With concern rising about SCO's recent legal maneuvers, many organizations are trying
to grasp the exact ramifications this may have on their deployment of GNU/Linux projects.
While there is clearly no solid answer yet, in a special to Open for Business, GNU/Linux
developer, consultant, and author Andrew D. Balsa interviews Tony Iams of D.H. Brown Associates (DHBA)
on the subject.
Wiscore Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan) announced support for incorporating the Xilinx XC95288XL CPLD into uClinux/ARM7-based embedded systems and devices. The support consists of a “CPLD daughter board” that plugs into the expansion connector of Wiscore's NET-Start! platform, an ARM7/uClinux embedded system development kit. The daughter board includes a Xilinx XC95288XL CPLD, a JTAG port, a 7-segment LED, a clock generator, 4 LED Displays, 4 push buttons, 4 slide switches, and a parallel port, Wiscore said.
Armonk, NY, June 5, 2003 — IBM today announced that The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has deployed a new email system running Linux so that its veterinarians and field workers can respond more quickly and efficiently to animals in need of their care. The new mobile email system running on IBM eServer xSeries servers gives the ASPCA, the nation's oldest humane organization, a secure enterprise class messaging infrastructure that allows it's employees to get fast access to mail and data from anywhere.
Embedded system designers using the Linux® operating system (OS) can now
leverage AltiVec™ technology to boost the performance of their networking
and communications applications. Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has created a
downloadable source-code library of AltiVec technology-enabled functions that
are frequently used in the Linux OS. The code library (AltiVec technology-
enabled equivalents of the Linux string.S and checksum.S files) is designed to
help Linux OS developers enhance the speed and efficiency of their
applications based on the Motorola G4 processor containing PowerPC™ cores,
without upgrading to higher processor speeds.
Readers who have endured my writing over the years know that there is no piece of software more important to me than the word processor. They also know that I've never found a Linux-native word processor that I didn't think fell short in one important way or another.
Libranet is a commercial Debian distribution. If you hold the belief that Debian Linux is genuine only if it doesn't cost anything, then read no further. Commercial Debian distributions do, indeed, exist. Some, such as Storm, Progeny and Corel Linux, have come and gone, whether for good reasons or bad, but Libranet and Xandros (as well as the Xandros derivative Lindows) are still around. How long they exist depends, of course, on whether Linux users feel such distributions are worth paying for.
Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of our AMD64
technology preview. This preview is for those who are interested in
early access to a Red Hat distribution for the AMD64 platform.
There is a line from the movie Star Trek V, The Final Frontier that I think is very parallel to the situation between SCO, IBM, and the development of the Linux kernel. In an otherwise medicore movie, there's this one scene where Capt. Kirk cuts to the heart of all of the philosophical debate about this being called God the officers of the Enterprise have just met.
Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday. McBride's accusation cuts to the heart of the open-source movement's legal and philosophical underpinnings.
LAKE SUCCESS, NY and CULVER CITY, CA - April 21, 2003 — Canon U.S.A., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), and industry leader in networked imaging solutions, and Codehost Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for manufacturers within the printing and imaging markets, today announced the availability of Codehost's BrightQâ„¢ suite of Linux and Unix-based printing tools for use with specific models of Canon's imageRUNNER line of multi-function devices, CLC Color Laser Copier/Printers, and wide format printers.