2005 April

Yup, this news about China’s biggest bank moving over to Linux is likely to be one of the biggest ’switch ads’ you will see in this life time! Being the bank is working at transitioning some 20,000 national branches over to the Linux OS, I’d say their IT team has their work cut out for [...]

Hey, just because you are a happy Windows user does not mean that Open Source is not for you. Take the OSSwin project for instance. I feel that this is a great example of just how many OSS apps there truly are for the ‘other’ OS.

Here is one interpretation of the perfect Linux setup. Definitely differs a bit from mine, I can see how they might decide that this is the way to go.

To me, this speaks volumes of Linux as a choice for government agencies. If Red Hat is good enough for the US DOD, then I think it is definitely good enough for the rest of us as well.

Tomorrow morning and afternoon Linuxfest Northwest will be streaming exclusive presentations from Google, Real Networks, and IBM among others. Broadcasts for the day include Chuck Gray of IBM at 11:30am and Chris DiBona of Google at 1pm PST.

Man, it seems like embedded Linux is quickly catching up to server and desktop Linux. As a matter of fact, if things keep going at this pace…we may see embedded Linux surpass the other forms of Linux.

Well I’ll be dog, er, I mean darn. Yellow Dog Linux has gone 64 bit on us! This will prove to be really cool once the onslaught of apps requiring a 64 bit platform start flooding the Open Source world.

If you are looking for Cisco-specific administration tools on the quick and easy, then you might want to give this article a once over. COSI or Cisco-centric Open Source Community is working to bring Open Source enthusiasts Cisco-specific tools that will help you to ‘get the job done’.

OK, so you are seriously looking at going with MythTV. But are you truly ready to dive into this project? One place to start off at is to read this article over and see if you have what it takes to get the Myth out of MythTV.

We installed the PC-BSD desktop FreeBSD distro on a spare box in our office yesterday, and we found it pretty much to be as advertised. The GUI installer made installation a snap, and KDE 3.4 (complete with sound) worked right out of the box.

I think that for the first time in a long time, HP might be onto something with the idea mixing both Open Source apps and those that are for sale.

The funny thing is that I actually predicted something very similar to this a few months back. Apparently, KYCY-AM in San Francisco is dropping their current Talk Radio format and instead going with a Podcasting layout.

Looks like there is a nice sized Linux get together coming to the UK here really soon. In addition to the great LAN gaming that will be going on, we will also get to see a number of great speakers there as well. Check it out!

Finding that it is hard to keep track of the different distributions as they come out? You might consider looking to LinuxTracker for some assistance in this area.

Oh wow, say it’s not so! According to this report, there could be some lag in the Open Source community when comes to trusted computing. The Linux crowd however, is looking to change this.

Boy, after reading this article about Mobilinux, it sounds like this project is really coming together in a very big way!

OK, when you first look at this it appears to be a lot of work to get operating correctly. Well to be honest, I would say you are totally right. Still, it is comforting to know that we can at least have this option when wanting to send and receive files from your Bluetooth phone [...]

This is an interesting thought. Do Open Source bugs really matter all that much? While they seem of little importance to the devs being that anyone can come along and fix them if they so choose, I think it matters to the end user. Still, I do see the point that this article tries to [...]

While it’s important to stick with a given distribution’s packages, that doesn’t mean you have to be trapped by their package manager. Slackware’s package manager, for example, is rather simple and lacks a lot of functionality. That’s what led me to seek out packages such as Slackcurrent and its GUI front end KSlackCheck. Today, however, [...]

If you’ve been interested in running FreeBSD as a desktop system, then you need to take a look at PC-BSD. Currently under development (version 0.5a is available as of this writing), the distribution aims to create a system based on FreeBSD’s stability with a desktop suitable for both home and business use.