In an interesting turn of events, TomTom has countersued Microsoft for patent infringement. TomTom is alleging in its suit, filed on March 16, that Microsoft infringes with its Streets and Trips program on four TomTom patents.
- In an interesting turn of events, TomTom has countersued Microsoft for patent infringement.
Microsoft sued TomTom in February claiming the GPS device maker infringed on Microsoft’s patents. TomTom, obviously thinking that turnabout is fair play, has in turned leveled its own lawsuit against the sof…

The nonprofit Linux Foundation, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are set to debate the future of operating systems at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in April. Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin will moderate the discussion, which will include Microsoft Senior Director of Platform Strategy Sam Ramji and Ian Murdock, vice president of developer and community marketing at Sun.
- The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the
use of Linux, is set to debate the future of operating systems with Microsoft
and Sun Microsystems at the upcoming Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.
Linux Foundation officials have confirmed keynotes and panelists for …

In a recent blog post, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz calls on his company to implement his three-step recipe for success, starting with recruiting developers to Suns platform software. Schwartz says Sun also needs to provide compelling commercial offerings and then sell and service Suns solutions and services.
- Sun Microsystems is looking for a few good developers. In fact, according to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, the company is in recruitment mode to gain the attentions of all developers the world over.
In a recent video blog entitled quot;Understanding Sun in Three Easy Steps, quot; Schwartz delivered w…

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced the Linux Foundation Training Program. The Linux server market is predicted to reach $50 billion in three years, and the embedded and mobile Linux markets continue to explode, which increases the demand for developers and users with Linux expertise.
- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to
accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced the Linux Foundation
Training Program, which will kick off with courses taught at the Linux
Foundations Annual Collaboration Summit April 8-10 in San Francisco.
The effort comes at a tim…

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, which is also known by the Toy Story -inspired name Lenny, sports the same excellent software management tools and broad processor architecture support that marked previous Debian releases. While more modest than the Etch release that preceded it, eWEEK Labs found in Lenny an apt standard bearer for the noncommercial Linux community.
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Novell’s OpenSUSE 11.1 hit the Web late last year packed with desktop-friendly features, an impressive strategy for tapping community involvement, and more than a few rough spots. Novell is hoping those new features will help OpenSUSE against the likes of Red Hat Fedora and Ubuntu from Canonical.
- The world of Linux and open-source operating systems is populated with what
seems like an absurd number of competing options, with new ones popping up all
the time. And yet, owing to the depth of their corporate and community support,
a few particular Linux distributions command the bulk of our a…

Novell’s OpenSUSE, one of the Linux world’s most prominent distributions, hit Version 11.1 late in 2008, sporting a renewed focus on community involvement. Check out this slide show to see if the latest version of OpenSUSE has what it takes to win mind share from Canonical’s Ubuntu and Red Hat’s Fedora Linux distributions, and stay tuned for eWEEK Labs’ full review of OpenSUSE 11.1.
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Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, and analyst firm RedMonk have released findings of a survey of thousands of Ubuntu users that show usage patterns for the Ubuntu server product. The survey, completed by nearly 7,000 respondents, shows that Ubuntu is being used in most common workloads, such as Web, file, database and mail server, and is considered mission-critical by most respondents.
- Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, and analyst firm RedMonk
have released findings of a survey sent to thousands of Ubuntu users that show
usage patterns for the Ubuntu server product.
In an interview with eWEEK about the results of the Ubuntu user survey,
Steve George, director …

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, and analyst firm RedMonk have released findings of a survey of thousands of Ubuntu users that show usage patterns for the Ubuntu server product. The survey, completed by nearly 7,000 respondents, shows that Ubuntu is being used in most common workloads, such as Web, file, database and mail server, and is considered mission-critical by most respondents.
- Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, and analyst firm RedMonk
have released findings of a survey sent to thousands of Ubuntu users that show
usage patterns for the Ubuntu server product.
In an interview with eWEEK about the results of the Ubuntu user survey,
Steve George, director …

Sun Microsystems OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free Solaris-based OS shows that Sun will not follow IBM and HP in letting Linux take over the platform space once dominated by Unix.
- OpenSolaris 2008.11, the second major release of Sun Microsystems
freely-licensed, Solaris-based operating system, hit the Web late last
year packed with feature enhancements that illustrate that Sun isn’t
about to cede the platform stage to Linux, as brothers-in-Unix such as
IBM’s AIX and Hewle…

Nokia announces that its Qt cross-platform user interface and application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available under LGPL (Lesser General Public License) Version 2.1 starting with the release of Qt 4.5, scheduled for March 2009. Nokia officials said the move to LGPL licensing will provide open-source and commercial developers with more permissive licensing than GPL and thus increase flexibility for developers.
- Nokia has announced that its Qt cross-platform user interface and
application framework for desktop and embedded platforms will be available
under Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 starting with the release of Qt
4.5, scheduled for March 2009.
Previously, Qt, pronounced “cute,” had been…

The preceding discussion has covered the most important options you’ll encounter in configuring a kernel to use the networking protocols on your network, and the hardware you use to connect a computer to that network. The process of compiling the kernel, however, is another matter, and one that’s not, strictly speaking, a networking task. Nonetheless, this task is important if you need to recompile your kernel to add or delete support for specific network features, so this section provides an overview of some of the decisions and procedures involved.

Don’t adjust only the options described earlier in this chapter and then compile your kernel. Although they’re beyond the scope of this book, kernel options relating to features like EIDE controllers, SCSI host adapters, and disk filesystems are critically important for a functioning Linux computer. If you incorrectly configure these features, your computer may not boot at all, or it may perform in a substandard way (for instance, with very poor disk speed). These options are discussed in documents such as the Linux Kernel HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html (among many other places) and many general Linux books.

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