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Penguinistas used to worry about the dreaded fork, especially of Linux. “What if Linux forks and becomes like Unix?” was a question often being posed in the open source media. Linus Torvalds would do his best to put those fears to rest, explaining that under the GPL forks are usually to be welcomed. He was of the opinion that if a fork improves a product and is liked by the users, those changes will almost certainly be rolled back into [...] Continue reading Some Prominent Open Source Forks 
The bull doesn’t seem to be part of PCLinuxOS anymore, as it was in 2010 when I first started using it. The distro changes its look with each new release and nowdays the logo is something akin to a CPU usage graph. Other than that, I can’t tell you a thing about the greatest and latest version of PCLOS. I became a PCLOS user when someone gave me an old Dell laptop running XP. The first thing I did, of [...] Continue reading Saying Goodbye To PCLOS In the smartphone market, Android is now number one, according to a press release issued Friday by comScore, a company that measures online activity. According to their figures, Android has passed RIM to take the top spot, with a 34.7% market share, up from 28.7% on December 10. During the same period, RIM’s share dropped 4.5 points, from 31.6% to 27.1%. Apple’s share remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 25.0% to 25.5%. Microsoft and Palm dropped 0.9%, and now claim [...] Continue reading As Android Passes RIM, What’s Next? The more things change, the more they stay the same! During the last year we’ve become used to seeing Novell and SCO in the news, and usually they’re mentioned in the same breath, given the legal battle between the two over who owns UNIX. This week they’re both in the news again, but in what appears to be separate stories. But things are seldom what they seem, especially when SCO is involved, so we’ll see. Novell Finds Buyers The Wall [...]
Continue reading Friday FOSS Week in Review – Novell & SCO Dance Separately It’s been rather hectic here at FOSS Force this week. You might have read that we had to replace our old worn computer with a new-to-us (that means “used”) box, and we’ve been spending the week configuring our POS app, plus downloading and installing all of the stuff we need to operate our daily business. This means, however, that the FOSS Force army is currently working in (ugh) Windows. We’ve got a key dreaded legacy app we use that’s Wintel, [...] Continue reading Friday FOSS Week in Review – Android Coming to PC |
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