Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

When SCO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it was widely seen as a move to avoid the final steps in its case with Novell. On Nov. 27, however, the bankruptcy court lifted its stay on the Novell trial, and so the SCO/Novell court case is once again free to proceed. In his decision, “Granting Novells […]

Once upon a time, Firefox was known for being far less prone to security bugs than Internet Explorer. Things have changed. On Nov. 27, Mozilla released the newest, security-patched version of the popular Web browser, Firefox 2.0.0.10. The vast majority of Firefox users will have the latest and greatest automatically installed on their systems. This […]

Desktop Linuxes are improving so quickly that its hard even for someone like me, who tracks operating systems the way some people track their favorite NFL teams game match-ups, to keep tabs on whats what with the latest distributions. Thats even true for the major community Linux distributions: Fedora 8, OpenSUSE 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.10. […]

For the fifth year, CIO Insight polled IT executives on how well their major vendors deliver business value, reliability and quality. This years winner? The No. 1 vendor? None other than Linux distributor Red Hat. Perhaps even more impressive than Red Hat beating such name brand companies as Google and Hewlett-Packard was that Red Hat […]

The good news for everyone is that you can get a good, solid laptop for under a grand these days. The bad news for Vista users is that many of those laptops, even though theyre sold with Vista, have nothing like enough resources to run Vista decently. This year, from everything Ive seen, has lived […]

What do Linux users want from their desktop? The Linux Foundations survey has the answers. While the LFs third annual desktop Linux survey doesnt officially end until Nov. 30, the number of daily respondents has shrunk to a trickle and the Foundation is working on analyzing the results. This is an early look at the […]

The Software Freedom Law Center has filed two more GPL infringement lawsuits on behalf of an open-source software project. The second-ever GPL lawsuit alleges that Xterasys and High-Gan Antennas failed to honor “source-code transparency,” in violation of Busyboxs GPLv2 license. The suits are the second and third ever filed in the United States over the […]

KDE e.V, the nonprofit organization behind the popular KDE desktop environment, has announced the immediate availability of the first release candidate for its next major release: KDE 4.0. With this release candidate, the majority of KDE 4s components are almost ready for prime time. At the same time, with the final bits of Plasma, the […]

Earlier this week, it seemed that the only thing between York Capital buying SCO was the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware turning the proposed sale down. Then, in a surprise move, on Nov. 20, SCO withdrew its emergency motion asking the court to allow it to sell its assets to York. The question of the […]

KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced on Nov. 19 that its new survey revealed that 90 percent of the Windows users are concerned about migrating to Vista, and that 44 percent would consider deploying Macs or Linux-based systems to avoid Vista migration. While Microsoft claims that Vista deployments are increasing, analysts, such as Forrester, […]