Software developer Red Hat has opened an office in SA in a bid to woo more companies from brand name software to free-to-use open-source systems.
Since most legitimate vendors are no longer able to sell or install Windows XP after June 30, I have an option for you: Use Linux. That's right, retain that XP look and feel goodness without violating any rules or creating other problems for yourself by using the little known XPDE (XP Desktop Environment).
The laptop will probably retail for $499 as configured when it arrives in September, but a Linux version for $399 should also be available if Microsoft isn't your thing.
LinuxWorld is under way in San Francisco this week (see Wired’s coverage) and gOS, the Linux distro that made a splash after Walmart started selling gOS-equipped PCs, is back with a new release.
Ubuntu had a hectic week during LinuxWorld, with several different partnership announcements throughout the week.
I have some screenshots from an old Caldera OpenLinux Lite CD that a member still had in his possession to show you. They disprove certain allegations SCO has made regarding Linux, I think, in the IBM litigation. For example, SCO claimed that it never released anything under the GPL. And it tried to allege that some headers and other features were their property and that Linux infringes them. I will show you differently.
We’ve hired a new guy to run the LDN, Brian Proffitt. He’s been hard at work since the moment he started, asking lots of questions and building a new infrastructure in an amazing amount of time. And now, you can see the results of his initial work.
It was horrifying to read that a private company, in this case Microsoft, has a database record of “nearly half of the world’s instant-messaging traffic.”
To my knowledge, the government is not even allowed to monitor domestic instant-messaging without a court order. What information did Microsoft collect?
