GNOME Turns Ten
"We want to develop a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE but based entirely on free software." Those were the opening lines of Miguel De…
Linux Kernel 2.6.22.3 Released
"From the kernel mailing list: "[the -stable team] are announcing the release of the 2.6.22.3 kernel. This release has a few bugfixes so all users of the 2.6.22 series are encouraged to update to…
Ubuntu Servers Hacked
This last week, 5 of the 8 servers that are loco hosted but Canonical sponsored, had to be shut down due to reports that they were actively attacking other machines. These servers were found to…
SCO's Letter to Customers and Partners
SCO CEO Darl McBride has sent a letter to partners and customers about the ruling in SCO v. Novell and its impact on SCO as a company. We get the clearest hint yet of what SCO may be thinking for…
Oracle CEO Ellison: Open source software is no threat
Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison, on his first visit Israel last weekend, told TheMarker that collaborative open source software is nothing to be feared, and mocked the "Google-envy" he said…
MySQL defends paid tarball decision
MySQL has defended a decision to end free community access to the latest source code for its popular database in an attempt to snag paying customers.
Chief executive Marten Mickos said…
Microsoft and Xandros Expand Collaboration
Today, Microsoft Corp. and Linux platform provider Xandros announced a messaging protocol license and collaboration agreement that will enhance the interoperability of Scalix email servers with…
VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights
"Bloomberg believe VMware’s IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company’s supposedly proprietary ESX product, which may be derived from…
Linux and Windows Interoperability: On the Metal and On the Wire
"I had the opportunity to present at both OSCON in Portland and at LinuxWorld in San Francisco in the last three weeks – both O’Reilly and IDG were gracious enough to grant me a session on the…
Torvalds attacks Microsoft over open source
Microsoft is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt among open source users, Linus Torvalds said in an interview published last week.
The software giant is falling short with its technology…