Oracle Proposes Open Source Persistence Project at Eclipse Foundation
Today, at the EclipseCon Conference, Oracle, a newly appointed Eclipse Board Member and Strategic Developer, announced it will donate its award winning Java persistence framework, Oracle TopLink,…
Red Hat Readies RHEL 5 for March 14 Launch
The wait is almost over. It may have taken two weeks longer than Red Hat Inc would have liked, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the updated version of the company's commercial Linux platform, will…
Linux Pro Magazine opens North American office downtown
A publisher of magazines focusing on the Linux computer operating system has launched its North American headquarters in downtown Lawrence.
Linux New Media AG, based in Germany, officially…
Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
Advocates and users of free and open source software (FOSS) technology believe that it is too late for any form of crusade to discredit FOSS as it is already widely used.
The sources made…
Preparing your Linux systems for the new DST
"Spring forward; Fall back," That's the way the saying goes. Some years I get it backwards, but I eventually catch on. I've never had to worry about my PCs getting it wrong before, though. Now,…
Fedora Core 6 reaches 2 milliion installations
According to the Fedora Project's statistics page, as of Monday, Fedora Core 6 has reached 2 million installations, approximately 4.5 months since its release. Here is one blog post about it, from…
OLPC overview, look at near-final hardware - Video
Eric Deritis from AMD gives an overview of the OLPC. The One Laptop Per Child project is an important one, and Eric not only shows us a near-final build of the hardware and software, but he also…
Asterisk 1.4.1 Released
The Asterisk and Zaptel development teams have released Asterisk 1.4.1. This release contains a very large number of bug fixes, including a fix for the recently discovered security vulnerability…
Linux Networx Conference for Aerospace Solutions
Linux Networx, The Linux Supercomputing Company, today announced that it is hosting its third annual Linux Networx Conference for Aerospace Solutions the week of March 12th. Linux Networx, along…
SeaMonkey 1.1.1 Released
Following the Gecko security update releases a few days ago, the SeaMonkey project has issued new security and stability releases today for its all-in-one internet application suite. SeaMonkey 1.1…