Bill Snyder
As open source goes mainstream, big commercial software companies reap as much revenue as scrappy independents
Has the open source software movement become a victim of its own success? A provocative new study by a longtime software analyst suggests that the giants of the commercial software world are cashing in on the popularity of open source and becoming the dominant force in what was once called the free software movement.

Source: Info World

Technorati Tags: IBM, Open Source, Oracle, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems

I have been asked to review the XO computers from the One Laptop Per Child project. This is the first in a series of blog posts about my experiences, as well as those of some children with whom I will be working. I could easily gush over it or complain about how small the keyboard is in a single article, but I think the XO requires a more in-depth review than that. So I hope you’ll join me as I explore these interesting tools aimed at children.

Source: Blue GNU

Technorati Tags: OLPC, Sugar

Well it is a long story but I slapped together a computer for a friend and she said to install a linux distro on it. Well her fav distro is Arch one that I have had a problem or two with as the years have gone by but okay one more time for her.

I downloaded the newest iso for the core and burnt it to a cd. Here goes nothing! Needless to say I screwed up the install the first time, yes it had to be me, however I repeated the process and poof I was sitting in a command line prompt now here is where the story really begins.

I am old school who ever reads the manual? That is so noob school and only noobs read that for goodness sake. The next step involved installing x-org hey not a problem pacman (the arch package manager, and one that is really as good as apt if you pay attention to a couple of basic things) could handle that for me. Well I had it and it was installed, doh here is that pesky read the manual about to jump up and hit me between the eyes. Well me the linux dooder then downloaded KDE as the window manager and tried to start it, yikes a crash this sucks what is wrong with this stupid distro? Well folks it was not the distro it was this bonehead I only forgot one little basic thing HWD a little program that finds your hardware and then lets you configure x-org. Well needless to say that worked and then it was a case of getting everything edited and configured, and that my friends will be posted later as I get my butt out of lazy mode and into reading mode. Later folks and maybe if I do this right some screenshots
Baldy

Automattic, the parent company of popular open source blogging platform WordPress, announced this week it received $29 million in funding from four investors who will take a minority stake in the company. Though this isn’t the first round of financing for the not quite three-year-old company, it has drawn a lot of notice because one of the investors is the New York Times. It’s an unusual pairing of two industries — blogging and conventional media — typically thought to be at odds with each other.

Note that WordPress is the software used here and I am all in favor of anything that will improve the software, Baldy

 

WordPress secures $29 million in funding

According to a press release issued earlier this month by Finjan, a security research firm, compromised Web servers are infecting thousands of visitors daily with malware that turns their Windows machines into unwitting bots to do the bidding of an as yet unidentified criminal organization. Security firms ScanSafe and SecureWorks have since added their own takes on the situation, though with varying estimates on the number of sites affected. All reports thus far say the compromised servers are running Linux and Apache.

Oh sure now they have turned apache servers into virus spreaders, Baldy

 

Mystery infestation strikes Linux/Apache Web sites