WhatsinYourBox.org is reporting that NVIDIA has released the long awaited update to its graphics driver which finally supports Linux Kernel 2.6. Previous to this 2.6 support was only available through modifications at minion.de. More information available at the link above.
The SCO Group has confirmed that it sent a letter to all 535 members of the US Congress which claimed that Linux and open-source software is a threat to the security and economy of the US.
The letter, dated 8 January, was published on the internet this week by an open-source lobbying organisation called the Open Source and Industry Alliance (OSAIA). The letter states that the commoditising influence of open-source software such as Linux is bad for the US economy and argues that open source also skirts export controls governing commercial products.
Even though most Linux users have treated Linux as an operating system for their x86 white boxes, Linux runs equally well on PowerPC machines. This article looks at Linux on the PowerPC and the appealing range of PPC machines produced by Apple, where the option of using Linux is of great value to many users.
Hewlett-Packard garnered $75 million in revenue in 2003 with a program that encourages customers of rival Sun Microsystems to move to HP servers that run Linux, the company said Wednesday.
The program, which offers $25,000 worth of migration services, attracted 50 customers since it launched in October, Efrain Rovira, HP's worldwide director of Linux marketing, said at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
"We think that's a great turnout," Rovira said. All 50 customers were new to HP, he said.
L33tdawg: Much thanks to shoegoo for the link.
I came accross this page the other day when I searched Sony's site for Linux. I was hoping to find out about support for Linux on Sony laptops, but instead I stumbled onto something much more interesting. Apparently Sony contracted popular embeded Linux solutuions team MontaVista Software to create a system to run some of their HDTV sets. On the site mentioned above are downloads for the source of the kernels running these televisions. I have searched around and I only find two pages alluding to Sony using Linux to run televisions.
The next release of the Linux kernel will be named after an Australian animal following a frenzied bidding war at Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide.
As part of the Penguin Dinner held for attendees on the Friday night at the conference, organisers auctioned off a T-shirt signed by all the participating speakers, as well as Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
I run FreeBSD on my computers. A lot of my friends run Linux, or at least one of the distributions of it. Naturally, then, we agree that a Unix-style operating system is the right choice, but we disagree on which to use.
It's been my impression (which I'm not interested in having long drawn-out debates about) that the BSD communit{y,ies}, in general, understand Linux far better than the Linux communit{y,ies} understand BSD. Thus, this rant; as a BSD person, I want to try to explain how BSD works in a way that soaks in to Linux people.
With the advent of iTunes, there has been the question of how to serve the music using Linux. A method has been devised to rather simply create a linux-based iTunes server. The server will use applications already known to the OS along with some others taken from Apple. Here are the intructions with a bit of explanation: In order for your Linux server to be identified as serving iTunes you must install the Apple Rendezvous multicast DNS advertiser (painless free registration required). The protocol used by Apple to share music is the daapd protocol.
Linux has made huge strides in terms of useability in recent years, hardware auto-detection is getting better, kernels are improving, installations are smoother. Joe or Jane public can pretty much get some sort of Linux desktop running on most modern PC's. So surely its a small step from here to acceptability in the big world. Well probably not.
LinuxQuestions.org has announced the winners of the 2003 Member's Choice Awards. "Voting has closed for the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards and the winners have been decided. The Members Choice awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products in a variety of categories including Linux Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year. The polls were open from November 15th to January 10th.
