Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Before now, if developers were contributing to the Linux kernel, were late getting the code in, it wasnt a big deal. Chances were it would be squeezed in anyway. That was then. This is now. Recently on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, the online working group for kernel development, an all too typical case of […]

Novell upset many of its supporters when it revealed last week that it would no longer be fully supporting KDE on its enterprise Linux family. Now, after consideration, Novell has decided it will continue to support both GNOME and KDE on its enterprise Linux lines. In a note on the Novell PR blog, Novell Inc. […]

You would have thought someone had just run over a KDE users dog last week. No sooner had the story started to break that Novell was making GNOME the official interface for its business Linuxes—SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and NLD (Novell Linux Desktop) —than the screaming began. Thanks to an opinion piece in LinuxToday, […]

IBM, Sony Corp., Philips N.V. and Linux distributors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. announced Thursday that the companies would be forming a new company—Open Invention Network—to share Linux patents without charging for royalties. OINs (Open Invention Network) plan will be to acquire Linux-related patents and share them royalty-free to any organization that agrees not […]

SUSE Linux co-founder Hubert Mantel announced his resignation from Novell Inc. via e-mail to friends and business associates on one of the SUSE mailing lists Tuesday. Mantel, chief maintainer of the SUSE Linux kernel, said in his brief note that he could no longer work for the company. “This is no longer the company I […]

My colleague Larry Seltzer thinks that we may be on the verge of an age of Linux worms that might rival the endless trouble that Windows users find themselves in. Nah. First, none of the trio of vulnerabilities in the luppi worm actually have a thing to do with Linux. Yes, these worms target Linux […]

Companies and ISPs that want to stop spam before it hits a users mailbox may be interested in VA Linux Systems Japans SMTPGuard, an open-source, anti-spam program for mail servers. While SMTPGuard is part of “VA FMS,” VA Linuxs open-source messaging solution, it will also work with other SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) servers. Unlike […]

Microsoft has told South Korea that if the KFTC (Korean Fair Trade Commission) forces Microsoft to remove code or redesign Windows for the Korean market, it might withdraw Windows from the Korean market. In response, Linspire has offered to license every Korean computer with its Linux operating system. Microsoft had threatened to remove Windows from […]

Over the last few days, a new worm, Linux.Plupii, which attacks Linux systems via Web-server related services, has made its appearance. This worm, also known as Linux/Lupper.worm or luppi, is a blended threat. It attempts to use three different Web-service security holes in its attempts to infect Linux-based systems that are running the vulnerable services. […]

So you want to be an open-source millionaire, do you? Well, first things first. I dont care, I really dont care, how good your technology is. Or, how youve tweaked out a few extra cycles from the flux capacitor. No, so long as your program does whatever its supposed to do, youre at least in […]

Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. A Linux Today story, which asked the rhetorical question “Why has Novell management decided to discontinue their entire SuSE Linux branded desktop and workstation product line?” seems to have been the source of these stories. Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell […]

Better late than never, the new Linux kernel, version 2.6.14, became available late last week. Originally, the latest kernel was to show up on Oct. 7. Linus Torvalds explained that the release been “delayed twice due to some last-minute bug-reports, some of which ended up being false alarms (hey, I should be happy, but it […]