Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

If you think setting up and using a printer in Linux is too much trouble, take heart—youre not alone. To come to grips with a wide range of Linux printing-related issues, the OSDL-sponsored Portland Project has just held the first Desktop Linux Printing Summit in Atlanta. The meeting was attended by about 40 developers from […]

Red Hat announced recently that the Fedora Project is staying under its control instead of going to the Fedora Foundation as the company previously announced. Red Hat Community Development Manager Greg DeKoenigsberg in Raleigh, N.C., said Red Hat is retaining some control over Fedora decisions because “Red Hats business model depends upon Fedora.” This reverses […]

If Oracle were to get into the operating system business with Linux, would this be a good thing for the database giant? Industry watchers are all over the map with their thoughts on the matter. On the plus side, Dan Kusnetzky, executive vice president of marketing strategy for Open-Xchange, said, “Oracle would then own the […]

Larry Ellison, CEO and God-king of Oracle, may not be willing to pay a few billion for Red Hat, but he has thought about buying Novell, and he hasnt closed the door on buying a major Linux distributor. Now, when most people talk like this, I really dont pay them any mind—but Larry Ellison isnt […]

In an interview with the Financial Times, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that Oracle may be considering buying a Linux company in the future. After considering open sources and Linuxs pluses and minuses, Ellison has concluded that for Oracle, “We dont have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source,” Ellison reportedly said. […]

So you want to manage Linux users, but your system administrators are lost without Microsofts Active Directory? Centrify has an answer: Centrify DirectControl Suite 3. With this program, you can use AD to integrate Unix, Linux, Mac, J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), and LAMP- (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) based Web applications. The program also […]

OK, so we all knew that the chances of SCO winning its case against IBM concerning Unix code being placed in Linux were somewhere between zero and none. SCO has never been able to publicly show any evidence for it, and some of its recent attempts to find evidence through eleventh-hour subpoenas of Oracle, Intel […]

Red Hat announced on April 4 that the Fedora Project is going to stay under Red Hats control, instead of going to the Fedora Foundation as it had previously announced. Red Hats Community Development Manager Greg DeKoenigsberg explained that the Fedora Foundation was not going to take charge of the operating system, after all. Instead, […]

Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor, announced on April 10 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire open-source Java middleware company JBoss. JBoss has been rumored to be on the acquisition block for months. Earlier this year there was much speculation that Oracle was going to acquire the Atlanta-based JBoss, but JBoss […]

The news has hit the Linux world like a thunderbolt–two of the biggest names in open source were coming together. Red Hat was acquiring JBoss. What does this deal really mean? As Scott Donahue, a VP for technology analyst firm The 451 Group, said, “The acquisition comes as a bit of a surprise.” What was […]

Red Hat acquiring JBoss is big news for the open-source world. It may be even bigger news for the entire software world, though. Red Hat has long been the dominant Linux distributor. Its switch from a retail-box end-user Linux to a subscription-based business distribution made it no friends in the Linux community, but Red Hats […]

Chances are that you think Linspire lets you run Windows applications, that you have to run it as root, and that its really not quite a proper Linux. Wrong, wrong, and wrong. At LinuxWorld in Boston the week of April 3, CEO Kevin Carmony explained what Linspire Linux is, and isnt, all about. Carmony said […]