Open source goes live
The Veterans Health Administration hospitals were among the first in the United States to embrace IT-assisted health care in a major way. So it was a much anticipated moment when last week the…
FSF Urges Computer Makers To Replace Windows Vista With Linux
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) sent five proposals to Sun Microsystems, HP, and Dell in January that would aid in the spread of free operating systems.
"We see Microsoft Vista as being…
Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week Mar 3 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone and SDK Review
- TAPR introduces open-…
Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district
By all appearances, the migration from Microsoft Windows to Novell SUSE Linux on the server and the desktop at the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California has been almost as pain-…
Songbird 0.2.5 Released
A new version of Songbird, the free, cross-platform audio player (and much more) based on Mozilla. Songbird 0.2.5 Developer Preview brings a host of new features and a healthy dallop of bugfixes…
SCO's McBride: 'We're Undervalued'
You've got to hand it to SCO CEO Darl McBride, he sticks to his guns.
On SCO's Q1 2007 earning conference call late Thursday afternoon, McBride outlined his company's performance and told…
Spending on open source support services in Canada to soar
The market for open source support services is going to boom over the next five years, according to a recent Gartner survey. The study of organizations in geographies around the world – including…
Mindquarry Forms Up With an Open Source Team Software
Mindquarry offers the first Open Source alternative to Microsoft's Sharepoint Server or IBM's Lotus Connections. The free download is available at www.mindquarry.com. Mindquarry eases especially…
The Emerging Dell-Linux-Apple War
While we spend a lot of time talking about Linux vs. Windows and Windows vs. the MacOS, the real battle for the Windows desktop alternative may be the preliminary round between the MacOS and Linux…
Novell Reports Preliminary Financial Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2007
Novell announced preliminary financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, 2007. These financial results are preliminary because Novell, during the third fiscal quarter of 2006,…