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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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At a time when most companies are happy if the balance sheet does not show any red ink, Red Hat Linux has bucked the trend. Its stock price leapt 32 percent last week compared to that a year ago, during a week when technology stocks overall fell by 2.6 percent.
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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What do you do when you are 20, passionate about open source and want nothing better during the long summer holidays than to be involved in activities surrounding FOSS?
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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The global economic crisis is taking its toll on many technology companies and Mandriva, the Linux company based in France, has now taken a hit.
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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The financial crisis enveloping the world will probably hit sponsorship funds for the forthcoming Australian national Linux conference, but registrations for the event, which begins on January 19, 2009, have been strong, says the man who holds the purse string.
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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Not everyone who uses Linux today has done so because of carefully reasoning that it is a better operating system than the others on offer. People enter the Linux fold due to different reasons and those who stay there go through several stages of growth.
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Saturday, 22 November 2008 |
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Windows takes so long to boot up and shut down that some employers have started cutting pay for the 15 to 30 minutes that employees take to boot up their workstations at the start of the day and then shut them down when their shifts end.
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
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I'm not one of those highly vocal GNU/Linux users referred to by my editor Stan Beer a few days back. But then I am definitely one of the "tinority" because I do use the operating system on my desktop - and anywhere else that I need computing power.
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
Most of us get a chance to see Linux in action at the desktop or single server level. Some of us use Linux on mobiles and other little gizmos without even realising that the penguin is doing the lifting.
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
Novell is getting increasingly desperate for sales. One can come to no other conclusion on reading the latest offer from the company which once dominated the world of PC networking.
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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Companies which sell GNU/Linux distributions could increase the profile and sales of their products in one way: install them on top-tier laptops, tune them up so that everything runs like a dream and then hand them out to those who write about GNU/Linux.
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
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Over at iTWire, we are often in the position where we disagree with a fellow writer and say so. This morning, I found my colleague Davey Winder's piece "Opinion: why Linux sucks at being user friendly" to be a litle too general to pass without comment.
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
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First, it was the Debian people who were jealous of the success of Ubuntu. They, at least, had some reason to be annoyed. Now it appears there are others, from other distributions, who are envious too, and try to guise their envy under a veil of concern for GNU/Linux as a whole.
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
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Why do people climb Mount Everest? Well, because it's there, I guess. Why do so many people dislike George Bush? Saves a lot of time, I guess.
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