September 2007 Archives

The gist of the news is this: the project team has released a Live CD version of the CentOS 4.4 distribution that will include the OpenVZ software, so users can essentially stick a CD in their machine's drive and test-drive OpenVZ in just a few minutes.

Microsoft-centric vendor gets the idea from current and potential customers that this Linux thing is not such a bad idea. Said vendor checks out the biggest Linux distros out there and goes to work porting their flagship application to said distro and then makes a big announcement.

The vendor, in this case, is DigitalPersona, Inc. But they didn't exactly follow the script.

That sounds rather fanboy-ish, but truthfully until that time my only experience with virtualization was with a ponderously slow VMWare client running Red Hat on a Window XP machine. Yick.

Here's a little test for you--quick, name the hardware vendor about which the following was said:

[their] commitment to providing high-quality drivers that meet the needs of the mobile Linux community is second to none.
--Matthew Garrett, Ubuntu Mobile Linux Engineer

I tend to suggest that... you buy [a machine] with [company's] graphics and wireless. That takes care of the 2 biggest annoyances right there.
--Linus Torvalds

(See source at the end of this post)

Such was not the case with the late-to-the-funeral mea cupla from Forbe's Daniel Lyons published yesterday over on Forbes.com.

To GPL or not to GPL: What Would Dostoevsky Do?

"Thou wouldst go into the world, and art going with empty hands, with some promise of freedom which men in their simplicity and their natural unruliness cannot even understand, which they fear and dread- for nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom."
- The Grand Inquisitioner, Book 5, Chapter 5, The Brothers Karamazov

1. Moved to another city

2. Wrote a book

3. Remodeled part of my new house

4. Traveled to five different trade shows,

I finally resumed my training in Taekwondo on Tuesday. My performance during the first training session at my new school wasn't stellar, but thankfully didn't suck. (My knees, however, are still complaining.)

And I am sure I wasn't the only one chuckling when it was announced this past weekend the crack to bypass this feature has already been created.

Okay, that was a catchy title but for the first time in my love affair with Ubuntu have I had an install failure. I tried to install Ubuntu on my Dell Inspirion 1505 and couldn't get X11 to automatically configure. It was very dissappointing. It's really not Ubuntu's fault, it's ATI's because they didn't open source their drivers. So my ATI Mobility x1400 video card wasn't supported by X.org.

Initially, I have to admit, I was trepidatious when I opened the box and saw the little green and orange AMD 64 Athelon sticker. The last time I tried running a 64-bit Linux box, things did not go well.

"I'm Dave Hitz, one of the co-founders of NetApp. I suspect that our lawsuit will trigger "discussion" (to put it politely) in the open source world. I didn't want you to be taken by surprise, since people may turn to you with questions. I wrote a blog with my thoughts on the situation." If you have any questions--or just want to chat--I'd love to talk with you this afternoon...