Holiday Hardware Giveaway 2006
Just a reminder that our 6th annual Holiday Hardware Giveaway launched earlier this week. This year we're giving away an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual-Core Processor, Crucial 2GB Memory Kit, BFG…
Researcher Uncovers McAfee Linux VirusScan Flaw
A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in McAfee's VirusScan Command Line Scanner antivirus software that could enable remote attackers to execute malicious code.
The flaw…
The cloudy future of mobile Linux
Linux has been mentioned as a potentially leading platform for mobile devices for as long as there have been mobile devices. However, mobile Linux is still largely missing in action. The new crop…
Linux kernel gains serviceability features
The Linux kernel has been updated with several serviceability improvements, chiefly around the kdump and SystemTap features.
The kdump enhancements should improve the ability to reliably…
Venture Dollars Flow to Open Source
Open-source software, once seen as the province of propeller heads and anti-capitalist visionaries, is winning the respect of the most clear-eyed capitalists of all: the venture capital community…
Freeing a MMORPG - Free Ryzom
Free Software Foundation announces that it will officially support the Free Ryzom campaign with a pledge of $60,000.
The Free Ryzom campaign was established to purchase the online game and…
KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop?
Since beginning as a one-person project over ten years ago, the fourth generation of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) is poised to be the most business-friendly open source desktop to date with a…
Kerala On Linux Express Highway
God's own country Kerala is now closer to Linux. It has become India's first and the only state to have closed its doors to Windows and let Linux in. The drive was kindled by Richard Stallman's…
IBM, schools pursue open-source research
IBM, which has been a big backer of open-source software, is working with seven universities on new computing research projects whose fruits would be widely shared rather than held as intellectual…
Law In Business: Open source of confusion
At face value, the open source software (OSS) proposition looks too good to be true. Free, or at least inexpensive, software applications that provide equivalent functionality to much more…