The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group
have announced today that they are combining their resources to form
the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering
the growth of Linux.
The consortium will allow them to unify and dedicate more of their
resources and services …
For those of you who are interested in the OpenMoko, you should be
pleased to know that Sean Moss-Pultz has posted the release schedule
today on its community mailing list. If you haven't heard about the
OpenMoko yet, it is an open source, Linux-based FIC Neo1973 Smartphone.
In an recent interview with Computerworld at the linux.conf.au
conference, Linus Torvalds gave his thoughts on Windows Vista. Here are
a few quick excerpts:
I don't actually think that something like Vista will change how
people work that much. I think it, to some degree, has been over-hyped …
In a twist of irony, it seems that while Cisco and Apple battle each
other over the iPhone trademark, a new detail has emerged. Cisco has
been accused of violating the GPL within the same product.
Damn Small Linux 3.2 has been released. In case you have never heard
of it, it is a fast and light weight GNU/Linux distribution that weighs
in at 50MB. It is pretty convenient to carry around with you on a thumb
drive.
From the topic of this post it is safe to assume that I dislike HTML
emails and I am fairly sure that I am not the only one. I am one of
those people who are quite content with sitting back and reading my
email in plain text via my …