http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/ Our Hoosier Penguin uses common sense and reason to describe what moves and shapes Linux and Open Source. en-us 2008-07-23T12:42:13-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/07/richards-dream.html Way back in the very olden days, or so the story goes, Richard M. Stallman was motivated to launch the Free Software movement because of something that afflicts us to this day- crappy binary-only printer drivers. How's that for innovation?... cschroder 2008-07-23T12:42:13-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/07/a-roaring-start.html What a week this has been. It started off wonderfully, in my brand-new job that I inherited from the incomparable Brian Proffitt. After six years of artfully steering the good ship Linux Today (and LinuxPlanet, and several other Jupitermedia sites),... cschroder 2008-07-16T22:53:05-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/07/confirmed-xandr.html By Mark HinkleToday Linux desktop manufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an undisclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing engineering, support, and key sales employees and long-time Linspire employee and CEO Larry Kettler will be joining the Xandros executive... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-07-01T20:37:14-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/06/andre-boisvert.html By Mark Hinkle Most open source luminaries are known for their code, their successful startup successes or even their outspokenness. Andre Boisvert comes to open source from a different angle. Having worked for two billionaire programmers, Larry Ellison and Jim... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-06-13T12:45:47-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/06/eye-candy-so-ba.html Even though I consider myself a fairly advanced Linux user, there are some things in Linux I haven't gotten around to yet.This isn't usually through inability to do something; it's usually a matter of not seeing the need for it.... Brian Proffitt: Hoosier Penguin bproffitt 2008-06-11T15:57:54-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/06/twitter-clients.html By Mark Hinkle I love Twitter but when I use my Linux laptop (Ubuntu running Hardy Heron) I don't have many native options for Twitter clients. The preferred native client appears to be Twitux. Though the nascent client is a... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-06-09T15:58:22-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/06/open-source-out.html By Mark Hinkle Ryan Bagueros, sent me a note a few weeks back about North-by-South his open source development firm.... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-06-06T20:21:58-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/06/5-reasons-why-j.html By Mark HinkleThere is a funny thing about commercial open source software companies as much as they like talking about their community-driven open source heritage they end up doing a lot of things their proprietary counterparts do. Spout off... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-06-04T11:18:40-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/06/new-ubuntu-remi.html The consumer market has been going ga-ga for Linux-powered ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) such as the much-balleyhooed Asus Eee PC and (soon) offerings from HP, Acer, and (maybe) Dell. And ga-ga they should. These are (or will be) sweet machines. Joining... Brian Proffitt: Hoosier Penguin bproffitt 2008-06-03T21:46:47-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/06/barracuda-tries.html By Mark Hinkle Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun's billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-06-03T09:55:10-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/05/are-google-and.html By Mark Hinkle There was a time when I thought the Linux desktop was going to take a market share at least equal to Apple's. Maybe even 5% or 10% of the total desktop market. I had high hopes... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-05-21T14:35:37-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/05/to-market-to-ma.html One of my ongoing concerns about Linux and open source is figuring out how to get it to the people who can benefit the most from it.There's some disagreement in the community on just who that target audience is. The... Brian Proffitt: Hoosier Penguin bproffitt 2008-05-19T13:51:24-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/05/the-curse-of-op.html By Mark Hinkle I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an OSI-approved license.... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-05-09T09:35:30-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/05/black-ducks-exc.html By Mark Hinkle I met Black Duck CEO, Doug Levin back in October 2003 at the Enterprise Linux Forum in Washington D.C. I instantly liked him. He was just starting Black Duck Software and as a ex-Microsoftie talking about... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-05-05T07:48:16-05:00 http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2008/05/silicon-dust-hd.html By Mark Hinkle I have been tinkering with brew your own home DVRs for years with limited success. I have gone through various incarnations MythTV, Mac OS running proprietary software, even a painful weekend with MIcrosoft Media Center.... Mark Hinkle: Socialized Software bproffitt 2008-05-02T10:18:01-05:00