Archive for August, 2007

Linux Distro Of The Week: 64 Studio
Information Week – Consider 64 Studio , which packs a whole slew of free and open source multimedia (music and video) content-creation applications such as Ardour , Hydrogen , and JAMin into a 64-bit Debian-derived Linux distribution. The 64-bitness is pretty deliberate

The openSuSE project turns two
ICT World – The development team has released the first version of the end-user interface for the build service, with which users of any openSuSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu or Mandriva distribution can easily search and browse new

GNU and FSF News for July 2007
Advogato – EWeek provides the (unlikely) speculation that the result will be a ” Linux civil war ” with the Microsoft-encumbered Linux (SUSE, Linspire, and Xandros) fighting it out with Free Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Debian, CentOS, PCLinuxOS

Linux Foundation Borrows Novell’s Markus Rex for CTO Position
Linux Insider – The previous LF CTO, Ian Murdock, who was one of the founders of Debian Linux, left LF to join Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) in March. Rex comes to The Linux Foundation with a strong history of Linux product management and strategy. Most recently, he

California city connects with open-source networking
Computerworld – In Madera’s case, two Vyatta Inc. routers that run on the Debian GNU/Linux-based open-source operating system helped Wheeler consolidate routers in the city’s data center last year. By eliminating eight Cisco routers that needed upgrading in order to