Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Chances are if you print anything from your Mac, Linux desktop or server, or Unix system, youre using the Common Unix Printing System, or CUPS. Now, in a surprising development, Michael R. Sweet, CUPS creator, revealed on CUPS Web site that Apple has bought CUPS source code and other intellectual property. CUPS is used for […]

On July 10, Microsoft announced that Asian Linux distributor Turbolinux is the latest Linux company to join its Ecma Open XML-Open Document Format Translator Project. Unlike the earlier Microsoft/Linux partnerships—Novell, Xandros and Linspire—theres no patent agreement or any other technical partnerships. This project seeks to create tools to build a “technical bridge” between Microsofts Open […]

Microsoft denies that it has anything to do with GPLv3 or vice versa. Novell, however, is making it clear that it will be supporting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in the future, including any components, such as future versions of Samba, that are licensed under GPLv3. In a blog by Novells director of PR, Bruce Lowry, […]

Lenovo seems to have a love/hate relationship with Linux. Last year, it began offering its high-end T60p ThinkPad laptop with SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10. This year, the company is releasing its newest high-end laptop, the T61p ThinkPad, and once more, while it runs desktop Linux, the company isnt overly eager to let the […]

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced July 9 that it is releasing Storm, a generic open-source object relational mapper, which is used in Launchpad, a Web-based collaboration platform for open-source developers. “Storm is an ORM that simplifies the development of database-backed applications in Python, especially for projects that use very large […]

In a note from leading Samba developer Jeremy Allison, The Samba Group announced that it is keeping its promise to move its code base to GPLv3. It wasnt an automatic move though. Without going into detail, Allison wrote, “After internal consideration in the Samba Team we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses […]

When you think e-mail servers and service, do you think POP/SMTP and MAPI? Or, do Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA come to mind? If you think of the former, youre thinking like a system administrator; if youre thinking of the latter, youre a CIO. Google, with its purchase of software security company Postini, is trying to win […]

Master Linux developer, Linus Torvalds, announced on July 8 that the new Linux kernel 2.6.22 is now available. While this new kernel has many new features, its really more of a bug-fix release. At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit a few weeks ago, Jon Corbett, a Linux developer, asked a panel of Linux kernel developers, […]

When Dell first announced that it would be releasing Ubuntu Linux-powered consumer desktops and laptops, some people saw it as more of a stunt than a serious business move. They were wrong. Dell has already expanded its consumer Linux line, and now it has announced that it will soon be offering Ubuntu Linux systems outside […]

Microsoft wants everyone to understand that GPLv3 has nothing to do with the company, its Linux partnerships or anything else Redmond-based. In other words, Microsoft is doing its best not be caught on the hook of GPLv3. Ah, Microsoft youd love to be able to do that, wouldnt you? Horacio Gutierrez, Microsofts vice president of […]