Novell to share details of Microsoft pact

Novell plans to reveal the details in conjunction with filing its upcoming annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), spokesman Bruce Lowry said on Wednesday at the Open…

Dell PCs with Ubuntu are Less Expensive

"Contrary to many earlier expectations, it turns out that Dell's prices for its Ubuntu PCs are cheaper than similar Windows Vista PCs for all three Models. With the savings for skipping the…

Free visitor vouchers for LinuxTag, Berlin

LinuxTag takes place next week from Wed 30 – Sat 2 in Berlin, Germany on the fairground “Messegelände unter dem Funkturm”. We can provide approx. 50 visitor vouchers which enables you to get free…

OpenOffice virus reaches across platforms

A virus writer with something to prove has written a proof-of-concept OpenOffice document to demonstrate a way to infect Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems with a single script.

The virus…

Nero Linux 3 Delivers Blu-ray and HD DVD Data Burning

Nero announced today that Nero Linux 3 is now available worldwide. The first Linux application to offer Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD data burning support, Nero Linux 3 has been redesigned to maximize…

Sun and Redflag Chinese 2000 to Collaborate on OpenOffice.org Projects

Sun Microsystems, Inc. , the OpenOffice.org community and Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., Ltd., today announced a joint development effort that will focus on integrating new features in the…

Novell to detail Microsoft patent pact

Novell plans to reveal the details in conjunction with filing its upcoming annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, spokesman Bruce Lowry said Wednesday at the Open Source…

Open source outlook pondered

Dignitaries from the open source arena pondered the paradigm's future at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, anticipating even greater ubiquity.

Executives from…

Novell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Team Up to Reform Software Patents

Novell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced they are teaming up to work on reforms to software patents worldwide.

"It is increasingly obvious that software patents…

Open Source Advocates Unleash Fury at Microsoft

"The List" is nearly 500 names long, and growing rapidly. It might have started out as a light-hearted jab, but it has quickly become a flash point of the building fury in the open source software…