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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
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The release of Google's Chrome browser is a welcome development for those who belong to the ABM category - the Anyone But Microsoft group.
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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Last year, curious over the hype that was flooding the internet in the wake of the release of Windows Vista, I decided to turn masochist and inflict a 14-day Vista trial on myself. I found the operating system much worse than even its worst critic.
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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A little more than a week ago, Microsoft announced it would invest an additional $US100 million in Novell for the purchase of certificates which customers can redeem for SUSE Linux service and support.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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There was once a time when the now-defunct Open Source Development Labs, then the employer of Linus Torvalds, used to style itself as the centre of gravity of Linux. Not long after, the edifice toppled under its own weight - probably the force of gravity shifted. Or maybe the restructuring it had to undergo in 2005 and 2006 was the cause.
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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Another stalwart of the One Laptop per Child Project has gone his own
way - after telling project founder Nicholas Negroponte that he
(Negroponte) had failed to go beyond the stage of a prototype.
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Statistics are a useful tool when it comes to puting flesh on bare statements. Linux Weekly News editor Jonathan Corbett, for example, puts out an annual report called the Kernel Report is which he uses statistics about kernel development to illustrate trends.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
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As the Debian GNU/Linux project marks 15 years of existence, how much has it diverged from the intentions with which it set sail? As times change and people correspondingly change, motivating factors often tend to change and this is reflected in changes in most software projects. Is this true for Debian?
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Ten years from now, if Linux has managed to gain something like 10 per cent or more of the desktop market and continues to maintain its lead in the server market, one person would have to take a goodly share of the credit - Mark Shuttleworth.
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Professionals who work on the basis of billable hours rarely take the time out to write an article for publication unless they have a valid reason for doing so. That's why I'm generally a bit sceptical when lawyers come out with articles that attempt to make a case against the use of free and open source software.
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
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A little more than three months after he became leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, Steve McIntyre is beginning to realise that it can be a little scary at times.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Software engineers are often touted as people whose logic is excellent. That's why I'm amazed when some of these so-called virtuosos always indulge in personal attacks when they spot something with which they disagree.
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
Another step was taken this week in the tortuous case which the SCO Group initiated against IBM in March 2003 - but by no means is an end anywhere in sight to the company's misery. Unlike Neil Armstrong's historic statement, it is not a giant step for anyone.
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
When a genre of software is estimated to account for 15 percent of the total revenue generated by a given sector of the IT industry and that total is $A3.5 billion, then it is time to sit up and take notice.
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