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SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 will be available mid-April, Novell announced at CeBIT yesterday (US pricing will be announced at the same time), calling the 9.3 version the most complete set of operating system, management tools, application software and networking functionality ever shipped for the home computing environment. Novell says v9.3 includes a complete Linux operating system, over 3,000 open source packages and hundreds of open source applications, productivity software and home networking...
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If you've always wanted to run gentoo but didn't want to deal with the headaches of installing it via the command prompt, check out VidaLinux. It's gentoo but uses the Anaconda GUI installer. You won't have to deal with compiling, etc. Found at Extreme Tech Weblog: Go here to Linux.com, it has a review of the latest version of VidaLinux 1.1 . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Here are the top 20 Linux distro's for those that may be interested! Rank Distribution H.P.D* 1 Mandrakelinux 1467 2 Fedora 1306 3 SUSE 1075 4 MEPIS 1028 5 Debian 917 6 Ubuntu 871 7 KNOPPIX 830 8 Gentoo 662 9 Slackware 637 10 Damn Small 519 11 FreeBSD 434 12 Xandros 406 13 Yoper 361 14 PCLinuxOS 342 15 Red Hat 290 16 SLAX 277 17 KANOTIX 257 18 Vine 253 19 Gnoppix 242 20 Vector * H.P.D = hits per day Updated daily More statistics... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! |...
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A new issue of Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is out: " This week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter announces an initiative to include Trusted Computing support into Gentoo, has a call for developers, hardware and architecture testers for the AMD64 project, and talks about the release of the first GameCD for the PowerPC platform freshly prototyped. The Future Zone continues to look at project goals for 2005, this week covering the Hardened agenda, and our regular section Heard in the community is back this week...
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The Limits of SpongeBob SquarePants One Canadian's Wireless Neighborhood Network Could Someday Serve Us All By Robert X. Cringely Like many of us, Andrew Greig put a WiFi access point in his house so he could share his broadband Internet connection. But like hardly any of us, Andrew uses his WiFi network for Internet, television, and telephone. He cancelled his telephone line and cable TV service. Then his neighbors dropped-by, saw what Andrew had done, and they cancelled their telephone and cable...
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A report claiming that the Linux kernel will be rewritten to avoid patent infringements has been termed "a bunch of nonsense" by a spokesperson for the Open Source Development Labs. The article appeared in Linux Business Week last Friday, and claimed that IBM, Intel, and OSDL would announce on January 25 that the Linux kernel would be rewritten to avoid treading "on other people's IP - or at least the 27 Microsoft patents that Linux supposedly infringes." Author Maureen O'Gara wrote that the tactic...
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Linux Kernel To Be Re-Written IBM, Intel, the Open Source Development Labs, where Linux creator Linus Torvalds works, and other industry lights are planning to rob Microsoft of the ability to scare customers off of Linux by saying that the operating system is a patent infringer, informed sources say. On January 25 they will supposedly announce that a consortium has been created that will rewrite the components in the Linux kernel that, it has been alleged, tread on other people's IP - or at least...
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