News Watch provides the latest enterprise GNU/Linux and Free Software headlines from around the web
conveniently on the OfB.biz homepage. In essence, News Watch provides for the return of the high quality enterprise GNU/Linux news aggregation that we offered before refocusing on original articles. In addition to the News Watch box on our front page, each of our topical categories now
features a News Watch section to make it easy to spot other resources of news, in addition to Open for Business, for each topic.
91:E has released a line of computers running Xandros Desktop. You can find the announcement below.
For several years now I have thought longingly about Linux, the power-to-the-people operating system that is said to be as stable as a rock, open and free and the embodiment of everything good in the world - in short, the exact opposite of Microsoft's Windows, both technically and politically.
With the forthcoming release of Mandrake Linux 9.1, we are forced to consider the product lifetime of existing products. Because every update released by MandrakeSoft involves extensive testing and QA, we feel that we are better able to provide support for, and deliver timely support of, our products by discontinuing support for “legacy” distributions.
Linux clusters born in the world of academia are sprouting legs and appear ready to march right into the enterprise, despite the growing pains facing the emerging technology.
SuSE Linux 8.0 earned positive marks from us last summer for its strong feature set and low occurrence of bugs; will SuSE Linux 8.1 be able to keep up with its older sibling and win the Penguin Shootout? Find out all of that and more below.
Lycoris, the producers of the popular Desktop/LX GNU/Linux distribution announced today that they were withdrawing from the first annual Desktop Linux Summit, of which they were scheduled to take part. The move echoes those made by Hewlett-Packard and DesktopLinux.com earlier this month.
UPDATE (2003/01/30 16:25 EST): LinuxToday has published an open letter to Lindows.com from the Linux Show. A link has been added below.
Scott Allen wrote in to let us know about an interesting sounding web cast that he will be presenting on Tuesday. Details follow below.
In our on-going GNU/Linux review series, we have received much criticism from loyal users of the various distributions we have covered. Timothy R. Butler notes that many of the issued raised by those who commented on the series were cases of knee-jerk reaction and ponders how such reactions impact the community at large and its appearance to outsiders.