Over the last year, ATI has shocked observers by not only taking the video card performance crown from nVidia, but also keeping it. This trend appears bound to continue for the foreseeable future with the recently released Radeon 9800 that has taken much of the spotlight away from nVidia's card intended to surpass the 9700.
Amsterdam, Netherlands - April 2nd, 2003
High-Availability.Com (HAC), a leading provider of easy and affordable high availability (HA) clustering solutions for Unix environments, today announced that it has released an aggressively-priced “all-in” RSF-1 solutions package to provide High Availability for Linux systems.
Fairfield, New Jersey and Culver City, California — April 8, 2003 - Kyocera Mita, one of the world”˜s leading document imaging companies, and Codehost, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for original equipment manufacturers within the printing and imaging markets, today announced a strategic alliance to distribute BrightQ software through dealers/resellers to customers who currently utilize a Linux or Unix environment for their printing projects. BrightQ's suite of Linux and Unix printing utilities has demonstrated perfect interoperability with Kyocera Mita's ECOSYS printers and multi-functional products (MFPs).
A few months ago I had a few minutes of free time on my hands and so I made a stop at Best Buy to browse for some networking equipment. As I walked toward the hardware section, a software package caught my eye that I hadn't heard of before: “Acronis PartitionExpert.” Realizing the need for a good partitioning tool in many environments that use GNU/Linux, I made a mental note to contact Acronis when I got back to the office.
1993: Young incorporates ACC Corporation, a catalog business that sells Linux and Unix software accessories and books and distributes a magazine called New York UNIX
Altadena, CA; Paris, France; March 25th 2003 — MandrakeSoft, a leading
provider of Linux solutions for the enterprise and for individuals, today
announced the immediate availability of Mandrake Linux 9.1 “Bamboo” for x86
processors. This new release is one of the most advanced and powerful Linux
systems currently available, with cutting-edge features such as Apache 2,
NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power-management, “Zeroconf” network support,
WiFi support, and much more. Mandrake Linux 9.1 provides an unequaled level
of comfort for users with a simplified graphical installer, a brand-new
“MandrakeGalaxy” theme, stunning anti-aliased fonts, and of course the new
KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2 desktop environments.
This topic has been written about at least 1000 times. But hardly anyone seems to have highlighted the biggest practical difference between Open Source and Shared Source: That you can modify Open Source software to fit your device (and other software), while Shared Source only lets you modify your device (and other software) to fit the Shared Source software.
It has been several months since we began our quest to find the best desktop GNU/Linux distribution of the Fall/Winter 2002 batch. We have considered lots of distributions that attempt to innovated and streamline the Linux experience and now we consider who succeeded to push beyond the rest and win our award.
But there is something here that the Linux development community should not miss: SCO has shown the extent of its contempt for you. Without IBM as fairy godmother, says SCO, you could never have achieved what you have achieved with Linux. That is an insult of the highest order - the worldwide free software development community has been slandered in a big way. Whatever happens with this case, we should not forget what this company thinks of us.
I have been given a copy of an article, supposedly to run in the Wall Street Journal tomorrow, which reports that Caldera Systems (which now does business as the SCO group) has filed suit agaist IBM for multibillion-dollar damages over supposed disclosure of SCO's intellectual property to what SCO calls the “free software community”.