WordPress makes a stand for open source morality
The open source aspect is important. "For me, open source is a moral thing. Software should be free; it's our philosophy as a company," he says. There is one exception: Akismet, his spam detection…
Canonical chases deal to ship Ubuntu server OS
Canonical, the company that supports Ubuntu Linux, is trying to work out a deal with hardware vendors such as Dell to make Ubuntu available preinstalled on servers.
So far, Canonical has…
Fortify Identifies Vulnerabilities in Open Source Software
Fortify Software announced that Fortify’s Security Research Group has identified a new class of security vulnerabilities, known as cross–build injection. These vulnerabilities, which Fortify…
MPlayer 1.0rc2 Released
MPlayer now supports Real RTSP authentication and the libnemesi streaming library as an alternative to live555. Also, many QuickTime over RTSP streams can now be played. There have been various…
IBM SOA Sandbox
People, process, information, reuse, and connectivity – five simple ways to get started with SOA. This SOA Sandbox makes it easy to learn about these entry points by providing a low-risk "tinker…
Pentaho Delivers First Open Source Metadata and Ad Hoc Reporting Capabilities
Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced delivery of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6. The new release provides general…
Making Open Source Software More "Humane"
A lot of digital ink is spilled over the usability of open source software and how a lack thereof hinders the adoption of both Linux and open source software packages in general. Among the…
Kernel 2.6.23 Released
2.6.23 includes the new, better, fairer CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support,…
GroundWork Open Source Selected by Pitney Bowes
GroundWork Open Source, Inc. today announced the signing of another global customer, Group 1 Software, Inc., a Pitney Bowes company. Group 1, the world’s leading provider of mailstream software,…
The Artwork of Fedora 8
Over the past few releases, Fedora has gained a reputation amongst the various distributions for having some of the best artwork out there. This time around, responsibility has been handed over…