Did Microsoft copy the Ubuntu Logo?

Did Microsoft copy the Ubuntu Logo? Take a look at this image and judge for yourself, comments are welcome.


Shown is the current logo for the Ubuntu Linux distribution and…

LPI Announces New Training Partners around the World

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the premier Linux certification organization worldwide, announced new LPI Approved Training Partners (LPI-ATP) in Africa, Europe and Latin America. This…

NASA uses open-source development to create new glove

Call it open-source, crowd-source, user-generated, whatever: the anyone-can-contribute, cream rises to the top no matter its origin model exemplified by everything from the Firefox browser to the…

Novell unleashes hundreds of developers for SUSE Hack Week

Novell is setting its entire Linux engineering team loose to hack on whatever Linux or open source projects interest them for the week of June 25 - 29. To make it easier for hackers to find and…

Firefox 3 and Google team up for offline apps

Mozilla and Google are collaborating on an effort to make web applications work offline.

Firefox 3 will be the first internet browser to offer offline web application support when it…

Linux becomes mature and achieves excellence

In recent years, the world's leading software and hardware providers such as IBM and Intel are rushing to do compatibility testing and quality authentication with China's local Linux products. It…

Linux coders tackle power efficiency

Maybe you'd be better off if you didn't spend so much time looking at your watch.

That, loosely speaking, is the rationale behind a significant change at the heart of Linux that programmers…

Goldman Sachs: Linux Will Dominate in the Corporate Data Center

There's a very interesting paper published by Goldman Sachs and posted by Hewlett Packard, Fear the Penguin. You will recall that both companies sent representatives to join Steve Ballmer and Ron…

Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand player

The BBC is being threatened with an anti-trust challenge in Europe over its use of the Windows Media format in its on demand service, iPlayer, which is in the final stages of testing.

Microsoft's caught distributing Ubuntu?

This is too funny not to show you. Microsoft has a site for downloads of various software products, not just their own. It's called Windows Marketplace. Yesterday, for a brief shining moment, you…