SourceForge Announces 2007 Community Choice Awards Winners

SourceForge announced the winners of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards in Portland, OR, at an evening celebration held during the OSCON conference. The awards recognize…

Ontario Linux Fest 2007

Ontario Linux Fest is a conference designed to present compelling topics of interest to users of Linux and Open Source software. These topics span a range of interests from technical to…

Microsoft launches Open Source site

Today, Microsoft took another step in its relationship with the open source software community. By bringing up a new web property that clearly outlines Microsoft’s position on OSS by providing…

Hungary competition watchdog raids Microsoft office

Hungary's competition authority (GVH) has announced that it raided Microsoft Corp's Hungarian subsidiary, on suspicion that the firm had abused its market power when dealing with software…

German court convicts Skype of GPL breach

A German court has ruled that Skype violated the General Public License version 2 by selling a Linux-based phone without access to the source code.

Skype sells the WSKP100 phone, made by…

Spread the word, share this ODF artwork

Red Hat graphic designers are no strangers to the pains of proprietary formats. Over the years, many have lost photographs, archived projects, and important portfolio work when formats have been…

New Linux computer has 1,024 Dual-Core Processors and 4000 GB of RAM

NASA's new SGI Altix system is expected to be installed in August at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center. The new system will be the first supercomputer to…

Streaming of Satellite Channels into a LAN

Nowadays the main source of digital TV channels is receiving them from satellites using DVB-S technology. This method is notable for simplicity of deploying and variety of multimedia content on…

Halluc II the Transformer tank robot runs on Linux

Halluc II a robot developed by Japan's Chiba institute of technology has 8 wheels and a lot of sensors. It can move in six mysterious ways, including going forward, sideways, up steps and slopes.…

Linux Foundation Names Markus Rex as CTO

The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux , today announced that Markus Rex, a long-time Linux executive at SUSE Linux AG and Novell, will…