Sean’s Obsessions

This article on Slashdot deals with Intel and Red Hat making some modifications to their licencing in order to be able to cooperate.
Basically, Intel had some code that they wanted to be able to distribute without the requirements of GPL. Red Hat didn’t like it. They comprimised on the BSD licence.
I agree with […]

This article on Freshmeat goes over some myths about tuning performance in GCC, and some of the improvements in the later versions. I’ve seen it too… Turn on -O69 and your programs will fly, right? Nope. Even quoting some source code, the author walks through some of the performance optimizations and […]

And, here it is, Red Hat and Oracle are going to get their software combination certified under EAL 2 first, and later on move to EAL 4. Oracle shouldn’t have a problem, they are already EAL 4 under NT and Solaris. Red Hat will need some work, though. Best of luck/

This article (Red Hat press release here)says that Red Hat Advanced Server just got COE certification. The first article also notes that another group is pushing toward Common Criteria certification.
This is a great step forward for Linux, as it opens the door for Linux to be deployed in more mission critical applications.
I should note […]

Tony, author of the Lockergnome Penguin Shell newsletter recently made some comments about Red Hat’s corporate strategy. Quoting this article, he infers that Red Hat is trying to drive the non paying customers away.
There is another interpretation of the article, which I think is closer to the truth. Right now, you either download […]

A while back I had received a copy of Perl & LWP from O’Reilly for review. I read it and loved it. Unfortunately the review never was published on Cramsession. Since I got some positive feedback after publishing it in my LUG’s newsletter, here it is, hope it’s helpful.
Short story — Great […]

An interesting article on newsforge asks how much the market would bear for a consumer grade Linux distribution.
If it could provide email, web, and basic word processing, with less hassle than Windows, wouldn’t that be enough for many people? Kick out all the gamers, power users, and leave students, older folk, and those that […]