Bringing Windows 7 clients into your Linux network is exactly what the fine Samba server is made for. But every Windows release comes with new interop roadblocks, and Windows 7 is no exception. Charlie Schluting shows how to get past the latest ones.

"Red Hat's chief technology officer has maintained that an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft is not necessary for the company to enable interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux."

"RailsConf 2009 is now open for registration. We’re going to Las Vegas this year. More precisely the Las Vegas Hilton from May 4th through 7th. It’s going to be a party for sure..."

Microsoft touted its operating system interoperability partnership with Novell on Monday, saying that more than 500 customers have signed up since the program began more than three years ago.

The other day we mentioned an eye-opening incident which occurred at Interop. The industry that extracts money from Free software by spreading fear and purporting to resolve real, exaggerated or imaginary issues is a tad controversial, but to be fair, there are two sides in this story.

"RailsConf is going down next week in Vegas. I’m sure it’s going to be a great show and can’t wait to get out there. A few of the presenters have been blogging about the presentations that they’re doing..." -- see also Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs ;)

I'm at the Moscow airport getting ready to fly back to the United States. Before I leave, however, I figured it would be good to note (and then bury) three myths that I heard perpetuated by Microsoft at the Interop Moscow conference. They've been largely discredited elsewhere, but it appears Microsoft prefers to keep regurgitating the party line until abject ridicule sets in.

Open source is not something routinely thought of in connection with consumer electronics. Any visible open source at the CES show in Las Vegas last week was hard to find, so hard some people, like LXer's Scott Ruecker nearly gave up. All he could find were EEE PC's running Windows XP, not Linux and a Dell laptop running Ubuntu.

Last week the Wireless Association’s yearly technology extravaganza, CTIA, took place in Las Vegas where the top gadget manufacturers shared their latest and greatest in mobility wares.