OpenMoko already facing difficulties?

Just a few days after going on sale, OpenMoko has received at least a thousand orders, but has since gone quiet. Nothing has shipped and no update on planned shipping dates. One developer (Harald…

AIX 6 Open Beta

Download AIX 6 and start gaining experience today. AIX 6 extends the leadship features of AIX to include exciting new capabilities for virtualization, security, continuous availability and…

OrangeHRM Launches version 2.2 of the HR Management System

OrangeHRM today announced the launch of version 2.2 of their flagship OrangeHRM web-based open-source human resource management system. The new version, which is the result of communication and…

BBC Trust to hear open sourcers' iPlayer gripes

The BBC Trust has asked to meet open source advocates to discuss their complaints over the corporation's Windows-only on demand broadband TV service, iPlayer.

The development came less than…

Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' As Open Source Debate Turns Nasty

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and likened them to religious fanatics…

HBA Technology Accepted Into Linux Kernel

Emulex Corporation today announced its LightPulse Virtual Host Bus Adapter (HBA) driver is the first to be accepted into the Open Source Linux kernel. Emulex's LightPulse Virtual HBA technology…

Open Source Inventory Analysis

OpenLogic announced the general availability of OpenLogic Discovery, a free software tool that helps enterprises inventory the open source software installed on their computer systems. OpenLogic…

Java Technology: Asserting architectural soundness

Paul Duvall returns from his hiatus in this installment of Automation for the People to demonstrate how you can discover architectural deviations by writing tests using JUnit, JDepend, and Ant to…

Member of Parliament Patrick Harvie Talks to KDE

The final talk on Saturday at aKademy 2007 was from Patrick Harvie, a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Green Party. While not a technical wizard like most of the other talks of the day,…

Ubuntu Dell is $225 More Than Windows Dell

"The full price of a Ubuntu Inspiron 1420N is indeed $50 cheaper than the identical hardware configuration with Vista — except that a $275 free upgrade to 2GB memory and a 160-GB hard drive is…