Two new alleged license violations against Busybox
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed another two cases on behalf of BusyBox developers Erik Andersen and Rob Landley against High Gain Antennas, LLC of Parker, Calif., and Xterasys…
ATI Catalyst Linux 7.11 Released
The new ATI/AMD drivers are out. With 2.6.23 support, the Linux drivers now follow the same version scheme as the Windows ones.
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_711_linux.html
More progress for ODF
The OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance is highlighting today more forward progress for ODF. The public sectors in the Netherlands, South Africa and Korea have all recently taken steps to promote…
SCO Withdraws Asset Sale Motion
SCO has withdrawn its motion, the "emergency" motion, to sell its assets. No reason given. Maybe all the peals of laughter from the IBM and Novell attorneys at the hearing?
http://www.…
Open Source Java Turns One
On the 13th November 2006 Sun announced its decision to begin the process of open sourcing Java SE and ME under the GPL v.2. The decision was broadly welcomed, although Sun did lose two senior…
IT Pros face more barriers going to Mac OS X or Linux than in Vista
While Vista worries lead some IT pros to consider Mac OS X and Linux as alternatives, technology professionals will be facing different kind of technology barrier should they decide to adopt Mac…
Linux on Amazon's Kindle e-book reader
My colleague John Timmer reported yesterday on Amazon's new Kindle e-book reader. Kindle's software platform unsurprisingly runs on the Linux operating system and uses numerous open source…
Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 Now Available
The Mozilla Corporation today released Firefox 3 Beta 1, which is now available for download in a variety of languages. The beta includes updates to the default theme, the new places site…
KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1
The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now…
Java diagnostics with the Lock Analyzer Part 3
The IBM Lock Analyzer for Java, available from alphaWorks, provides real-time lock monitoring on a running Java application. This article introduces the IBM Lock Analyzer for Java, explains the…