Flash Player 9 For Linux Released
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux…
Cablecam Wows Football Fans with RTLinux
FSMLabs announced that its flagship RTLinux real-time software is now being used in Cablecam flying cameras used to film NFL and other sporting events. Cablecam is a provider of footage for NFL…
Save time with text editing one-liners
Text-editing operations are normally done interactively, inside a text editor application. Some tasks, however, can be accomplished quickly and easily, right from the UNIX command line. What's…
Zenoss names Open Source Luminary as chairman of the board
Zenoss Inc., a leading open source Network and Systems Monitoring software vendor, announced today that Andre M Boisvert has been elected Chairman of the Board. The appointment of Mr. Boisvert…
Open Source And Career Opportunities
Matt Asay has some good advice for folks asking him for career advice: "Work for an open source company."
I'd wholeheartedly agree. I'd like to add "or within the open source group of a…
Soft sell for open source apps
Enterprise software vendors that use open source business models may be few and far between, but they are out there. I recently spoke to Peter Schroer, president and founder of Aras, about his…
Sun attacks Linux with Solaris upgrades, support
Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding support services for its Solaris operating system on x86 platforms in a bid to compete with burgeoning Linux distributions.
Sun is clearly taking aim at…
Open source is good for the economy
Europe's lawmakers should "correct" policies that "implicitly or explicitly" favour the use of proprietary software, according to a newly published report from the European Commission (EC).
…DRM, GPLv3 just 'hot air': Linus Torvalds
Digital rights management and the General Public License cause a lot of 'hot air' to be exchanged but they are not a 'big deal', according to the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds.
DRM,…
Using open source as a marketing ploy
This morning News.com is running an article (Taking the plunge into open source) on how proprietary software companies are leveraging (bastardizing?) open source practices for some of their new…