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Foreword: This intriguing guest editorial discusses the current legal landscape surrounding the SDIO and MMC specifications, and explains why no open source SDIO host controller drivers exist. It was written by Paul Lever, the president of Codetelligence, which markets a proprietary SDIO stack. Enjoy . . . !

Microsoft compared Singularity (MS' Research OS) to FreeBSD and Linux as well as Windows/XP - and almost every result shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants. For example, they show the number of CPU cycles needed to "create and start a process" as 1,032,000 for FreeBSD, 719,000 for Linux, and 5,376,000 for Windows/XP

The long-awaitedNokia 770 Internet Tablet (I call it a"handlet" because it's, well, hand-sized) has beenannounced in Europe and is reportedly due for the rollout in the U.S. on Thursday. I've been playing with a pre-release one, and naturally have some questions for Nokia. But I'd rather have yours. So let's have'em.

Motorola has sold more than 3 million Linux phones in Asia. It's now starting to ship three models globally, with another scheduled to debut in 2006. The world's No. 2 cell-phone maker plans to refashion the majority of its handsets around Linux over time

[Ed-Just when you thought the bumbling fools at SCO could not act sillier they have reached a new low. ]

They have asked IBM to turn over "all documents concerning IBM's contributions to the Linux 2.7 kernel," including "development work." There is no Linux 2.7 kernel. Please, please, please, let SCO ask the court to sanction IBM for refusing to hand over the 2.7 materials. Pretty please?

It took longer than expected, but the new, improved Linux kernel is now out, and it features Centrino Wi-Fi support.

Microsoft's recently appointed chief technology officer (CTO) Ray Ozzie, believes Redmond can utilize MSN to beat Google and become the industry's largest beneficiary of online advertising-based services. Microsoft hopes to convert millions of Windows developers using software development tools like Visual Studio into content providers, building adverts and services into Windows Live, Office Live and Windows applications

[ED- This is an interesting idea if it wasn't for the fact that MS has screwed every single development company that tried to work with them. Maybe Ozzie is dancing Balmer style shouting. Amnesia, Amnesia, Amnesia]

[ED- In light of Senator Pacheco's effort at Mondays closed hearing (story posted below) it is only fitting to lament what happened to one of his like-minded colleges]

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF CLUELESSNESS -- In a bizarre incident last week, U.S. Senator Fattecat (R-Washington State) fell off a 30-foot high cliff and sustained several broken bones.

"One of Fattecat's handlers at the MPAA told him to jump off a cliff, and he did it," said an anonymous source who wished to remain anonymous. "What choice did he have? He's always done everything the MPAA and RIAA want, and in return he's always been re-elected -- despite his gross incompetence."

Version 3.0 of Black Duck's protexIP/development software is aimed at organizations just getting started with software compliance management.

Red Hat will integrate the Xen virtualization hypervisor in its next commercial release of enterprise Linux due in late 2006. Built-in virtualization and built-in support for stateless Linux as well as improved automation and management tools will make Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 a more compelling platform for the data center and grid deployments [ED-Not a dupe, the earlier story was about Xen's inclusion in the 2.6 kernel. This is about RH's own distribution. Both issues are very important to Linux in the enterprise]]

The policies from Open Source Risk Management offer protection in the event of an intellectual property lawsuit.

[ED-This was hotly debated in the early SCO days, but with SCO on its deathbed maybe we can look at this a bit more nuanced. ]

Here is a proven working tutorial on how to install iPodLinux on an iPod mini 1G & 2G, iPod 4G, and iPod Photo from Windows. I have done this myself on my iPod mini 2G and it worked great. It took forever to find all this info on the internet, add in my own comments and put it together, so enjoy!

[ED- You need Windows to do the install but since you end up with Linux it is OK, The blog in general is quite entertaining though Windows centric]

Pluggable storage engines bring the ability to add and remove storage engines to a running MySQL server. Prior to the introduction of the pluggable storage engine architecture, users were required to stop and reconfigure the server when adding and removing storage engines.

More than half of the large firms in North America are employing open-source software in some fashion, and another 19 percent are planning to use it by the end of the year, according to Forrester Research. In a report entitled "How Firms Should Work With the Open-Source Ecosystem,"

Silicon Graphics announced that Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on Altix(R) systems has attained Evaluation Assurance Level 3+ (EAL3+) as determined by the Common Criteria for Information Security Evaluation.

In Part II, Heintzman shares exactly how IBM is using Open Source Best Practices to drive better creativity and performance for their commercial dev projects

PHP 4.4.1 is now available for download [1]. This version is a maintenance release, that contains numerous bug fixes, including a number of security fixes related to the overwriting of the GLOBALS array. All users of PHP 4.3 and 4.4 are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

If you have time on your hand you can review yesterdays Town-Meeting at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Read more over at Groklaw or Sign the petition if you agree.

Although Slackware was THE distro in the mid-90s , at the present time it has conceded the corporate market (but of course Linux is not about market share, the Slackware zealots always remind me!) to Red Hat and SUSE, and the rest of the market to the many Debian derivatives, with the result that Slackware is now just a niche distro used by a very small minority of Linux users.

Free 1GB online to store and edit your emails, office documents, calander, organizer, photos and files, chat to friends play games surf the web even faster and more from any computer on your own personal online desktop and access it from anywhere in the world. Here is a bit more info [ED-What a great way to demo KDE]