I have been admin/arch on a so called MUD for many years, starting in the mid 90s.The MUD I started out on is written in a language called LPC, and when I left there in 2003, I started on writing a new system/game library for such a MUD. As part of this library, I wrote a webserver.

I also run a somewhat complex Apache configuration, and at first, the purpose of this small http server was to present some information from within the game and no more then that, and as such only needed a very limited subset of http. Once I got to implement and activate the http server it turned out to perform a lot better then I had expected, and on a slow evening I decided to rewrite it to become a proper, general purpose http server.

The current implementation serves static files as well as being able to retrieve content from LPC objects. It has built in session management (and supports cookies) and it even supports namebased virtual servers.

A while back, I posted on here an article about the Open Graphics Project. The project has continued to grow, and now you can catch an interview on KernelTrap.org that discusses the current status, details, and future of the project.

Linksys uses Linux on their WRT54 and WAP54 series of wireless routers and access points.
Because of the availability of the source code for the Linux version as it runs on this device, there exist several alternatives for the Linksys provided firmware.

X-micro assembles and packages all kinds of devices including 'wireless broadband routers', one of which is the WXL-11GRIX.
Opening up the device tells us that this is in fact a SD9218 CPU (MIPS R3000 clone with integrated networking and peripheral hardware controllers) with a few extra components. This makes one wonder what operating system this device is running...

What do you expect patent attorneys to say about software patents.. No surprise there of course. What is surprising is that supposedly very intelligent people manage to completely fail to understant the situation.

I am getting quite a few questions with regards to installing dri enabled graphics drivers on FreeBSD. In this article I'll discuss the general setup, and it shoudl enable you to get this to work for every card that is supported.

In my experience, and apparently the experience of others, finding a graphics card which is supported by open source drivers is a bit of a challenge. Either the open source driver support is poor or limited, or there are simply no open source drivers at all. Many people resort to buying used cards from eBay.

Frustrated, I have decided to start a project to solve the problem. Since I am a chip designer, and I work for a company that sells graphics cards, I decided to approach management with the idea, and they agreed that if I could justify it economically, we would do it. The primary objective is to produce a graphics product which has fully open documentation and fully open source driver.

A comparison of graphics cards on FreeBSD
Unlike many reviews and comparisons out there, this article will barely look at the hardware, and mostly at drivers and their performance

ID released the DOOM 3 binaries for Linux. This is of course a very nice continuation of a tradition, ID games are platform independent.

According to this article about a Gartner group report a substantial part of the PCs sold with Linux pre-installed is used to run illegal copies of Windows.

In the following article I'll look at this claim and try to figure out what is behind it (beyond the long standing and very obvious MS bias that the Gartner group has)