Linux Vs. Mac: Which Is The Better Alternative To Microsoft Windows?

If you're a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple's OS X?

Linux Vs. Mac: Which Is The Better Alternative To Microsoft…

MS Open XML Now in Equal Standing with ODF

Late today, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced that it has formally ratified the 4.0 version of its Enterprise Technical Reference Policy. As a result, Microsoft's Office Open XML format…

GNOME 2.19.6 Released

This is our sixth development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007. New features are still arriving, so your mission is simple : Go download it. Go…

Acer installing Linux on some notebooks, but not Ubuntu

Acer Inc. did not install the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but the company is installing a different version of the open-source operating system…

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Beta

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of 5.1 (kernel-2.6.18-36.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products.

Why don't you use more free software?

In a typically hilarious, profanity-laced rant, Fake Steve Jobs goes off on Linux zealots after reading a DesktopLinux.com piece on Microsoft's market-share gains in China from selling Windows for…

Linux and virtualization create a shift in the data cente

Citing research culled from the past year, analysts today said technologies like Linux, open source software and virtualization will converge at this year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San…

The pendulum has swung in the open source debate

Once upon a time, the term "open source" was coined to save the free-software world from itself. Or, rather, from the free-software zealots, as you can read on the Open Source Initiative's website…

Torvalds rebukes desktop critics

Linus Torvalds, creator and maintainer of the Linux operating system kernel, has reacted angrily to suggestions that the kernel's development process is skewed in a way that prevents improvements…

Magento to be Distributed Under Open Software License

"Varien is committed to the open source community and in that spirit we are pleased to announce Magento will be distributed under the Open Software License (OSL 3.0), an OSI-approved open source…