Citing both frustration and opportunity, Blake Stowell has resigned as spokesperson for Utah’s controversial SCO Group. Stowell acknowledged Wednesday that he grew weary of mounting restrictions on his comments about SCO’s US$5 billion federal complaint against IBM and its other Linux-related lawsuits. “I understand the reasons,” he said, stressing he still supports SCO’s legal campaigns. “Any time a company is going through litigation, it has to be much more limited in what can be said. But there definitely were times when I wanted to say much more than I could.”

Source: Stowell Ditches Sinking SCO

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) package format and utilities are the backbone of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fedora Core, SUSE, and Mandriva Linux distributions, a host of smaller distros, and the Linux Standard Base. For years, the RPM…

They have a ways to go to catch the .deb packages.

 

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Source: RPM development on the road to revival

Daylight-saving time is springing forward three weeks earlier than usual this year, but consumers may be unaware that some of their gadgets won’t automatically be making the transition.

Source: ZNet

Zero Install is one of the more promising alternatives to native package systems for Linux distributions, such as RPM and Debian’s dpkg. Originally developed by Thomas Leonard, a professor in the Department of Electronics and Computing at the University of Southampton, it begins with a criticism of existing package systems the difficulties of using them, and is built to provide an answer to the problems raised by the critique. However, like other alternative package systems, it faces the problems of winning acceptance from the major distributions and fine-tuning its features.

 

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Source: Zero Install: An executable critique of native package systems

Novell will continue its march against Microsoft and the Vista operating system despite a recent alliance with the software giant.

“We’re excited by the muted reaction to Vista,” Ron Hovsepian, Novell’s chief executive, told the media at a meeting here Thursday. “We’re going to attack (Microsoft) vigorously and go after their footprint as much as we can.”

Source: ZNet