Linux-Kongress: Linux Foundation Declares OS X a Luxury Jail
Oct 09, 2008As a director of the Linux Foundation and a Linux SCSI developer, James Bottomley opened the Linux-Kongress in Hamburg, Germany this week with a keynote investigating the commonalities and differences among the various Open Source operating systems. He describes Linux as the liveliest variant among them.
more »Linus Torvalds: His Own Blog
Oct 08, 2008A few days ago Finnish kernel developer and Linux founder Linus Torvalds started his own blog on Blogger.com.
more »Interview with Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps About MySQL, Java, OpenJDK and more
Oct 03, 2008Simon Phipps is responsible for about 750 Open Source projects at Sun Microsystems. Linux Magazine Online spoke with the British developer about topics such as Java and the newly acquired MySQL.
more »Richard Stallman: Cloud Computing a Trap
Oct 01, 2008As an original founder of Open Source, Richard Stallman cautions in an interview with the British Guardian newspaper about the repercussions of cloud computing. His main objection: dependency and loss of control.
more »Doghouse: Player Piano Rolls Alas, my love, you do me wrong
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more »Free Software Projects An up-to-date look at free software and its makers
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more »Video: Burton Group Advisor on Open Source for Corporations
Sep 29, 2008In the video, Linux Pro Magazine speaks to Chris Howard about the Open Source market. Howard is a leading advisor with the Burton Group, an IT marketing and consulting company for customers with more than 2000 people on staff.
more »Richard Stallman's GNU Project Turns 25
Sep 29, 2008The GNU Project celebrated its 25th birthday on September 27, 2008. With its GCC compiler and bash shell, GNU was ever at the forefront of today's Linux distribution. To kick off the celebration, British humorist Stephen Fry appears in a video in defense of free software.
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