National Open Source Centre launches today in the Houses of Parliament
The National Open Centre (NOC) is launched today by John Hemming MP, in the Houses of Parliament.
The NOC will help the UK to benefit from open source and open standards by developing…
Zenoss Marks One Year Anniversary on SourceForge 130K Downloads
Zenoss today announced one-year anniversary of its open source project on SourceForge. The Zenoss project was launched under the GNU Public License in February 2006 with the mission of simplifying…
KDE Storms First Day of FOSDEM 2007
The first day of the annual Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting in Brusssels was very busy for the KDE team: attending talks by other talented hackers, hosting KDE related talks in…
MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only winner in a federal jury's $1.52 billion patent infringement award against Microsoft this week. Other beneficiaries are the many rivals to the MP3 audio-compression…
Advanced Flight Simulator For Linux PCs
If you always wanted to fly but were held back by the expense and risks of flying real airplanes, you may want to give X-Plane a try. It is one of most advanced flight simulator software packages…
Dell should stop lying about preinstalled Linux
"Linux has been an option for corporate machines for 7 years now. NOTHING HAS changed. Quit lying Dell. The requests were for pre-installed openSuSE, Ubuntu and Fedora Core on Inspirons and other…
Nokia Seeks Application Ideas For Linux-Based N800 Tablet
Nokia is now scouting about for new application ideas around the N800, its latest Linux-enabled tablet. At the same time, though, the company has no plans to stray from its choice of an…
TAPR introduces open-source hardware license, OSI skeptical
The Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) organization is sponsoring a new open-source license intended for hardware components. Authored by lawyer John Ackermann, the Open Hardware License (OHL) is…
Reiser Hearing Postponed Until March
Hans Reiser wanted a speedy preliminary hearing on charges that he murdered his wife Nina Reiser, but owing to his attorney's busy schedule, will have to wait at least until March 9 for the…
Where the heck is Debian Etch?
Last September, some of the Debian Linux distribution's leadership wanted to make sure that Etch, the next version of Debian, arrived on its December 4th due date. So, the "Dunc-Tank" group…