How Open Source Software Informs Journalism
Networked journalism takes obvious cues from the open source software movement, but because the two seem so distant it helps to spell out these parallels. Below are 10 examples of how the software…
Joomla! - Open Source Content Management System Award Winner
Packt Publishing today (14 November) announced Joomla! as the the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award.
With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source…
Debian Installer Etch Release Candidate 1 released
The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first release candidate (RC1) of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch.
http://times.debian.net/1033-Debian-Installer-Etch-Release-…
Microsoft will probably start selling/distributing linux soon
Anyone can tell you an interesting story, but when it comes to Microsoft and Novell’s recent deal Linux enthusiasts around the world have more than a couple up their sleeves.
Microsoft has…
Red Hat Drives Open Source Adoption Through Events
Red Hat announced its flagship events for 2007, including the Red Hat Summit 2007, JBoss World 2007 and FUDCON 2007. Red Hat is designing these events to encourage content-driven agendas for the…
Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project
The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation. LinuxBIOS celebrates its Sixth anniversary this year, and has an…
Linus Torvalds is a Hero according to Time Magazine
By giving away his software, the Finnish programmer earned a place in history. Linus Torvalds makes it on to Time magazine's 60 Years Of Heroes!
http://www.time.com/time/europe/hero2006/…
How Red Hat Lost Friends And Gained New Enemies
Red Hat, once the little company that could, for years could do no wrong. It rode the rising popularity of Linux to become a $280 million-a-year company with a market cap as high as $6 billion,…
Mandriva Linux 2007 package repositories
Some new package repositories have been added to Mandriva Linux 2007 recently, so here's an article to recap all the existing ones and explain the new ones.
There are two types of software…
Large public-sector Linux project flops
Birmingham City Council began the project — one of the largest public-sector Linux projects in the UK — in May 2005 to evaluate the potential of open-source software. The council, the largest…