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Recommended Reading
Hunting the wild hacker (Salon). Salon's Andrew Leonard [14]looks at
the "hacker ethic". "One reason free software is able to flourish is
that most hackers are able to earn their livelihood relatively easily,
with enough leisure time to hack for the public good. The hours that
they do spend working for the Man are well enough compensated to allow
them to construct the rest of their lives in whatever fashion they
might desire. A McDonald's cashier or a taxi driver is not so lucky.
Free software is built on the reality that programmers are an elite
class of worker, both indispensable and relatively rare. The hacker
ethic, then, is a luxury."
XUL: Microsoft's worst nightmare? (ZDNet). ZDNet has posted [15]a
lengthy look at what's going on at MozDev.org. "But with browser
development in general reaching an advanced stage of maturity and
attention turning to Web-based applications, the success of MozDev
projects and the acceptance of XUL as the basis for such applications
could have the potential to make Mozilla's technologies newly
relevant." Worth a look.
Momentum builds for open-source processors (EETimes). Open-source
processors are the [16]semiconductor equivalent of open-source
software movements like Linux, according to this article in EETimes.
"A handful of commercial efforts are experimenting with open-source
CPU cores. Contract-manufacturing giant Flextronics, for example, is
laying plans to tap into open-source hardware for its ASICs. And both
Metaflow Technologies Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.) and IROC Technologies SA
(Grenoble, France) are building products using the Leon-1, a
Sparc-like open-source processor developed at the European Space
Agency's Technology Center." (Thanks to Richard Storey)
Linux Comes to the Big Screen (Wired). Wired News [17]reports on
Revolution O.S., a new film about the rise of free software. "In an
attempt to reflect the complicated culture he captured in his project,
[producer J.T.S.] Moore bills Revolution O.S. as an 'epic movie,' and
said that his one regret was that he didn't have enough money to hire
Charlton Heston to narrate the film."
LinuxWorld Expo
Around the World of Linux (Wired). Wired News [18]reports from
LinuxWorld. "Last year, some Linux-oriented journalists grumbled over
the Windows-only computers in the media room. This year, some members
of the mainstream press looked puzzled, but determined to be good
sports when confronted with machines running Linux."
Also in Wired is [19]this report on the Golden Penguin Bowl.
"Torvalds, happily displaying his huge Golden Penguin trophy after the
contest was over, said that he wasn't really pleased with his
performance, and that it was obvious he should watch more 'bad science
fiction movies,' something he'd been unable to do during the last
hectic months of coding Linux kernel 2.4."
LinuxWorld Expo: Desktop Dreams (ABCNews.com). ABC News has [20]gone
to LinuxWorld and reported on desktop Linux. "But Dell's situation
shows another major problem. With more than 90 percent of the desktop
market occupied by Windows, you'd think Linux-leaning companies would
approach offices who wanted to convert from Windows to Linux. But like
most of the big players, Dell has profitable business deals with
Microsoft."
188 Linux Distributions ... And Counting (TechWeb). TechWeb [21]covers
LWN editor Liz Coolbaugh's LinuxWorld talk on Linux distributions.
"The leading offerings include Red Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux, Caldera,
Debian GNU/Linux, Slackware, and Mandrake. Of the 188 offerings, 28
are derived from Red Hat Linux, the most common Linux distribution,
Coolbaugh said."
Microsoft takes a page from Linux playbook (News.com). News.com
[22]talks with Microsoft's Doug Miller at LinuxWorld about how the
company is making the Windows source available to "less than 100" of
its customers. "Microsoft is not going so far as to allow its
customers to tamper with the Windows source, Miller emphasized. By
contrast, software that is licensed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License may be altered by developers, as long as they agree to
publish any changes before publicly distributing the modified source
code. 'We don't want to be in the situation that Linux is in, where
there are more than 140 different distributions, leading to serious
fragmentation,' Miller said."
Big Blue eclipsed at LinuxExpo (Register). IBM is not taking over
Linux, according to [23]this article in the Register. "We're not sure
if IDG has eased the gate pressure, or simply made the floor tax more
equitable; but expansive stands from the likes of Zelerate, Blue Cat,
Zimian easily outnumbered the traditional corporate big spenders."
