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BitTorrent Lowers Lindows Costs

Last month, desktop Linux distributor Lindows.com began making its Linux CD images available for download via BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file-transfer application thats popular for...

Free But Shackled: The Java Trap

If your program is free software, it is basically ethical--but there is a trap you must be on guard for. Your program, though in...

Sun, Microsoft Filling in Details

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. may have agreed to bury the hatchet and work more closely together, but real interoperability between their respective...

Suns Microsoft Mistake

Microsoft and Sun working together!? What next? "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria"!?Of course, Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., who...

Sitting For The RHCE

Ive taken some pretty tough tests in my life, and passed every one of them on the first try. And since Im teaching Linux...

How Useful Are Proprietary vs. Open Source TCO Studies?

Weve all seen Microsofts latest barrage of studies that say their products are more cost-effective than the competition. Naturally, many accuse Microsoft -- and...

Lindows to Reveal New International Name

Desktop Linux vendor Lindows.com Inc. announced Tuesday that it will begin to change its international corporate name April 14. The San Diego, Calif.-based company had...

Progeny to Offer Red Hat 9 Support

With little fanfare, Red Hat Linux 9 is nearing its end of life. Red Hat Inc. is encouraging its business customers to move to...

MS Open-Source Move Is Straight from Playbook

I confess that Microsoft has been surprising me a lot in the past few days. First, Microsoft paid Sun off, and then it released...

MandrakeSoft Exits Bankruptcy

Linux distributor MandrakeSoft last week announced that a French court had approved the companys plan to emerge from bankruptcy protection. Under the plan, MandrakeSoft...