Optaros Publishes Open Source Scorecard
Optaros says there are over 140,000 open source projects in existence, making a standard overview of their benefits difficult for those making decisions over what should be implemented. The Open…
Talking Linux in Sydney
There are three major Linux conferences held annually, one each in the US, Canada and Australia. That alone should provide an indication of the extent to which Australians have been, and are,…
UK students offered cash for open source software
British university students are being offered cash incentives to write open source software - and the first beneficiary is a Python programmer from Swansea.
The UK Free Software Network (…
Australia To Trial OLPC
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project aims to put low-cost laptops into the hands of impoverished children in the developing world, but work is already underway to trial them among indigenous…
GNOME 2.17.5 Released
This is their fifth development release on the road towards GNOME 2.18.0, which will be released in March 2007. This is also the release which marks the start of the API/ABI freeze for the…
Manufacturing management company moves to Linux
Hines Corp. is a management company that oversees a conglomerate of manufacturers in the Midwest and Texas, and a distributorship in New York. It has a diverse IT infrastructure that requires…
Linux 2.6.19.2 Released
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.19.2 kernel. There's a long list of fixes, not the least of which is the data corruption fix from Linus and some security fixes:
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CrossOver 6 for Linux
CrossOver Linux allows you to install many popular Windows productivity applications, plugins and games in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license.
Version 6 added…
Why Microsoft will offer an Open Source OS
You can accuse Microsoft of many things, but not making lots of money isn't one of them. If Linux ever got to the point where it was costing the company serious money, what's to stop MS from…
Debian Linux 3.0 is officially dead
The old stable release Debian GNU/Linux (codename 'woody') has been archived. The official source for this distribution is the dedicated archive host called archive.debian.org. It is no longer…