One thing that struck me hard from MacWorld coverage in the blogosphere is the meme that formed out of the KeyNote: Apple computers are for people who produce. Jan. 7, 2004

GhandiCon 3 1/2: Microsoft's "Get the Facts" Campaign.
Microsoft has launched a "Get the Facts on Windows and Linux" media campaign. Ads are to direct folks to the Get the Facts website here. Smells like GhandiCon 3 1/2. Jan. 6, 2004

Emerging Technologies in 2003 & Predictions for 2004
Mylook back on emerging tech in 2003 and some predictions for 2004.

To whet your appetite...
"Going forward in 2004...
* Howard Dean loses, but not by much, to Bush. Campaigning for 2008 started by blogsphere immediately by the voters! Bloggers realize they are the power & fork their first candidate after scandal rocks support. Next day entire blogosphere is behind another candidate. O'Reilly launches new Hacks book: Politics Online Hacks (just kidding).
* Legislation is versioned via CVS." Jan. 2, 2004

What does 2004 hold for you?
I'm one of those people who love the idea of new beginnings and resetting a straight course for the new year. I'm curious.... what are you going to work on during the coming year? Dec. 28, 2003

Redhat Announces its Java Application Server
Redhat has beaten Apache's Geronimo to the punch... at least in releasing code for their Java application server. Dec. 18, 2003

Canada Deems P2P Downloading Legal
"'As far as computer hard drives are concerned, we say that for the time being, it is still legal,' said Claude Majeau, secretary general of the Copyright Board." Dec. 12, 2003

Group Weblog Reporting from UN Summit on Info. Society
The Daily Summit is a Group Weblog of folks reporting from the UN Summit of Information Society. Would CNN be covering how the delegates were talking through, George Bush's science and technical adviser, John Marburger's Speech? How about this running across the CNN headline news ticker: "Without any backing, brave Mr Magga from the Sami reindeer hunting tribes of Northern Europe, trilled a song about a young reindeer meeting an early end in life." Dec. 11, 2003

YellowDogLinux 3.0.1 with HFS+ Support
Since installing Panther I've been waiting for YellowDogLinux to support Panther's HFS+ filesystem. V. 3.0.1 has just been released and now the other partitioned half of my iBook will no longer be a hallow shell (pun intended) of a hard drive. Dec. 6, 2003

Two Days Off? What Are You Going to Work On?
Do you have the next two days to yourself? Aside from scarfing down some turkey & fixin's what are you going to work on? I have a feeling that some of us have some mad hacking in mind. Care to share? Nov. 27, 2003

SuSE Moves on Redhat Users With SuSE 9 FTP Installation
SuSE has taken the governor off SuSE Linux. You can now download SuSE 9, in its entirety, from their FTP servers. They seem a bit jammed this morning, no doubt from disgruntled users of Redhat (non-enterprise edition), but the big news is that it is available at all. Nov. 24, 2003

Further Open Source Project Polls
The "Open Source Goes to COMDEX" contest was so interesting, and revealing, that I'll be hosting regular polls about open source projects on OSDir.com henceforth. The first is: What is your favorite CMS?  Nov. 18, 2003

2+2=5: Microsoft Prepares FUD Security Assault on Linux
"Microsoft Corp. is preparing a major PR assault over Windows' perceived security failings in which it will criticize Linux for taking too long to fix bugs, we have learned." Nov. 11, 2003

New, Clearer, IP Defensive, Apache Licenses Proposed
"Roy T. Fielding, Director of the Apache Software Foundation, has announced that the Apache Project (ASF) is proposing new licenses to "reflect changes in the community regarding patents and contributing." Nov. 8, 2003

Open Source @ Comdex Winners & Results.
Ladies and Gentleman, we are very pleased to announce the winners, as you voted, for the projects that will be attending Comdex at the "Open Source Pavilion": Nov. 6, 2003

Only Three Days Left - Send Open Source to Comdex
There are only three days left to have your vote in which of our twenty one open source picks are going to Comdex. Oct. 29, 2003

Report #2 From Enterprise Linux Forum: Nat on Desktop Linux Adoption
Report #2 from Enterprise Linux Forum.  Oct. 23, 2003

Report from Enterprise Linux Forum - D.C.
My first report from Enterprise Linux Forum in Washinton, D.C. Oct. 22, 2003

Help us Send Open Source to Comdex
The fine folks running Comdex, Vegas have asked us for some help putting together a booth showing off some of the best of what open source has to offer. Well, we gonna ask you for some help. See, we only have so much space and sooooo many possibilities. We need your help deciding! Oct. 17, 2003

Jabber is on Fire!
"Jabber... said it has signed up more than 4 million licensed users, while its total user base has surpassed that of ICQ, the first widely-adopted IM platform."  Oct. 17, 2003

Monoculture or Mass Hysteria?
"As seductive as it is to root for David against Goliath, the fact is: Microsoft is not the only 'monoculture' in the digital world. Protocols and open APIs are an example of a necessary monoculture; it would be difficult to describe the web, for example, without HTTP as a common interface. Or DNS. And so on. Linux is increasingly a monoculture. Linux is seen as 'the Microsoft alternative', and as such, is almost by definition a monoculture. Apache, like Linux, is one of the core applications constituting the web痴 backbone. Should we kick Linux and Apache out or reduce their exposure in favor of IBM AIX, say, and Lotus Domino, just because these are not Microsoft and not Linux? We don稚 think so." Oct. 15, 2003

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