(Thanks to Richard Storey).
IBM exec says Linux is ready (Upside). Upside, too, has [24]reported
on Sam Palmisano's LinuxWorld keynote. "IBM may not have backed Linux
from day one, Palmisano acknowledged, but after experiencing a
companywide turnaround in the wake of the Internet connectivity
explosion in the early 1990s, IBM executives weren't about to get
caught napping as another explosion rumbled under their feet."
IBM Wholeheartedly Embracing Linux (InternetNews). Here's
[25]Internet.com's report from Sam Palmisano's LinuxWorld keynote.
"One of the factors in Linux's ability to drive standards adoption is
its global acceptance. 'It is the first operating system that wasn't
developed in the U.S.,' Palmisano said. 'This thing is accepted all
over the world. The value proposition is the ability to write an
application without having to worry about the plumbing.'"
Palmisano Touts Linux For The Real World (TechWeb). TechWeb
[26]reports on IBM President Sam Palmisano's LinuxWorld Keynote. "If
people still see Linux as a niche player, Palmisano said the open
source code operating system is a major presence in telecom and
Internet applications as well. 'That's probably 40 percent of our
industry and 40 percent of a $1 trillion industry -- that's a niche,'
he said. 'that's big enough for IBM to play in, and we need a big
sandbox.'"
Companies
SuSE: Startup of the Month (GermanHot100). The magazine GermanHot100
has [27]named (in German) SuSE as its February 'Startup of the month'.
The article gives an overview of the company and its near-term plans.
An English translation is available [28]via Babelfish.
SuSE US Cans Three Quarters of Its Staff (LinuxGram). Here's [29]a
grim LinuxGram article on the SuSE layoffs. "[SuSE US President
Volker] Wiegand basically said that Linux as a business isn't working
out, calling it a victim of hype and irrational expectations.
Customers have effectively been duped into believing that they would
be getting something for nothing when, in fact, they would just be
paying for it differently."
Lineo adds Embedded Power to its acquisition portfolio (LinuxDevices).
LinuxDevices.com looks at Lineo's [30]acquisition of Embedded Power.
"Tom Barrett, CEO and cofounder of Embedded Power, says Lineo's
primary objective in acquiring his company was for the addition of DSP
software support. However, RTXC also represents a full spectrum "hard
real-time" OS for microprocessors -- one that supports over
twenty-five 8-bit through 32-bit microprocessors. "Our core competency
is operating system environments for hard real time systems -- fast
and small," points out Barrett."
Caldera deal provides ammunition against Red Hat (News.com). News.com
[31]talks with Ransom Love about Caldera's service deal with Acrylis
and various other topics. "One difference between the services from
Caldera Systems and Red Hat is that Caldera's is designed to be
offered as a re-branded product sold by companies that resell Caldera
or Santa Cruz Operations software. In other words, Caldera won't be
the only one that hopes to profit from the management services."
Business
Enterprise Linux: Where's the beef? (ZDNet). Here's [32]a ZDNet
article wondering where the high-profile enterprise Linux deployments
are. "If General Motors, Bank of America and Citicorp are making big
bets on Linux, they aren't telling a soul outside their corporate
borders. Not that such information would naturally be there, but
searching 'Linux' on all three sites yielded zero results. You'd think
there would be some mention of it."
Making a Profit From Free Software (ABCNews.com). Here's a
[33]LinuxWorld-inspired article on making money with free software.
"Linux software companies think they can master making a profit by
selling applications built from free, open-source parts. Three of the
most prominent, Eazel, Sun and Corel, have different strategies: one
is going with support and services, one is using free software to
drive purchases of costly hardware, and the third says, hey, time to
pay for your application software."
