Great news for Linux partisans everywhere. PC Week is reporting that next month, Red Hat and Compaq will announce a deal to ship Red Hat Linux on Compaq servers, for which Compaq will offer full support.
Here’s a direct link to the DOJ’s documents from the Microsoft trial, including transcripts of the oft quoted Bill Gates depositions.
Found in NTK: Nuclear Blast Mapper. Sponsored and powered by MapBlast! (go figure).
Tech tidbit of the day. Studio B mailing list subscriber reports that a Linux box running SAMBA provides only 1/4 the performance of an NT box using the same hardware for SMB operations, like file and printer sharing. I don’t know if this benchmarking was done with Samba 2.0, which was recently announced.
The Chicago Tribune uncovers thousands of cases where innocent people were sent to jail thanks to prosecutorial misconduct in their special series, “Trial & Error”.
Rebecca Eisenberg channels Carl Steadman … sort of.