Lest VIA be the only one, a host of prominent hardware manufacturers are talking about open-source hardware drivers too. At the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, the big OEM vendors all said that they support open-source drivers.

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Both Ubuntu and VMWare recently released upgrades — Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is available for download and VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 is also out. The problem is that the two don’t play well together. It turns out that some changes to the Linux kernel — Ubuntu 8.04 uses Linux 2.6.24 — have introduced some issues that [...]

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For as long as there have been web sites, there have been web visitor statistics, and the people who obsessively watch them. To see who’s hitting your pages, there are offline tools like Webalizer, and online tools like StatCounter, but evidently there’s always room for more. Woopra, in the words of its marketing staff, “is [...]

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After a trial that was a sensation in certain circles, Hans Reiser, the creator of the ReiserFS filesystem, was convicted of murdering his wife. It is uncertain what will happen to the felon’s filesystem, which is an open-source project with a devoted fanbase, but there are hopes that others will continue its development. Meanwhile, IBM’s [...]

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It’s here. It’s not here. We don’t know where it is. Microsoft is having some trouble getting the third service pack release of XP out the door. Despite announcing its availability earlier this week, the company quickly pulled the update due to a last-minute glitch in Microsoft’s Dynamic Retail Management System application (RMS). Although most [...]

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