I just noticed that Unix Review fell off the face of the planet. After consulting the great Internet Oracle I found that Unix Review ceased publication in 2007. Their website now redirects to Dr. Dobb's, where I was unable to find the two articles that I wrote for Unix Review in 2001.

I have posted both articles to my site for vanity historical reasons. I haven't changed or updated the articles in anyway, so they should be amusingly out of date at this point.

Enjoy the history.

• Wine, January 2001
• Open Source Licensing, March 2001

I finally had an opportunity to reload the Inspiron 600m with Fedora Core 2. I am pleasantly surprised by what many people said was a horrible release, but it seems that this is a case of a few bad features spoiling the distribution. Yes, I actually like the new Nautilus. So far.

This morning Slashdot broke the news that Intel has a driver out for their Centrino wireless cards. Having spent a bit of time reading this over it looks good, it just needs a bit of fleshing out. The initial version doesn't support WEP, which makes this useless for me at the moment. However, I do plan on keeping a close eye on this.

Read all about the progress at ipw2100.sourceforge.net.

This laptop has been retired in favor of my new Dell Inspiron 600m. I probably won't have much more to say about this laptop.

This information is provided to let you know how I configured my laptop to work with Linux; it is provided with no warranty at all under any circumstances. If you break your laptop trying anything listed below don't whine at me about it.

This information is provided to let you know how I configured my laptop to work with Linux; it is provided with no warranty at all under any circumstances. If you break your laptop trying anything listed below don't whine at me about it.

The "Open Source" label has become so common that users rarely consider all the implications of the term. In fact, there is no universal definition of "Open Source." If you are working at home on a personal workstation with standard product distributions, you may never need to explore the subtle differences between Open Source variants. But if you write your own software, or if you dabble in the distribution of software, you'll need a clear understanding of the various license options.

In this article, I will discuss some of the prominent interpretations of the term "Open Source." For the terminology-minded, I will use the term "open source" when referring to free software and "Open Source" when referring to the abstract concept. There has been, and will be for the foreseeable future, debate over the correct use of each wording.

It's not a Burgundy, it's not a Bordeaux, and it's not an emulator. It's WINE, an implementation of the Microsoft Windows API for Unix variants. Alexandre Julliard and the WINE development team have been getting a lot of press as they approach their 1.0 release. WINE could propel Linux into the desktop market and lower the barrier for small businesses to switch operating systems. It can even help those of us whose only tie to Windows is games. And yes, it even runs Solitaire.