2006 June

My first reaction is to question “Why”? After that, I suppose that Red Hat believes that this will work to increase their user base somehow.

Wow, this is certainly one rough way to make a statement with a company! Personally, I am skeptical about the value of firing these guys. Obviously they have done fairly well thus far, why fire them?

I think that we are going to see one very serious trend here: Microsoft users giving the easy to use distros a very serious look. While some of them may cost money, there are still plenty of cool free options, too.

In a word - sweet. Stratus Technologies is taking the no prisoners approach with regard to the server market and I suspect will kick some serious butt with their 64-bit server Linux for the enterprise.

Linux continues to make great improvements in stability and usability. But there is no doubt in my mind that there are still significant fragmentation issues that need to be addressed.

“We’ve come a long way, baby!” Over the past few years the Linux kernel has jumped thought many hoops, improving every time. But I feel that it was 2.6 that really broke the mold overall.

Xandros has come out with a serious new release. I am still waiting to hear back from my contact at the press office on a copy for review, but until then, here is their press release for Xandros Linux Desktop Home Edition.

Personally, I don’t believe the impact of mobile Linux will be felt right away. Then again, I’ve been completely wrong before.

For most of us, this would consist of MythTV. However this option definately seems to present some serious possibilities of its own.

Why would you want a PC running Linux on your wrist? I guess it depends on what you are looking for in a mobile device.

Oh this can’t be good. It seems like anyone worth a damn is leaving Microsoft! First Scoble and now Taylor.

With all that we hear on Linux bootable CDs, it’s good to know that the BSD crowd has not been forgotten.

Here is a neat trick or “hack” to enable you to become very popular with little work on your part…

I’m sorry to report that Mandriva (Mandrake) has never really “wowed” me enough to drip SuSE. Still, there are some strengths to be noted…

We hear all the time about people switching from Windows to Linux. But how often do you see people move from the Mac over to Linux? Ah ha, I thought not…

Boy, this is nuts. I just can’t believe that we already have a Linux-based smart phone operating system in place. How cool is this?

Hey, just so long as we are not on the same sort of timeline as Microsoft, then I have no real problem with this.

I’m a huge open source guy. I have done public speaking on its behalf and have even gone so far as to pass out bootable CDs with the Linux OS for all to try. Having said this, Oo still has a long way to go in a number of areas. It’s great, but I am [...]

I’ve tried Nexuiz and to be honest, it’s actually pretty cool. As a gamer who prefers to run his games natively, this provides a great alternative to the FPS’ in the Windows world.

Yes, the other alternative to Skype have sucked many times over and this has been frustrating to many. Well, it looks like that is about to change!