Hans Reiser Selling His Company
Hans Reiser, the prominent Bay Area Linux programmer charged with murdering his wife, says he's seeking to sell off his open-source file system company, Namesys, to help pay mounting legal costs…
GNOME 2.17.4 Released
The second development release on the road towards GNOME 2.18.0, which will be released in March 2007. New features are coming in at a nice rate, and that's great. A lot of bug fixes too. And some…
Returning Author’s Rights: Termination of Transfer Tool
Creative Commons is excited to launch a beta version of its “Returning Authors Rights: Termination of Transfer” tool. The tool has been included in ccLabs — CC’s platform for demoing new tech…
NVIDIA Linux Display Driver 1.0-9746 Released
A new NVIDIA Linux display driver has been released. 1.0-9746 adds support for GeForce 8800 GTS and GeForce 8800 GTX boards.
NVIDIA Linux Display Driver 1.0-9746.
Activism and Promotion
Something that is really counterproductive in many Open Source communities are people who are so rabidly fanatical about one line of thinking that they try to pressure everyone into their line of…
Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal
The legendary Jeremy Allison (of Samba fame) has resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, which he calls "a mistake" which will be "damaging to Novell's success…
Microsoft Starts Handing Out SUSE Linux Subscriptions
In the seven weeks since Microsoft and Novell announced their controversial interoperability and patent protection agreement, Redmond has handed out some 16,000 subscription certificates for SUSE…
DNA found to be Nina Reiser's, forensic expert testifies
A expert in forensic investigations testified Wednesday that there is almost no chance blood lifted from a pillar in Hans Reiser's home and blood on a sleeping bag stuff sack found in his car is…
Debian delayed as community loses interest
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0--the next version of the Linux distribution--was due to be released by December 4, meaning that it is already more than two weeks late.
Now one of Debian's release…
Why No One's Buying Oracle's Linux
When Oracle (ORCL) announced its entry into the Linux business in October, people expected the software giant would upend the market, sending shares of Red Hat (RHT) down 24%. Now, however, it's…