Intel Releases Threading Library Under GPL 2
Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance…
Seven RFID Organizations Support Open-Source
A group of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology organizations today announced their support for the open-source development of EPCglobal-compliant Low-Level Reader Protocol (LLRP)…
Why desktop Linux fails in big organizations
I believe that the key reason Unix hasn’t taken over the generic office desktop has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the people and processes involved.
Thus the…
iPlayer faces petition pressure
An e-petition on the Downing Street website has called on parliament to stop the BBC launching its iPlayer to a Windows-only audience.
More than 10,000 people have signed the petition which…
Intel PR honcho puts spin on OLPC relationship
Earlier this month, Intel and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced that Intel has joined the OLPC board -- a surprise given the previously reported acrimonious relationship between…
Russian government to finance Linux version for schools
Russian Ministry of Finance approved RUR 3 bln financing from state budget for software on school computers. 1,9 bln from that would be spent on patented software, like Microsoft's and Adobe's…
How package management changed everything
What’s the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry?
It’s an interesting question, and one that in my opinion has a very simple answer: Package management—or, more…
Open source here to stay, says MySQL CEO Marten Mickos
As the CEO of Sweden-based open source database vendor MySQL AB, Marten Mickos knows about the role open source software can play in business and personal computing.
Despite a growing…
Now It's Spain and OOXML - More Standards Highjinks?
It seems there may have been more games played by Microsoft in the OOXML saga, or at the very least some confusion spread, and this time our story comes from Spain, where the government of…
Ubuntu lives in a closed system
Ten days into July, Canonical, the company which is best known for the Ubuntu Linux distribution, released the source code for one component of Launchpad - a system that serves as a single…