LBN Industry News Desk

The announcement came in the form of a concise e-mail to the gentoo-nfp mailing list: From: Daniel Robbins Subject: Resigning from development role Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.nfp Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:48:49 +0000 Hi All, As of today, I am resigning from my development responsibilities for Gentoo. This includes my role as Chief Architect and as manager of release engineering. I am not appointing a replacement Chief Architect. For releng, Zhen is doing an excellent job leading this effort and I would like him to be able to continue his work in this area. Regards, Daniel Dubbed last here at LinuxWorld, "a distribution by geeks, for geeks and for nobody but geeks," Gentoo has gained over the past 12 months a rapidly increasing, fiercely loyal group of us... (more)

Concerned Over Patent Infringement, Munich Calls Halt to Linux Switch

The city of Munich has pulled the plug on what was to have been the biggest Windows to Linux migration - of over 15,000 PCs - over patent concerns. There are more than 50 patents relating to Linux that could cause Munich headaches, as a member of the European Union (EU). Some industry experts say that Linux may infringe upon more than 200 patents. Last Friday, Green Party Alderman Jens M... (more)

Immunix Acquisition by Novell Reflects Increasing Importance of Linux Security

"Businesses understand attacks on their mission-critical applications can hit their bottom line unexpectedly and with grave results," said Novell chairman and CEO Jack Messman as he today announced that Novell has acquired Immunix, Inc., a leading provider of host-based application security solutions for Linux. Immunix is the creator of AppArmor, widely regarded as one of the most effect... (more)

Embedded Linux: Linux Customization Solutions for Developers Introduced

"Linux Customization Solutions enable developers to create custom Linux distributions as unique as their embedded devices," said Larry Weidman, president and CEO of TimeSys, as his company today launched LinuxDepot and LinuxEngine, new "Linux Customization" solutions aimed at enabling developers to meet the precise feature, footprint and hardware requirements of any embedded device. "Lin... (more)

Winer Says Apple Goes Too Far with RSS

In what may appear to be an abstruse argument to those not intimately involved with spec development, the recent criticism of Apple may appear to be confusing and perhaps irrelevant. But it goes to the heart of the ongoing debates between open-source software (OSS) advocates and the creeping propretitarianism taken by most large technology companies. With the release of iTunes 4.9, Apple i... (more)