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Ah! My first Linux-related post for a long while! Anyways, the folks at Novell have finally decided to go the Redhat way, and open up SUSE to the community. Here’s what the OpenSUSE wiki says: Read more

Bryan Cantrill, kernel engineer extraordinaire and co-author of Dtrace, blogged his thoughts about reverse-engineering and patents in the context of Linus moving the Linux kernel souce code mgmt system from BitKeeper. Read more

I’ve been trying to get Beagle up and running on my computer for a while now. There’s so much information on my hard disk, I’d love something like Google Desktop Search for Linux, and Beagle seems to be just what I need - and more.

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Jamie Zawinski’s (author of xscreensaver) has a post up on his blog (same article here), about how he talked Nat Friedman into changing the focus of Novell’s new calendar server project Hula. There’s one point that Jamie made in the article that set me thinking:

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I came across this neat app this evening: Tomboy. It’s a simple note-taking app, but both GNOME and KDE have one already, so what more has Tomboy got to offer?

Tomboy’s USP is its ability to link together notes - and therefore ideas. There’s also a system tray applet thrugh which you can quickly view the last few notes you’ve created, or search for notes.

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The SQL Slammer Worm hit businesses the world over in Jan 2003, causing, yet again, losses of millions of dollars. But this worm was just one member of a steady stream of viruses and worms to attack the Internet in the last few years. This brings us to the larger issue of the sheer vulnerability of current software, particularly Microsoft’s, to such attacks.

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Mr. Sanjiv Mathur, Head of Marketing, Microsoft India, had his viewpoint on Open Source Software in Governments published in the November 27 issue of the Economic Times. Here is a point-by-point rebuttal of his claims made in the article. Read more

On the LIG and other lists there have been discussions over the past few days, about the ramifications of Mr. Bill Gates’ visit to India and the donations that he made simultaneously to fight AIDS in India ( as Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and to Microsoft India (as Chairman of Microsoft).

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A reporter from I.T Nation Business Review sent me a questionnaire regarding their cover story for next month’s issue, “The popularity of Linux in India”. I’ve reproduced my answers to their questionnaire here:

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