Software provides
functionality for the
benefit of real people.
Most software resides in
applications, not in
drivers or kernels. Today
the open source community
needs enabling kernels
like Linux far less than
it needs enabling
ap...
IPv6 is the
next-generation Internet
protocol designed by the
IETF as a replacement for
IPv4. Most of today's
Internet uses IPv4, which
has been remarkably
resilient in spite of its
age; however, it is
beginning to have
problems i...
Considering Linux as a
desktop operating system?
Moving to Linux: Kiss the
Blue Screen of Death
Goodbye! guides you
through the process and
even includes a bootable
CD mastered by author
Marcel Gagne.
LinuxWorld Magazine's
editor-in-chief Kevin
Bedell recently met with
professor Eben Moglen of
Columbia University.
Eben's the general
counsel for the Free
Software Foundation; here
he shares with LWM
readers his insight on
the dis...
Tim O'Reilly, founder and
president of O'Reilly &
Associates, was a pioneer
in the popularization of
the Internet and has been
an activist for Internet
standards and open source
software. He has led
successful public
relations campa...
To say there is general
confusion about Linux and
open source software
within many organizations
is an understatement. The
confusion seems to stem
from misunderstanding the
Linux and open source
philosophy but is due in
no small par...
Welcome to the third
installment of my Linux
Careers column. The last
two columns focused on
recruiting strategies in
the open source
community. Now I want to
examine certifications
and their place within
the open source
community...
There's no question that
the open source community
has a lot going for it.
Besides a staggering
amount of developer power
that can be turned
against important
problems, the open source
movement also has a
passion and commitment
th...
I often make
recommendations on the
applications I use daily
while sharing my
perspective on the Linux
desktop. However,
recently I've been
getting feedback from
users on what they feel
are the most valuable
open source desktop
...
Seeing is believing. A
picture is worth a
thousand words. You can
see more information in a
second than you can hear
in a day. The truth in
these phrases is part of
what is driving us
through a revolution in
3D graphics, and today
...
Those who like .NET may
find themselves
lamenting, 'I still have
to deploy applications on
the Windows operating
system. I am still locked
to one vendor -
Microsoft.' If this
sounds like you, Ximian's
Mono project might be the
ans...
One of the problems with
open source software is
that it isn't controlled
or monitored. It's all
very well for us Linux
types to sit here and
say, 'Open source
software is better,' but
how do we quantify and
qualify that statement
...
In the past few years
blogging has taken the
geek world by storm, and
lately it's started to
pull in the non-geeks as
well. The act of
maintaining a weblog, or
blog, isn't too
impressive in itself, but
it represents an
interesting...
Richard Stallman is the
founder of the GNU
Project, launched in 1984
to develop the free
operating system GNU, and
thereby give computer
users the freedom that
most of them have lost.
Here he shares with Kevin
Bedell and LWM readers...
Welcome to the Free
Software/Open Source
focus issue of LinuxWorld
Magazine! In this issue
our goal is to give you a
perspective and
understanding of the
amazing reach and
accomplishments of what
is becoming known as the
Free/Libr...
As Linux moves in
everywhere within
enterprise computing - in
embedded solutions, on
the desktop, in
distributed applications,
and on mainframes - the
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latest developments.
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. T
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha