Four Google open source tools on Google Code

Over the past two years, Google has released several infrastructure tools as open source software. Google Code project hosting has four new tools available.

gflags: Commandline flags module…

Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference

Gomez, Inc., the leader in web application experience management, today announced that its recently appointed Chief Open Source Evangelist, Patrick Lightbody, will discuss the challenges of…

New GPL draft due Wednesday

The third discussion draft of GPL version 3 is scheduled for release at 7 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, Brett Smith, a licensing compliance engineer for the Free Software Foundation said in a mailing…

Linux Camp To Sabotage Microsoft-Novell Deal

The non-profit group that owns rights to much of the Linux operating system says it will seek to undermine a controversial deal between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. through a new software…

Viacom Hates Open Source (and Small Children in the Third World)

In its disputes with YouTube, Viacom has pulled the video of two developers from the Open Source Lab playing NES on the OLPC.

Viacom Hates Open Source (and Small Children in the Third World…

Sys Admin magazine Announces First Sys Admin Technical Conference

CMP Technology's Sys Admin magazine, the journal for Unix and Linux systems administrators, today announced the first Sys Admin Technical Conference will take place May 7-8 at the Sheraton Inner…

Critical Open Source Software Projects Receive 6,000 Bug Fixes in First Year of Coverity Scan Site

Coverity, Inc., makers of the world’s most advanced source code analysis solution, today celebrated the one year anniversary of the scan.coverity.com project that was started under an open source…

Xandros Linux Server to Bundle Scalix 11 Enterprise-Class Collaboration Platform

Xandros, Inc., the leading provider of intuitive end-to-end Linux solutions, and Scalix, the leading Linux email, calendaring and messaging company, today announced that the forthcoming Xandros…

Open Source Email Making Microsoft Nervous

For a number of years Microsoft has been working hard to put Novell’s Groupwise and IBM’s Lotus Domino systems on the back burner, with a certain amount of success. Now it seems that the main…

Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone and SDK Review Addendum

Shortly after publishing this review, we were contacted by Trolltech in regards to the concerns we had over the licensing of the Greenphone. As a response, Trolltech has since changed the wording…