IT Pros face more barriers going to Mac OS X or Linux than in Vista

While Vista worries lead some IT pros to consider Mac OS X and Linux as alternatives, technology professionals will be facing different kind of technology barrier should they decide to adopt Mac…

Linux on Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

My colleague John Timmer reported yesterday on Amazon's new Kindle e-book reader. Kindle's software platform unsurprisingly runs on the Linux operating system and uses numerous open source…

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 Now Available

The Mozilla Corporation today released Firefox 3 Beta 1, which is now available for download in a variety of languages. The beta includes updates to the default theme, the new places site…

KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now…

Java diagnostics with the Lock Analyzer Part 3

The IBM Lock Analyzer for Java, available from alphaWorks, provides real-time lock monitoring on a running Java application. This article introduces the IBM Lock Analyzer for Java, explains the…

Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 8

"The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 8. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute…

Global Channel Embraces Red Hat's JBoss Solutions

Red Hat announced that its JBoss middleware software solutions are being embraced by value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators and customers around the world since the debut of Red Hat's…

YaST Survey Finished

The YaST survey has now been closed. More than 11,000 individuals participated in it, a PDF of the results is now available.

http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/9/91/YaST-…

Funambol Expands User Base for Open Source Push Email and PIM Sync

Funambol, the leading provider of mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced an important new release that extends the addressable market for its push email and PIM sync…

Linux faces up to Microsoft

Even though the Microsoft platform now dominated the software market, Zemlin said the Linux platform would grow to offer a new alternative for software users.

"In the future there will be…