Happy Holidays
As news typically slows down this time of year and many celebrate the holiday season, we too will be taking a few days off to spend with family and friends. Unless there is a major event to report…
Airbus is banking on open source
The development of vital computer systems to be used and maintained for decades in aerospace and automobile construction is preconditioned on development tools the specifications of which elude…
Fedora 6 Zod live CD
After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on…
What does 2007 hold for open source?
I couldn't have an easier time playing fortune-teller this year. While some segments of the IT market might see the future as a wide-open plain, for the open source community, 2007 is shaping up…
Open source to be a driving force in education
Open-source software in schools will be the driving force for Gordon Brown’s proposed ‘Knowledge Economy’, it was claimed today.
The claim comes from Bluefountain, after massive cross-party…
Microsoft names three takers for its Linux support
Two banks and an insurance company have accepted Microsoft Corp.'s offer of technical support for Novell Inc.'s SUSE Enterprise Linux.
One of the three, Credit Suisse Group, has yet to use…
Red Hat: Earnings up, customers in, competitors out
Red Hat knocked the ball out of the park again this quarter, especially in light of the competitive pressures from Microsoft/Novell and Oracle. I joined in the earnings call today, and was very…
Hans Reiser Selling His Company
Hans Reiser, the prominent Bay Area Linux programmer charged with murdering his wife, says he's seeking to sell off his open-source file system company, Namesys, to help pay mounting legal costs…
GNOME 2.17.4 Released
The second development release on the road towards GNOME 2.18.0, which will be released in March 2007. New features are coming in at a nice rate, and that's great. A lot of bug fixes too. And some…
Returning Author’s Rights: Termination of Transfer Tool
Creative Commons is excited to launch a beta version of its “Returning Authors Rights: Termination of Transfer” tool. The tool has been included in ccLabs — CC’s platform for demoing new tech…