Torvalds: Contributors' boss is not my concern, Feb 12, 2008

Torvalds wasn't concerned about knowing who the contributors were working for: "I know they get paid for doing Linux work and as far as I am concerned, I interact with a person"

The focus of the two-day show at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel will be on the Linux operating system - made to work like the mainframe stalwart Unix but now available for servers and desktop computers of all kinds. But a big part of the SCALE 6X show will be how companies like Google, Ticketmaster and Shopzilla use free, open-source software to build huge businesses.

The operating system was the first thing I had to choose for my server. The choice was between Free/Open Source software (FOSS) and a proprietary system (Windows or Unix). Unix systems include Linux, BSD, Solaris, and a several proprietary Unices. Windows variants include servers based on NT, XP, and so on. If you are thinking of deploying a server, this is your first decision, too.

Heading in a different direction from its main rivals, Ubuntu Linux will use KVM as its primary virtualisation software

Nokia didn't mention the iPhone, but told a disappointed audience at the Mobile World Congress that it is still working on bringing out touch capability to its phones.

[lead Enlightenment developer Carsten Haitzler] sees a big future for Linux in the mobile and embedded space and notes that Enlightenment, with its small memory footprint, is ideal for deployment on such devices.

Several more members of the mobile Linux LiPS Forum are switching allegiance to the LiMo Foundation, this time including board and executive committee members, indicating that LiPS is losing steam.

With open source that can be a very good thing since when security problems are found they can be fixed quickly. That's the case over this last weekend, Feb. 9-10, when a security problem was found, and given a hot fix, in the 2.6.17 to the most recent production Linux kernel, 2.6.24.1.

In a few short weeks, it will be time for national standards bodies to decide whether the Microsoft Office Open XML specification will be accepted as an ISO standard or not.

The bankrupt SCO Group Inc. cut its total work force by 30 workers, or about 26 percent, citing an effort to reduce ongoing operating expenses. The layoffs began on Jan. 31.

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