Sam Varghese
Subscribe to the RSS After flirting with tech from 1989 onwards, Sam Varghese began to experiment with Linux in 1998. A couple of years later, he began using the Debian distribution as a single-boot system for his personal use. From that point onwards his interest grew and he has since written widely about free and open source software, with a great deal of his writings based on his own experiences, rather than anecdotal evidence. Open Sauce will focus on a genre of software that is present everywhere but rarely acknowledged; a genre that has little eye-candy but does most of the heavy lifting; a genre that is designed and written by people whose accomplishments are only occasionally recognised. Above all this blog will follow the KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid.

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Open sauce - A GNU perspective
Mono and Samba: smell the difference, says Allison
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 16 October 2009
Samba and Mono differ in the ways the two projects have chosen to deal with software patents in the implementation, according to renowned Samba developer Jeremy Allison.
 
Linux Foundation bid to lure members
by Sam Varghese   
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
The Linux Foundation will offer discounts from HP, Dell and Lenovo plus a @linux.com email address in a bid to lure individuals to become members.
 
Debian powers robotic sub to victory
by Sam Varghese   
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
A team of students at Cornell University has won a competition for autonomous underwater vehicles, using a robotic submarine running Debian GNU/Linux.
 
De Icaza makes light of Microsoft bid to sell anti-Linux patents
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 09 October 2009
Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
 
Next Debian release with FreeBSD kernel as well
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 09 October 2009
The Debian Project will, for the first time, release a stable version of its distribution running on a FreeBSD kernel when the next version, Squeeze, is released sometime next year.
 
Red Hat boot camp for FOSS teachers
by Sam Varghese   
Thursday, 08 October 2009
The world's biggest free and open source software company will hold a boot camp in Singapore next month for those who teach courses in open source software at institutes of higher learning.
 
Why Matt Zimmerman should quit Canonical
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 02 October 2009
The chief technology officer of Canonical, Matt Zimmerman, has put himself in an untenable position after he took a public stance that a remark made by his boss in a keynote was sexist.

 
Pictures that speak a thousand words
by Sam Varghese   
Thursday, 01 October 2009
A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words. That's one of the truisms in journalism and it has never been misproved.
 
Microsoft malware tool only for legit Windows
by Sam Varghese   
Thursday, 01 October 2009
Eleven years ago, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told an audience that he didn't mind people stealing software as long as they stole his company's software.
 
Shuttleworth employee calls boss's remark sexist
by Sam Varghese   
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
The chief technology officer of Canonical, the company founded by open source entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, has come right out and termed a remark made by his boss at the recent LinuxCon in Portland, Oregon, sexist.
 
Windows 7 YouTube promo falls flat
by Sam Varghese   
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Many years ago, the late Dr Laurence J. Peter set out a principle under his own name; one of its corollaries was that the final professional move by a person or a company was from one of competence to one of incompetence.
 
Ubuntu gets set to mark fifth birthday
by Sam Varghese   
Monday, 28 September 2009
The new kid on the GNU/Linux block is getting long in the tooth. In about three weeks, Ubuntu will be five years old.
 
Geek feminist jumps the gun on Shuttleworth speech
by Sam Varghese   
Friday, 25 September 2009
Open source consultant Kirrily Robert, who runs a blog called Geek Feminism, has taken Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth to task over words he allegedly used in a talk given at a conference.
 
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