Articles tagged ‘linux’

Even as platinum players like IBM, HP, Sun, Red Hat, Intel, CA and Oracle expand the market for this jewel of the free software movement, the other character of Linux and open source peeks now and then from behind the shiny counters, logos, and equipment. Linux is still a grassroots, bottom-up effort.

Aruna Sundarajan is a senior IAS bureaucrat and State Secretary for Information Technology for Kerala. She has over two decades of professional experience in government. She has held key administrative positions both in the Center and the State and has been Director (Industries) and Secretary (Industries) prior to taking over as the Secretary in the Department of IT in the Government of Kerala, which she has held for the last three years. Kerala. In an interview with Alolita Sharma, she talked about open source software and the role of the government in promoting it.

New technologies push Linux into the enterprise as the community strives to preserve the basics.

In this article, the author tracks the progress of adoption of open source software across the world. In search of technologies best suited for their countries, governments around the world are looking into Linux and open source software technologies.

Computational devices will pervade everyday items from the car to the toaster and everyday activities from money and banking to medicine and travel.

Eqlplus is a Linux modem combining strategy based upon IP masquerading and the kernel eql driver. Modern browsers typically open many simultaneous HTTP TCP-based connections to fetch text and images from remote servers. TCP multiplexing distributes these simultaneous connections across several active links thereby increasing the apparent bandwidth to the Web user.

Linux can only win by the right balance of humility, responsibility, and technical superiority.

Linux carries a similar promise for the global software community as the 1849 Gold Rush did for California. For software products and projects, Linux is software gold.

This author writes on the dynamics of the ‘Bazaar’ and the forces and conditions that influence it. The author contends that the Linux ‘Bazaar’ is not simply a loose collection of vendors and other proponents, motivated only by mutual recognition. The ‘Bazaar’ really operates on a larger stage. When forces of the larger stage organize around a dominant restrictive group, a reactionary force is generated in the remaining community. Over time, this reactive force propels various alternatives.