Brian Proffitt

Telling the story of Project Indiana is not an easy one. The Sun Microsystems initiative, designed to create a binary-compatible distribution of OpenSolaris, has drawn what could be considered fair comparisons between the future structure of OpenSolaris and the current state of the various Linux distributions. Thus, headlines like “Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris” or […]

How do you measure success? This question is often asked in the Linux business and development communities, with various answers given: “the number of servers in the enterprise,” “the number of desktop deployments,” “or the number of new bugs found in Vista today.” Measuring success is a matter of definition, and therefore it can be […]

Eben Moglen is one of those people in the community that delivers his message in a clear, concise way that never fails to capture the attention of his audiences. The Founding Director of the Software Freedom Law Center gave two talks at last week’s Red Hat Summit, the second being more of a Q&A session […]

Speaking to a receptive crowd of 800 at this morning’s first keynote at the Red Hat Summit, Director of Online Services Matt Maddox officially introduced the anticipated service, first announced in March during the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 launch. RHX is designed to allow participating members capitalize on existing and new Red Hat customers […]

“People are always asking us to support Linux on the desktop, but the question is: ‘Which Linux are you talking about’?” These were the comments made by Dell chairman Michael Dell in a 2006 interview with DesktopLinux.com. Apparently, Mr. Dell has finally answered his own question as Canonical officially announced that Dell has chosen Ubuntu […]

Ubuntu has long been associated with many shades of brown, the colors of humanity which the distribution and its community embraces. But in today’s release of Ubuntu 7.04, a new color will be added to the palette: the color purple. That’s the color often associated with Sun Microsystems, which has partnered with Ubuntu’s vendor Canonical […]

One of the major advantages of open source software development is the collaborative efforts between the members of any given project. But what happens when projects don’t talk to each other? That’s where a web-based collaboration service like Launchpad comes in. At least, that’s what Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, Ltd., trusts will happen. Canonical […]

They call it Unbreakable Linux, although if the rumors are true, Oracle may need to call it something else. Unbearable? Overbearing? The reason behind the jibe? Well, it seems Marten Mickos, CEO at MySQL AB, has let it be known that one of his biggest competitors, the aforementioned Oracle, might be planning to pull an […]

The launch of a new LinuxWorld event by events manager IDG World Expo means big changes for the cycle of LinuxWorld Conference and Expos (LWCEs) in the United States in 2007. Specifically, the East Coast version of the LWCE, first held in New York City and then Boston in 2005 and 2006, will no longer […]

Understanding virtualization is not an easy thing to do. The concept of many virtual machines running on board a single physical machine sounds all well and good but to many, even in the IT field, the idea seems rather, well… virtual. There are those who do understand the concept quite well, but even they may […]