Mandriva open office in Lagos
Mandriva West Africa to start operations in February 2007 to offer the Mandriva Linux operating system and open source applications and solutions to individuals, educational institutions, public…
SA government to switch to open source
The South African Cabinet today announced that it had approved a free and open source strategy and that government would migrate its current software to free and open source software.
At a…
Ten Leading Open Source Innovators
Open source discussion has moved from Linux to innovation happening beyond the popular operating system. Open source models are flourishing in CRM (SugarCRM – www.sugarcrm.com), Messaging (Scalix…
Download the Linux kernel v0.01 -- It's only around 10,000 lines
The 0.01 kernel downloads to about 10,000 lines of C and assembler, which is fairly manageable. Note that it's a barely functional UNIX with tons of bugs, but that doesn't stop it being useful.…
ATI Proprietary Linux Drivers(8.34.8)
ATI Proprietary Linux Drivers(8.34.8) has been released, mainly bug fixes.
KOffice 1.6.2 Released
The KOffice team today released KOffice 1.6.2, the second bug-fix release in their 1.6 series. Although this is a maintenance release, there are some new features in Krita (new filters and a…
Cisco retreats on open-source NAC plans
Cisco has performed an abrupt U-turn and will not now be releasing ts NAC client software code to the open source community. Earlier this month, Bob Gleichauf, CTO of the company's Security…
KDE at Guademy, Spain and FOSS MEET, India
A joint KDE and Gnome meeting is taking place in Spain next month called Guademy. The objectives are to create new projects and initiatives of collaboration between both Desktops and allow new…
Carnegie Mellon Folds Open Source Into New Degree Offering
Carnegie Mellon West's Software Management program is built on the university's existing software engineering curriculum, the school explained, but adds a business and organizational component…
Eric S. Raymond dumps Fedora
After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end…