items tagged with GNU/Linux
Next Debian release will not follow time-based freeze
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-30 20:21:06
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has announced that it will not be following a time-based system for freezes for its next release, Squeeze.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-30 20:21:06
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has announced that it will not be following a time-based system for freezes for its next release, Squeeze.
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Debian to adopt time-based releases
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-28 20:52:53
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has decided to adopt time-based development freezes from now on, on a two-year cycle.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-28 20:52:53
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has decided to adopt time-based development freezes from now on, on a two-year cycle.
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Microsoft claims no GPL violation in Linux submission after all
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-28 07:30:43
Seattle software giant, Microsoft, has asserted despite press saying otherwise last week's 22,000 line submission to the Linux kernel was not motivated by any perceived GPL violation. Yet, do the facts bare out? Does the argument really stand to scrutiny?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-28 07:30:43
Seattle software giant, Microsoft, has asserted despite press saying otherwise last week's 22,000 line submission to the Linux kernel was not motivated by any perceived GPL violation. Yet, do the facts bare out? Does the argument really stand to scrutiny?
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Microsoft contributes to Linux kernel
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-20 12:23:22
Even the most ardent open source advocate may find they have Microsoft code on their Linux box in the near future following a surprise kernel submission on Monday. No, it’s not April 1st.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-20 12:23:22
Even the most ardent open source advocate may find they have Microsoft code on their Linux box in the near future following a surprise kernel submission on Monday. No, it’s not April 1st.
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FSF says Microsoft Mono move full of loopholes
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-17 11:47:26
The Free Software Foundation has described Microsoft's extension of its community promise to the two ECMA standards 334 and 335 as being "full of loopholes and nowhere near enough to make (the use of) C# safe."
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-17 11:47:26
The Free Software Foundation has described Microsoft's extension of its community promise to the two ECMA standards 334 and 335 as being "full of loopholes and nowhere near enough to make (the use of) C# safe."
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Australian Linux users finally have tax return satisfaction
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-15 20:00:29
As much as Linux users might desire to live in a world without Windows plans can be thwarted by a necessary piece of Windows-only software. This year the Australian Tax Office e-tax tax return system is no longer one of these.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-15 20:00:29
As much as Linux users might desire to live in a world without Windows plans can be thwarted by a necessary piece of Windows-only software. This year the Australian Tax Office e-tax tax return system is no longer one of these.
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Mono: Why is Debian resorting to spin?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-14 21:36:27
Gone are the days when the Debian GNU/Linux Project had a spokesman whose utterances could be taken at face value.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-14 21:36:27
Gone are the days when the Debian GNU/Linux Project had a spokesman whose utterances could be taken at face value.
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Chrome OS: Nice curveball from left field, Google
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-10 18:09:42
In times like these, when most of the world thinks of its pocketbook before shelling out even loose change, is it logical for a highly successful company to announce that it will be moving in a direction it has never gone before?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-10 18:09:42
In times like these, when most of the world thinks of its pocketbook before shelling out even loose change, is it logical for a highly successful company to announce that it will be moving in a direction it has never gone before?
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The necessity of a Google Linux operating system
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-09 08:44:46
Search giant Google has announced the development of Chrome OS. This is a significant announcement and means good things for Linux.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-09 08:44:46
Search giant Google has announced the development of Chrome OS. This is a significant announcement and means good things for Linux.
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Mono: Microsoft community promise inadequate, says RMS
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-08 19:39:30
Microsoft's bid to dispel the patent fears surrounding the open source .NET clone, Mono, has met with little enthusiasm from free software advocates.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-08 19:39:30
Microsoft's bid to dispel the patent fears surrounding the open source .NET clone, Mono, has met with little enthusiasm from free software advocates.
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Ubuntu says yes to Mono, SFLC says no
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-30 19:17:06
The Ubuntu technical board has announced that it sees no reason to consider a dependency on Mono as an issue when suggesting applications to be included in the default set included in the GNU/Linux distribution.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-30 19:17:06
The Ubuntu technical board has announced that it sees no reason to consider a dependency on Mono as an issue when suggesting applications to be included in the default set included in the GNU/Linux distribution.
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GNOME 3.0 may have more Mono apps
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-28 21:08:39
The next major version of the GNOME desktop environment, version 3.0, may contain more than the one Mono-dependent application than it currently does, according to GNOME Foundation member Dave Neary.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-28 21:08:39
The next major version of the GNOME desktop environment, version 3.0, may contain more than the one Mono-dependent application than it currently does, according to GNOME Foundation member Dave Neary.
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Ubuntu tech board plays down Mono IP concerns
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-26 19:25:14
The Ubuntu technical board appears to have decided that there is no significant cause for IP concern over Mono, the contentious clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-26 19:25:14
The Ubuntu technical board appears to have decided that there is no significant cause for IP concern over Mono, the contentious clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment.
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Ubuntu may increase Mono-dependent apps
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-24 18:34:43
The next release of the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution may include a third Mono-dependent application by default, a spokesman for Canonical, the parent company for Ubuntu, told iTWire today.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-24 18:34:43
The next release of the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution may include a third Mono-dependent application by default, a spokesman for Canonical, the parent company for Ubuntu, told iTWire today.
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Enter ext4, the filesystem of the future
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-23 18:47:48
The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-23 18:47:48
The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install.
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Mono: Shielding the facts
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-21 13:13:29
Should FOSS users be concerned about the software they use, in case it opens them up to copyright, trademark or patent claims? Or should such concerns be left exclusively to developers?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-21 13:13:29
Should FOSS users be concerned about the software they use, in case it opens them up to copyright, trademark or patent claims? Or should such concerns be left exclusively to developers?
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Is Xandros a Linux distro, a marketing machine or a Microsoft stooge?
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-15 02:20:28
You may know of Xandros Linux; for many people exposure came through the Eee PC, with this being the distro chosen by Linux-turncoat ASUS. Yet, what is Xandros' stance on open source software? Might Xandros be a thinly-veiled Microsoft tout as Linspire reborn?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-15 02:20:28
You may know of Xandros Linux; for many people exposure came through the Eee PC, with this being the distro chosen by Linux-turncoat ASUS. Yet, what is Xandros' stance on open source software? Might Xandros be a thinly-veiled Microsoft tout as Linspire reborn?
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OpenSolaris: how long will it be with us?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-09 00:19:15
OpenSolaris came out with its third release last week and within a year there seems to have been some pretty good progress.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-09 00:19:15
OpenSolaris came out with its third release last week and within a year there seems to have been some pretty good progress.
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What is linux.com trying to achieve?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-02 22:50:14
What exactly does the Linux Foundation hope to achieve by running a parallel site, linux.com? Is it a bid to shape the debate around GNU/Linux, something which companies are increasingly trying to do for their own products?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-02 22:50:14
What exactly does the Linux Foundation hope to achieve by running a parallel site, linux.com? Is it a bid to shape the debate around GNU/Linux, something which companies are increasingly trying to do for their own products?
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Even OpenSUSE recognises drawbacks of Mono
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-02 20:17:34
Mention Mono in a story and you are certain to draw two kinds of readers - the followers, those who have drunk the kool-aid ladled out by Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza, and the detractors, who realise that it could cause them patent headaches a few years hence.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-02 20:17:34
Mention Mono in a story and you are certain to draw two kinds of readers - the followers, those who have drunk the kool-aid ladled out by Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza, and the detractors, who realise that it could cause them patent headaches a few years hence.
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