March edition of the GNOME Journal

The latest issue of the GNOME Journal has just been published! It features an introduction to GTK+ cross-platform application development, an interview with Jakub Steiner and Andreas Nilsson about…

Can Apple clear the way for the Linux desktop?

That's the question that occurs to me as I read this piece in Roughly Drafted. It's about how Apple is kicking Microsoft's butt at the high end of the desktop market, and how Microsoft seems to be…

The Next Round Of Microsoft Vs. Linux: Health Care

An industry that has long resisted IT automation got a double dose of medicine last week. Both Microsoft and backers of key open source initiatives laid out plans to push IT further into health…

Tamil Nadu gets dual-boot Win-Linux desktops

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has finalized a tender for 40,000 Lenovo desktops which can be installed with both Novell's Suse Linux and Microsoft's Windows XP Starter Edition.

According…

Open source goes live

The Veterans Health Administration hospitals were among the first in the United States to embrace IT-assisted health care in a major way. So it was a much anticipated moment when last week the…

FSF Urges Computer Makers To Replace Windows Vista With Linux

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) sent five proposals to Sun Microsystems, HP, and Dell in January that would aid in the spread of free operating systems.

"We see Microsoft Vista as being…

Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week Mar 3 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone and SDK Review

- TAPR introduces open-…

Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district

By all appearances, the migration from Microsoft Windows to Novell SUSE Linux on the server and the desktop at the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California has been almost as pain-…

Songbird 0.2.5 Released

A new version of Songbird, the free, cross-platform audio player (and much more) based on Mozilla. Songbird 0.2.5 Developer Preview brings a host of new features and a healthy dallop of bugfixes…

SCO's McBride: 'We're Undervalued'

You've got to hand it to SCO CEO Darl McBride, he sticks to his guns.

On SCO's Q1 2007 earning conference call late Thursday afternoon, McBride outlined his company's performance and told…