Open Source Consortium sends Becta back to school

The Open Source Consortium (OSC) has thrown down the gauntlet to the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), urging the organization to turn its talk of promoting open…

Mark Shuttleworth: Keeping it FREE

Mark Shuttleworth writes: This is one post in a series, describing challenges we need to overcome to make free software ubiquitous on the desktop.

We have to work together to keep free…

Torvalds surprised by resilience of 2.6 kernel

Linus Torvalds explains why the unexpected resilience of kernel version 2.6 has delayed the move to kernel version 2.7. In this two minute video he said that when work started on 2.6, he was…

Aras Embraces Microsoft .NET Platform to Offer Open Source PLM

In lieu of its traditional software license model, the new Aras Innovator 8 Enterprise Open Source Suite is available immediately for free as a commercial open source offering. This gives…

Flash Player 9 For Linux Released

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux…

Cablecam Wows Football Fans with RTLinux

FSMLabs announced that its flagship RTLinux real-time software is now being used in Cablecam flying cameras used to film NFL and other sporting events. Cablecam is a provider of footage for NFL…

Save time with text editing one-liners

Text-editing operations are normally done interactively, inside a text editor application. Some tasks, however, can be accomplished quickly and easily, right from the UNIX command line. What's…

Zenoss names Open Source Luminary as chairman of the board

Zenoss Inc., a leading open source Network and Systems Monitoring software vendor, announced today that Andre M Boisvert has been elected Chairman of the Board. The appointment of Mr. Boisvert…

Open Source And Career Opportunities

Matt Asay has some good advice for folks asking him for career advice: "Work for an open source company."

I'd wholeheartedly agree. I'd like to add "or within the open source group of a…

Soft sell for open source apps

Enterprise software vendors that use open source business models may be few and far between, but they are out there. I recently spoke to Peter Schroer, president and founder of Aras, about his…