GNOME 2.18.0 Release Candidate (2.17.92)
Here we go: this is the last unstable release before 2.18.0. We've all added cool features, important bug fixes, great translations, or shiny documentation during the past six months. And it'll be…
The Terrible State of WiFi in Linux
Articles like this just kill me. Granted, this piece was written a while back, and even considering the date in which the piece was first put together, it remains the single biggest mess that I…
Compiz will be installed by default in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Updates today have made compiz a dependency of ubuntu-desktop, which means it will be installed by default with Ubuntu feisty fawn. Although this doesn't mean it will be enabled by default it's…
The commie smear against open source
Often proprietary companies trot out their FUD that open source is somehow socialist, communist, as pink as its programmers' underwear. Here's the truth.
The commie smear against open…
Firefox 3.0 opens door to Web apps
If the Firefox browser were a car, it would be in the garage right now being souped up by an anxious group of gearheads.
When Firefox 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source…
$1.89 billion in open source funding
While some of us were skiing or eating during the Christmas holidays, Matthew Aslett was crunching the numbers on total open source investments since 2000. The answer? A whopping $1.89 billion.…
Why Dell and other major hardware vendors won't do desktop Linux preinstallation
Dell's recent IdeaStorm experiment reveals increasing demand for Linux and open-source software on the desktop. Since that time, Dell has said that it is still not committed to selling laptops and…
How Open Is "Open"? – Industry Luminaries Join the Debate
Need an "open source" company nowadays merely be "a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company"?
Nat Torkington raised this week the very real question of…
Help Lobby Washington To Protect Open Source from Software Patents
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property is making another attempt to reform patent law. I need your help to lobby them to add protection from software…
Sun sponsors Free Software Foundation
Sun Microsystems has become a "patron" sponsor of the Free Software Foundation, the organization founded by Richard Stallman that ultimately spawned the open-source software movement.
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