OSDL Mobile Linux Initiative Gains Another Heavy Hitter

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), the global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux® and open source software, today announced that Chinese handset manufacturer Datang…

Collax Security Gateway Adds Advanced Spam Protection

Two New Integrated Protection Methods Improve Cascaded Spam Protection, Ease Administration.

Small businesses looking for tight network security, with easy administration will find both…

Why We Need an Open Source Second Life

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last six months, you will have noticed that the virtual world Second Life is much in the news. According to its home page, there are currently…

Hans Reiser pleads not guilty

An Oakland man pleaded not guilty today to killing his estranged wife, whose body is still missing more than two months after she disappeared.

Hans Reiser, 42, entered a not-guilty plea in…

Consequences, Intended and Otherwise

Don’t think for a second that Microsoft isn’t howling over the Linux community’s apparent fragmentation over this deal, with the OpenSUSE and Ubuntu camps now publicly trading barbs (and both are…

Open source and management disputes

Open source vendors can't be run like their closed source counterparts. The programming talent, and the people behind that talent, aren't like other managers.

I thought of this when looking…

LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling Launches Linux Toolkit

LightScribe today announced the immediate release of publicly-available Linux development tools for its Direct Disc Labeling technology. The LightScribe Linux public software development kit (SDK…

Drupal 5 Beta 2 Released

Drupal 5.0 beta 2 release is out in public. Countless bug fixes and over 160 committed patches, version 5 is starting to take shape. Get involved with the best Content Managment Software out there…

Red Hat dumping Nasdaq for NYSE

Red Hat expects its shares to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange beginning December 12, the Linux seller said earlier this month.

The Raleigh, N.C.-based company said it expects…

Trolltech ready-made software suites for Linux-based mobile phones

Trolltech, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use, today announced a new development initiative, Qtopia Greensuite. The Initiative actively addresses reducing a…