Your morning's cuppa FLOSS.
############ #For the Embedded Folks ############
IT Investor's Journal: Why Openwave is getting deep into Linux Monday April 12, 2004 - [ 06:21 PM GMT ] Topics: Linux By: Melanie Hollands
Melanie Hollands contends in a story about mobile-device middleware maker Openwave that over the next few years the WindowsCE mobile development folks might be surprised how quickly they are losing projects to Linux. Read on at ITMJ.
Read more at IT Manager's Journal - http://management.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/04/12/1818212.shtml
############# #A wonderful essay by RMS : Must Read #############
Free but shackled: The Java trap Topics: Java , Programming By: Richard M. Stallman
Editor's note: Stallman's timing with this piece is impeccable, and it dovetails nicely with the questions raised by Javalobby's Rick Ross in this article.
If your program is free software, it is basically ethical--but there is a trap you must be on guard for. Your program, though in itself free, may be restricted by non-free software that it depends on. Since the problem is most prominent today for Java programs, we call it the Java Trap.
http://programming.newsforge.com/programming/04/04/07/2021242.shtml?tid=105&...
############## #Embedded News : Holy Grail!!! ##############
Real-Time OS Vendor Calls Linux 'Insecure' For Defense Monday April 12, 2004 - [ 06:35 PM GMT ] Topics: Linux , Security , Software , Operating Systems
A storm has erupted in the embedded community, with real-time operating systems house Green Hills charging that Linux is fundamentally insecure and wide open to security breaches by "foreign intelligence agencies and terrorists."
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040412S0001
############## #Supercomputers & GNu/Linux ##############
Cray CTO: Linux clusters don't play in HPC By Jan Stafford, Editor 12 Apr 2004 | SearchEnterpriseLinux.com SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Linux clustering was touted as the next big thing by many vendors last week at ClusterWorld Conference & Expo 2004.
But supercomputer vendor Cray Inc. scoffed at the notion of putting Linux clusters in the high-performance computing (HPC) category. In fact, Cray showcased a system -- Cray XD1 with Active Manager -- that will compete in performance and price with some Linux clusters upon its release..
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_g...
####################### #Migration : @ Work with Gnu/Linux #######################
Migrating from Windows to Linux, Part 1: Crashes, viruses and headaches. You have had it with Windows and you want to switch to Linux. Where to begin? How do you save your documents? Will my hardware work?
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040329/index.html
################### #Tech News ################### Introducing "Cooperative Linux" - Linux for Windows, No Less April 11, 2004
Summary A month ago, a trial version of a little-known Linux application called "CoLinux" was released that is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. It's the work of a 21 year-old Israeli computer science student and some Japanese open source programmers; in Israel, analysts are already saying it could help transform the software world.
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/44466.htm
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A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools
This essay is a manifesto about software for collaboration -- why the world's future depends on it, why the current crop of tools isn't good enough, and what programmers can and must do about it.
http://www.blueoxen.org/papers/0000D/
################### #MS : Humour ###################
The Once and Future King Now the Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide
By Robert X. Cringely
When I wrote last week about my conclusion that the legal system -- any legal system -- is unequipped to change Microsoft's monopolistic behavior, I had no idea that within 24 hours, Sun Microsystem would be throwing in the towel, trading its so-called principles for $1.95 billion in cash. So I guess I was right. Only now, a few thousand readers out there expect me to blithely produce an answer to the problem of what to do to bring Microsoft into the civilized world. Well, I say it can't be done.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040408.html