First look at Linux Greenphone

Trolltech is the company that brought developers the Linux-based mobile application platform Qtopia, based on its Qt platform. In mid-August it also used the LinuxWorld conference to announce the…

New IBM Supercomputer to use Linux

IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, the…

Linux-based WiMAX board support packages to hit market

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. (FMA), Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), and Hopling Technologies announced today that the three companies have further enhanced their working…

GNOME 2.16 Released

The GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.16, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination…

Wind River Flying High With Linux

Software developer Wind River Systems has been getting some traction lately, as seen with the strength of its second-quarter results. On the news, the stock price rose 6% to $10.83. But the big…

Developers voting for Eclipse RCP

An open source, cross-platform desktop architecture from Eclipse is enjoying a surge of interest among developers according to an Evans Data Corp poll.

The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP…

Funambol Announces Bounties for its Community Code Sniper Program

Program pays open source developers up to $2,000 for extending mobile capabilities of community’s most wanted connectors and plug-ins for Skype, Gmail, Yahoo!, Open Office and others.

Penguins and presentations at Ohio LinuxFest 2006

This year's lineup continues the LinuxFest tradition of providing attendees with presentations from the most interesting voices in Linux and open source. Jeff Waugh, director of the GNOME…

2006 DC PHP Conference - Speakers and schedule

The 2006 DC PHP Conference group is pleased to announce our speaker and schedule lineup. The conference is taking place in downtown Washington, DC, USA at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, October 19-20,…

Advice To Linux: Kill The Penguin

Whenever I compare Linux or open-source technologies to their Microsoft-inspired counterparts, I invariably receive numerous e-mails agreeing or disagreeing with my conclusions. While many of…