The new Ubuntu is out. Download it here if you haven’t already.
For my non-technical readers:
Ubuntu is a flavor of Linux, an operating system that can replace Windows. Linux is open sourced, meaning you can look at the code and see how it works. It’s also free to download and includes a ton of world-class open-source [...]
SCOX is down almost 72% so far today –a result of failed litigation. (It turns out they never owned the copyright to Unix after all. Who would have thought?)
Anyway, that’ll teach ‘em. SCO might not be around a year from now, but Linux will.
Viva open source!
You gotta love this:
Lindon software company SCO Group was dealt a heavy blow Friday when a judge ruled it doesn’t own the rights to the Unix code it has accused IBM of putting into the open-source Linux computer operating system.
In a 102-page ruling, U.S. District Court Dale Kimball tossed out SCO’s claim that it owns [...]
Local chef geek extraordinaire Joseph Hall spent several days making an awesome custom cake shaped as Tux the penguin (the Linux mascot). The killer cake, part of the PLUG’s 10th anniversary celebration, was not only attractive, but super yummy. Joseph also provided a full Tux Cake HOWTO for Linux-loving food-o-philes around the world.
Anyway, check out [...]
I’m a co-founder and trustee of UVLUG, a local Linux User Group that will be holding elections soon. If you’re a UVSC student or are a member of the local Linux community here in Utah, you really should read this announcement and consider helping out. LUG leadership has been a great opportunity for me. I’ve [...]
Fedora Core 5 is out. Here are the release announcement, release summary, release notes, mirrors, and torrents.
For those who don’t know, “Fedora Core is [a Red Hat sponsored] operating system and platform, based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use, modify and distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a large [...]
The Linux Users Group I cofounded has finally been added to DMOZ. I had basically given up since I submitted the site well over a year ago. Human edited directories rule, but they sure can take a long time.
Pete Ashdown (founder of Xmission and candidate for US Senate) will address UVLUG this Saturday:
Pete will present “Democracy 2.0: Open Source Government,” showing how the Federal Government can learn from the open source movement. He will talk about how the government can stop ignoring technology and use it to better the lives of all Americans. [...]
UVLUG will host Dave Heldenbrand’s presentation on IPv6 this Saturday.
From Answers.com:
“IPv4 supports 4.2 billion addresses, which is inadequate for giving even one address to every living person, much less support the burgeoning market for connective devices. IPv6 addresses this problem by supporting 340 undecillion addresses. For scale, this would allow an average of about 430 [...]
