LinuxWorld San Francisco – Open Source Is Everywhere

DG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows and events has announced that attendee registration for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2007 is now open. The theme for this year’s…

Wine 0.9.35 Released

Wine 0.9.35 was released today, with the following main changes:

* Broken aRts sound driver now removed for good.
* Many fixes to the Quartz DLL sound support.…

SCO About to Face Delisting Trouble, Again

Most of you probably remember the delisting trouble SCO got into because they failed to timely file their 10-K back in 2005. The same story will show up again soon, but this time for another…

The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software

Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. In this new environment, developers strive to be…

Linux and Solaris face off

Earlier this year, we asked our readers why people thinking of Linux aren't also thinking of OpenSolaris (or vice versa), now that both are pukka OSS operating systems.

Well, one reason…

CentOS 5 Released

CentOS-5 is based on the upstream release 5, and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end…

Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Bill Gates on Making ACPI Not Work with Linux

Bill Gates: "Maybe we can define the APIs so that they work weel with NT and not the others even if they are open. Or maybe we could patent something related to this."

Newly-leaked…

GPLv3 Draft 3 Survey by OpenLogic

OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the results of a survey regarding the most recent draft of the GPL v3…

40 Students To Work On KDE During GSoC 2007

The KDE project is happy to announce the selection of 40 KDE projects for the Google Summer of Code 2007. This is the third consecutive year that KDE is participating in the initiative. Though…

Real Life xeyes

A while ago I had the idea of porting xeyes to real life. After I had them readily standing around for some time now, I decided to finally install them behind a window in the 1st floor so they can…