Spending on open source support services in Canada to soar
The market for open source support services is going to boom over the next five years, according to a recent Gartner survey. The study of organizations in geographies around the world – including…
Mindquarry Forms Up With an Open Source Team Software
Mindquarry offers the first Open Source alternative to Microsoft's Sharepoint Server or IBM's Lotus Connections. The free download is available at www.mindquarry.com. Mindquarry eases especially…
The Emerging Dell-Linux-Apple War
While we spend a lot of time talking about Linux vs. Windows and Windows vs. the MacOS, the real battle for the Windows desktop alternative may be the preliminary round between the MacOS and Linux…
Novell Reports Preliminary Financial Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2007
Novell announced preliminary financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31, 2007. These financial results are preliminary because Novell, during the third fiscal quarter of 2006,…
Dell censors IdeaStorm Linux dissent
It seems pointless seeking ideas and feedback if you’re going to ignore and delete the ones you don’t like. That’s exactly what Dell is doing with its IdeaStorm web site, which has been set up by…
Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)
The Fedora team is please to announce the second test release for Fedora 7.
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DVD and network installation are available.
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Eric Raymond: Yes, "open source" is still meaningful
Writing in O'Reilly's Radar, Nat Torkington argues that the term "open source" is becoming meaningless. He points to SugarCRM's badgeware, through which, he claims, only two-thirds of their code…
Who wrote 2.6.20?
"LWN.net did some data mining through the kernel source repository and put together an analysis of where the patches came from. It turns out that most kernel code is contributed by people paid to…
Registration Opens for First Red Hat Challenge
Red Hat announced the launch of the first Red Hat Challenge, a contest for graduate students to formulate a group concept plan in response to a business challenge question. The Red Hat Challenge…
Automate GUI testing with TestNG-Abbot
TestNG-Abbot is a testing framework that breathes new life into testing GUI components. Understand the scenario and you'll find it surprisingly easy to isolate GUI components and then verify them…