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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
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Of what use is an operating system if all it does is to make you look forward to the next release - simply because umpteen bugs have been introduced by all the new features in the current version?
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
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A few days back, the New York Times online ran what was, for many, a sensational headline about Sun's Solaris: "Is Sun's Solaris on its deathbed?" While the piece was not written by its own staff, the fact that what many still consider to be a newspaper with some credibility ran with such a story did evoke plenty of reaction.
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
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Discussions about free and open source software can arouse strong emotions. That's something I've known for many years but one often tends to forget these things in the rush of daily life.
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
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From the time the Ubuntu distribution was first released nearly four years ago, the people behind it have tried to never put a foot wrong. Every single decision about the distribution has been geared to try and satisfy both their own brand of users and the general FOSS community.
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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In the wake of the Firefox EULA issue, the well-known GNU/Linux news accumulation website, Linux Today, ran a very short editorial which came to the rather hurried conclusion that the free operating system does not need what it characterised as "slick marketing."
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 |
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Ubuntu lovers are all worked up - and this time it's due to the appearance of an end user licence agreement in the next version of their beloved distribution which is scheduled to be released in October.
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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It's probably a sign of the times we live in that the release of a browser by a commercial organisation like Google merits significantly more coverage than the approaching 25th anniversary of the organisation that gave rise to the free and open source software movement.
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
Well, well, well! We seem to be going on a crusade here at iTWire - the old W vs L battle. The Windows is better than Linux creed - which I think is another way of proffering reasons why marketing is better than technology.
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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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