Comdex

More COMDEX

With yet another update from Comdex, Pater: Even though not listed in the directory Sun is here, albeit on PC. It's kinda odd to see PCs running Solaris and OpenWindows in the middle of a primarily Win32 convention. The Linux pavillion was also quite crowded, featuring S.u.S.E., Red Hat, and Caldera. Linux Journal is there as well. Most of the atttendees here have no idea that another OS exists besides Win 95/NT.
Caldera

Linux vs. NT at Caldera.

Carlos Morgado wrote in to send us this link to a Caldera test pitting NT against Linux running Netscape's FastTrack web server. Results seem to show that Linux scales much more reliably than NT.
X

The X Situation (editorial)

Jim Knoble has written us an editorial on the recent situation involving the OpenGroup and their new cost structure related to X11 6.4. I'd say if Netscape was the biggest Open Source success of the year, this situation may very well be the biggest failure. Fortunately XF86 will remain free, and will very likely define the future of X. Anyway check the link below and read Jim's take on the situation.
Caldera

Satellite Internet and Linux

Shane McLaughlin writes " Caldera have announced an OEM agreement with Helius to provide an OpenLinux server with a high-speed, satellite-based Internet LAN link. Rather cool, methinks." Caldera's OEM agreement with Helius will allow Linux to support speeds up to 3MPS- but you still need another pipe for outgoing traffic. Even so I agree, this is rather cool.
News

Free Software News

Matt Thompson writes "I think the Open Source/Free Software movement is really getting close to 'critical mass'. We see more and more articles (almost daily) about the phenomenon, the latest of which is here. An excellent, even-handed article that even has links to www.gnu.org, O'Reilly, NCSA, Caldera and FSF!"
Caldera

Court Allows Caldera Complaint

A US Federal Court has allowed Caldera's complaint that Microsoft created a "technical tie" in Windows 95 so that competing vendors versions of DOS wouldn't be able to run Windows 95 to be amended to their already large portfolio of anti-trust allegations, including identical ones with MS-DOS and Windows 3.11.The case should go on trial in front of a [hopefully educated and appropriatley biased] jury in November of this year.
Caldera

Dos:Back With a Vengence

Apparently Caldera has been doing a lot better with Open/DR-DOS than they expected. Check out This InfoWorld Story sent to us by Ed for info on why this is. My guess is it's just people who want to play WarCraft II but don't want to run it under real DOS.
Caldera

Caldera Throws Down Gloves

Caldera has posted quite an interesting open letter on their homepage. They really have thrown down their gloves and openly challanged SCO and Microsoft. Their letter was pompous, arrogant, and absolutely true. I wish them the best.

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