HP finally wakes up and decides to start selling Linux PCs
See here. Took ‘em long enough, but they’re finally selling SuSE Enterprise. Not open source, but dang close.
March 18, 2008
March 12, 2008
How to win back browser market share if you’re a closed-source company that doesn’t have a billon dollars
Duh, you do this. Which is what Opera’s doing.
March 3, 2008
I TAKE APART NDISWrapper over the GPL
See here. Here’s my amazing quote:
“Ndiswrapper itself is *not* compatible with the GPL. Trying to claim that ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL’d even though it then loads modules that aren’t is stupid and pointless. Clearly it just re-exports those GPLONLY functions to code that is *not* GPL’d.”
February 28, 2008
NASA Uses Fedora. Duh, do you think they actually trusted the Federation with their stuff?
See here. I mean, yeah the client is Windows XP with a customized QuickTime. And the server is only Fedora Core 4. But it’s still Fedora. Yay Fedora!
February 25, 2008
I go on a rant about suspend
See here.
I go on an amazing rant about suspend issues. Here’s my full quote:
“For example, the ‘freeze’ action for USB (which is one of the hardest things to suspend) should literally be something like just setting the controller STOP bit, and waiting for it to have stopped. The ‘unfreeze’ should be to just clear the stop bit, while the ‘restart’ should be just a controller reset to use the current memory image. NONE OF THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING TO DO WITH SUSPEND. It never did. I’ve told people so for years. Maybe actually seeing the problems will make people realize.”
