Debian at the crossroads

The Debian GNU/Linux project has come to some kind of crossroads - due to many factors, some of them artificial - and the man who takes over leadership next month will have to make some crucial…

Mandriva and O3Spaces Announce An Alliance

Mandriva will now distribute O3Spaces Workplace as part of the Corporate Server 4 and Mandriva Linux Powerpack+ 2007 Spring editions. The alliance also covers an extensive support agreement. This…

Collax updates its entire product family

Collax unveiled updates to each of its server solutions, now Collax Business Server 4.1.0, Collax Security Gateway 4.2.0 and Collax Open-Xchange Server 5.1.0 respectively.

All solutions…

Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails

"Although many people have asked for pre-installed Linux, and Dell seems to have listened, some still think that buying a naked PC won't be easy. But what about stripping it naked after you buy it…

Beryl and Compiz Merge: What's actually going on?

"Recently Quinns post to the beryl-dev mailing list entitled 'Merge on' has led to a lot of discussion, some of which has been good and some of which has led to a lot of misinformation, to clear…

SCO caught trying to change Wikipedia article and cover up Groklaw links.

From this post on Yahoo message boards, someone from within SCO has been caught trying to cover up info they don't like in Wikipedia's article on SCO, "sanitize" the Darl McBride article, and post…

Applying "The Art of War" to Open Source, Linux and BSD

Ask most people who have made the switch to a libre software product like Linux or BSD and they'll tell you that we're in a fight with Microsoft and everything that the closed-source world…

Reiser pleads not guilty in wife's slaying

Oakland computer programmer Hans Reiser pleaded not guilty last friday to murdering his estranged wife in a case that could go to a jury next month after he exercised his right to a speedy trial…

Weekly Wrap-up: The Hottest Linux community stories for the week Mar 24 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Sun Hires Debian Founder

- Beryl 0.2.1 fixes licensing issues, can…

Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring Released

Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring will provide up-to-date and freshly released open source software.

What is the key innovation of Spring? The breakthrough technology presented last January during…