Introducing the Hardy Heron - Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron has just been announced on the Ubuntu-devel-announce list. Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free…
Linux Driver Copyright Violation
"After years of encouragement from the OpenBSD community for others to use Reyk Floeter's free atheros wireless driver, it seems that the Linux world is finally listening. Unfortunately, they seem…
Microsoft cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the following statement in response to claims by Microsoft regarding their obligations under the GNU GeneralPublic License version 3 (GPLv3).…
LeapFrog Jumps into Open Source
Leapfrog Enterprises, maker of children's learning toys and electronics, is in the process of ramping up its Internet operations to serve a new series of Web-aware educational products. At the…
Open Source E-Procurement Project
First Freely Downloadable E-Procurement Software Solution Continues to Gain Momentum with More than 7,500 Downloads and new release.
Coupa e-Procurement Express v1.5, the latest version of…
Linux, Windows duke it out over energy efficiency
The battles for energy efficiency aren't just being fought by chipmakers, server and PC vendors, and other hardware companies out there. There's a similar battle heating up on the OS layer between…
Applying open-source principles
Although open-source software has, strictly speaking, only been available for less than ten years, it has resulted in products that rival mainstream packages and operating systems from the world's…
Microsoft beats back Linux
The theory goes that Linux, the open-source operating system, will replace Windows as the preferred software to run servers. Over time, the cost advantage of software created by a community of…
The Big Failure of the Free Software Foundation
Explaining what freedom in computing is about, is also talk about the FSF and/or the GNU project; they’re nothing less than the flagship of the free software movement and they’ve made huge steps…
Pencils Down for KOffice Summer of Code Students
With an avalanche of last-minute commits, the KOffice Google Summer of Code students finished yet another great Summer of Code. We had some very exciting projects this year, and most of them were…