Xandros Desktop - Professional Released
Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows, today announced the addition of "Xandros Desktop - Professional," featuring advanced 3D desktop graphics effects,…
openSUSE holds public IRC Q&A on Microsoft/Novell deal
OpenSUSE project developers held a public IRC meeting at noon EST Monday to discuss the recently announced and highly controversial Microsoft/Novell agreements. Nat Friedman, chief technical and…
The GPL, Stage Front and Center - IBM Answers SCO's Attack
I hope Novell and Microsoft read this quotation from this IBM filing, its Redacted Memorandum in Opposition to SCO's Motion for Summary Judgment on IBM's Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Counterclaims.…
YellowDog Linux 5 for the PS3 Released
Six months of design, engineering, integration, and testing has culminated in the finest release from Terra Soft to date. Designed, not just assembled, Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 featuring E17 is…
Question Novell at Cape FOSS event
The Cape Information Technology Initiative (CITI) will be hosting a lineup of forums, presentations and Q&A sessions next week. Offering a full morning of discussions, presentations and Q&…
Linux hot, standards not with China, Taiwan
Earlier this year, members of Chinese and Taiwanese IT associations announced broad plans to work together to jointly develop and promote Linux as well as home-grown standards for certain IT…
Linux on Zune soon?
According to reports from gadget-watchers, and a few who have physically ripped open the device, the Zune runs the Freescale i.MX31 multimedia processor - used widely in consumer electronics, such…
Transcript of Richard Stallman's speech from GPLv3
"The 5th international GPLv3 conference was held in Tokyo last week. I've made and published a transcript of Stallman's talk where he described the latest on what GPLv3 will do about the MS/Novell…
French MPs dump Windows for Linux
After the gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture, it's the French MPs' turn to switch to open source. From June 2007, PCs in French députés' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system…
UK pays lip service to open source in schools
The UK's Open Source Consortium has joined criticism of UK government education policy towards open source software, maintaining that the British Education Communications and Technology Agency '…