS X?, Oct 24, 2007

This morning I came across an interesting post by Dwight Silverman (TechBlog). Here Dwight is thoughts related to the trouble he encountered trying to get VMware Tools to run on Ubuntu loaded into a Fusion virtual machine on a Mac.

Trolltech's popular Qtopia graphical application framework for Linux-powered devices has gained a commercial font plug-in from long-time font specialist Bitstream Inc. The plug-in's integrated "Bitstream Font Fusion" rendering engine is faster, uses less memory, and offers higher quality than Qtopia's native fonts, Bitstream claims.

Linux users from around the world are filling out the Linux Foundation's desktop survey. But what John Cherry, the foundation's director of global Linux workgroups, wants to know is, "Where are the responses from the North America?"

If you have decided against, selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of your old computer - see part 1 -- then here are a few more ideas for putting it to good use.

Ctek Inc. has opened up its SkyRouter broadband wireless data routing platform to Linux device developers, with a family of wireless router development kits. The company's 5100 and 5200 series kits include CDMA radios and run Linux 2.6 on an Axis Etrax SoC (system-on-chip).

It's great to be king (aka "Oracle"), but apparently the peasants are secretly in revolt. According to a survey of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) [PDF], open source adoption is rampant within the rank-and-file of Oracle users...including widespread adoption of MySQL.

Linux users - you've just got to love them. Utter anything close to an adverse comment about the Linux distributions they use and boy, do they hit you with a lot of verbal insults. Say a few nice things about the same distribution and you become number one on their list of "people who make this earth a worthwhile place in which to live."

As GNU/Linux becomes more popular, the motives behind its inceptions are often forgotten. Linux is a free operating system, but its broadening userbase perceives this freedom as pertaining to cost, not rights and liberty. It's important to step back and remind ourselves of the purpose and importance of distributions which try to make a difference, sometimes at the cost of ease of installation and use.

Open-source tools are finding their way into the stack, but few support mission-critical functions.

2.6.24-rc1 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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