Reviews
NSA attempting to design crack-proof computer (ZDNet). ZDNet looks at
how VMWare and the National Security Agency have [34]teamed up to make
a more secure PC. "Called "NetTop," VMware's answer would turn each
computer into a number of virtual PCs running on a Linux computer that
would sit on each worker's desk. The security system would erect
supposedly impenetrable, but virtual, walls between public data and
more sensitive information on the same computer. " (Thanks to Richard
Storey)
SuSE Professional 7.0 (DukeOfUrl). The DukeOfUrl [35]reviews SuSE
Professional 7.0. "SuSE has another distinguishing feature that I wish
more distributions would model, and that is their documentation. It
rivals many of the third-party manuals Linux users often feel
compelled to buy. With SuSE Professional you get four manuals, not
one, not one plus a quick start guide, but four full-fledged
paperbacks, well, almost."
Interviews
Torvalds on Linux: They aren't laughing now (SearchEnterprise Linux).
A site called "SearchEnterpriseLinux" has put up [36]an interview with
Linus Torvalds. "I think the desktop is king. It's the harder market
to enter, but it's the one that tends to encircle and overtake the
business use. Just look at how business people laughed at PC's and DOS
15 years ago. They aren't laughing now. And the desktop is actually
how Linux got started - my desktop."
Eric Raymond: Market slump means great things for Linux (ZDNet). ZDNet
[37]talks with Eric Raymond about Linux stock prices. "'(Open source)
looks like a better proposition than ever,' Raymond told ZDNet News at
the LinuxWorld show in New York. 'Companies need to save money, so
they need to stop writing checks for expensive proprietary software.'"
Talking to Red Hat's David Mason about GNOME (LinuxPower). While at
LinuxWorld Expo LinuxPower's Christian Schaller [38]interviewed David
Mason, Manager for the Red Hat Labs, about GNOME. "Christian: The
first step towards getting GNOME 2.0 out the door is GTK+ 2.0 reaching
its first stable release. What is the your current educated guess for
a release date for GTK+ 2.0?
Dave: Ha! I will not fall into that trap! Lets just say soon. Keep in
mind that people at Red Hat aren't the only ones working on GTK+, we
just have the co-maintainers working here. Because of that we have to
make sure that people who contribute in their spare time, as well as
other GNOME related companies get their patches, feature requests, and
bug reports in before we release the official 2.0.
"
Interview with Jasta (Linux in Brazil). Jasta is the mastermind behind
Gnapster, the open source alternative to Napster. You can read the
interview [39]in English or [40]in Portuguese. "Do you have a personal
view on the copyrights abuse normally associated with Napster? What
will the future bring to this matter?
My very strong personal opinion on all of that is this: Napster helps
starving artists by increasing awareness about the band/group/artist,
whereas it takes money away from already overpaid trendy musicians who
obviously think they deserve the money they make for their pop crap
(sorry to offend anyone who likes pop, but it sucks ;)
"
Nat Friedman, in his own right (LinuxWorld). LinuxWorld [41]interviews
Nat Friedman of Ximian. "Finally, I asked Friedman if -- as the Ximian
CEO -- he was worried about the number of open source companies
floundering on the bottom line. He told me that what concerned him
more than anything was that so many of the companies were 'blind to
begin with.'"
Red Hat CEO details Linux services push (News.com). News.com [42]talks
with Red Hat's Bob Young. "'No one cares about vision,' he said. A
year ago, investors 'valued us where we would be 10 years from now.
Now the stock market values us at where we'll be in the next year or
two.'"
Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig (O'Reilly Net). The
O'Reilly Network [43]interviews Lawrence Lessig. "I certainly think
that this is linked in the sense that the Americans have been selling
this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect
protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the
most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has
been the place where intellectual property has been least respected.
You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology."
Miscellaneous
From FUD to trash talk (ZDNet). Evan Leibovitch looks at the evolution
of anti-Linux FUD in [44]this ZDNet column. "Such comments from
Microsoft aren't FUD; they're about facets of Linux and open source
that most folks consider strengths, but that Microsoft tries to paint
as flaws. They'll complain that Linux companies aren't, and will never
be, as big as Microsoft. Of course they neglect to tell you the flip
side: the reason Linux companies won't ever be as big as Microsoft is
because they drain less money from their customers."
Section Editor: [45]Forrest Cook
February 8, 2001
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