Linus Torvalds talks future of Linux
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has, along with others like Richard Stallman, literally changed the world of software forever.
Linux-based distributions seem to pop up every…
Can Yahoo use open source to close Google gap?
Open source is always friend to the No. 2 player in a market and always the enemy of the top dog.
That appears to be the big lesson after connecting a few dots on various items popping up…
The Culture of Open Source
The spirit of the open source movement operates under the assumption that software’s most valued resource, its code, should be freely available to everyone. Despite the obvious advantages of…
Asterisk Creator Leads the Open Source VoIP Charge at VoiceCon 2007
Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, today announced that Asterisk creator and Digium Founder Mark Spencer will join leaders from Cisco, Avaya, IBM, Microsoft, Siemens and Skype to discuss the…
Adobe knocks open-source creative tools
Adobe has embraced open-source software for some products, but its Creative Suite portfolio looks like it will remain proprietary.
In a blog posting on Sunday, the company's top creative…
Microsoft vs. Google – the open source shame
"Somebody toss me a Che Guevara T-shirt. Google and Microsoft have gone to war over open source software.
On Aug. 10, Redmond submitted the Microsoft Permissive License to the Open Source…
Massively multicore processor runs Linux
A startup founded by an MIT professor claims to have "solved the fundamental challenges associated with multicore scalability." Tilera's first products include a 64-core Tile64 SoC (system-on-chip…
What is the truth about Sun and SCO?
Following Judge Kimball's declaration that the Unix System V copyrights belonged to Novell, Steven Vaughan-Nichols speculated about what the decision might mean for Sun, which updated its Unix…
Ask MainConcept to release MainActor as Open Source software
"MainConcept decided earlier this year to discontinue maintenance and distribution of MainActor Video Editing Software. MainActor was one of the most complete and affordable video editing software…
Advanced Security Management Tool for Linux
Trusted Computer Solutions announced the launch of Security Blanket, a system lock-down and security management tool that enables systems administrators to automatically configure and enhance the…