Free Ubuntu laptops for French students
Five thousand French students now have laptops running Ubuntu, thanks to a local government initiative.
The Centre Region’s local authority has distributed the computers to second-year…
Funambol Announces Phone Sniper Community Program
Funambol, the mobile open source software company, today announced the Phone Sniper community program. By providing incentives and recognition to community members for testing cell phones’ ability…
Interview with the developer of Pixel (Photoshop-like app)
Pixel (formerly Pixel32) is an image editing program, similar to Photoshop or Gimp, that runs on a large variety of platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Zeta, OS X, SkyOS and more. In an 8 year period, it…
Windows servers at risk at Linux-friendly Bartter
Local poultry producer Bartter Enterprises is evaluating the future of around 70 Microsoft Windows servers, in the context of a recent migration of other systems to Red Hat Linux.
Bartter…
Why There is Better Driver Support in 64-bit Linux Than 64-bit Windows XP
I use Linux everyday, it is the main operating system on my PC and I use it for everything. I have a 64-bit Athlon machine and I run SUSE 10.1 64 bit. Recently someone bought be a copy of Windows…
Another slip in the FC6 schedule
Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we decided were important enough to fix. There were some multilib compose issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs),…
Xen - A GPLed Virtualisation Technology for Linux
Linux had always lacked a Open Source virtualisation technology in the same league as Solaris containers or commercial product like Vmware. That was until Xen came into the picture. Xen is an…
eBay snubs sellers running Linux
Recent changes to eBay's selling pages no longer offers all features to Linux users. Full selling features are not available from Linux platforms, including uploading photos of items.
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JBoss Updates Hibernate, Certifies on Java Persistence
JBoss, a division of Red Hat, today released Hibernate 3.2, the latest update to the company's powerful, award-winning Java object/relational mapping software. By user demand, JBoss has simplified…
Leaked letter warns of open source 'threat to eco-system'
A leaked letter to the European Commission has revealed the extent of lobbying by proprietary software groups to prevent the widespread adoption of open-source software.
Sent in response to…