How Would You Refocus Linux Development?
"The majority of Slashdot readers are no doubt appreciative of Linux in the general sense, but I suspect we all have some application or aspect of the platform that we wish were more stable,…
Mythtv 0.20.2 Released
The major impetus for this release is the shutdown of TMS Labs; among other changes this adds Schedules Direct support. The 0.20.2 release notes have a list of the two major and many minor changes…
Menhir - The distribution of four free operating systems
Menhir was started to grow the publicity of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenSolaris side by side with Slackware. And to widen the skills of the users to all four operating systems.
If you look at…
Source Code Management with Rational ClearCase
Solutions including IBM Rational ClearQuest for System i and IBM Rational ClearCase for System i provide a strategic advantage over competitive offerings for managing software resources and…
Most popular Linux community stories for the week Aug 25 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Linus Torvalds: I Have Never Really Talked To Microsoft!
- Advanced…
Forced to Dump Linux for Windows
Scott McCausland (sk0t), the ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker isn’t having much luck lately. Back in September 2006, he pleaded guilty to two charges - ‘conspiracy to…
Wine 0.9.44 Released
This is release 0.9.44 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. New in this release: Better heuristics for making windows managed, automatic detection of timezone parameters,…
Microsoft's Open Source Trashware
Quick! Think of some of the most popular open-source programs. I'll bet you thought of at least one of these: Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird and Apache. Now, name some of Microsoft's most active open…
Linux vs. BSD, What's the Difference?
Ubuntu is known as Linux for Human Beings, because it's driven by the philosophy that "software should be available free of charge, software tools should be usable by people in their local…
The Complete Story on the US INCITS Vote
"I headed in to town from the desert this afternoon to gas up and get groceries, and to catch up on all things ODF/OOXML. In scanning my Google Alerts, I ran into this posting by Microsoft's…