rmartish

Today March 30, 2010 a U.S. District Court jury has said that Novell not SCO owns Unix copyrights. Without the copyrights, SCO has nothing. SCO no longer has a significant claim that can be made against Linux. After seven years of legal wrangling and after a three-week trial that pitted the two companies over the question of which owned the copyrights the Federal jury has said that SCO never owned Unix's IP (intellectual property) in the first place.

This case had its roots in 2003 when SCO sued IBM for allegedly using Unix code to make improvements to Linux. Novell then said it, not SCO, owned the copyrights to Unix. Novell retracted that statement after SCO showed it an amendment to the sales agreement but then restated its ownership claims a few months later and said SCO had no right to pursue IBM.

All the Linux and Open Source Community can rejoice that the good guys won again.

Tags: IBM | SCO | Novell | Linux

rmartish

I was trying to install Java on CenOS but had a very hard time doing so. I found many tutorials but none worked. Most tutorials did not say you need to download compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 so that made it more frustrating. This worked for me. I make no guarantee it will work for you. Be sure to switch to root for this to work and download to your /tmp folder.

Download jre-6u17-linux-i586-rpm.bin ( http://www.java.com/ )
su
yum install compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33
cd /bin
sh /tmp/jre-6u17-linux-i586-rpm.bin
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_17/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

Close and reopen Firefox.

Tags: Firefox | Java | CentOS | Linux