Pre-Installed Linux Tops Dell Customer Requests
"Within only a few days of Dell opening a new customer feedback website, they discovered that the feature most requested (by an almost 2-to-1 margin!) is an option on all new Dell PCs: pre-…
Take Microsoft's Linux money, says Red Hat
Red Hat Inc's CEO has said the company is encouraging customers to adopt Microsoft Corp's offer of support vouchers for Novell's Inc's rival Linux operating system in order to get the issue over…
FOSDEM 2007
The seventh Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in…
Has 'open source' become a misnomer?
Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to…
Cuba embraces open-source software
Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source…
OpenCola - Open Source Coca Cola
If you’ve been to a computer show in recent months you might have seen it: a shiny silver drink can with a ring-pull logo and the words “opencola” on the side. Inside is a fizzy drink that tastes…
Blender 2.43 Released
Blender is an open source tool for 3D-modeling, rigging, animation, fluid and object simulation and rendering. All of that and some more, in under 15MB. Check out their website and this great…
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated
"The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge'). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the…
Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to ‘respect IP rights’
The same week that Microsoft issued a press release providing further details about some of the technological advances that will result from the November 2006 technology agreement between Novell…
OpenVZ Open Source Software Virtualization Project Has Great 2006
The open source project, OpenVZ (www.openvz.org) delivered some 50 software updates and in total more than 2 terabytes of its virtualization software were downloaded in 2006 by the user community…