Open source companies to watch
Open source software is a given in most enterprise data centers, so it's not surprising to see the ranks of open source companies and projects swell. It's not just Linux anymore - community-…
Motorola Gets Serious About Linux
Last quarter, Motorola was the second biggest smartphone maker in the world, thanks largely to the million or so Linux-based smartphones it shipped in China.
Clearly, Motorola has seen the…
ReactOS 0.3.0 Released
This release holds a few records - it is the most long-awaited release of ReactOS, it is the release which was preceded by 3 Release Candidates instead of usual 2, and at last ReactOS release…
IBM announces 'Beyond Linux' strategy
IBM is expanding its open source strategy beyond Linux by targeting eight new technology areas where it will focus open source attention going forward.
Last week at LinuxWorld in San…
New York Times won't let Linux users view (some) videos
There is no technical reason why a GNU/Linux user running the proprietary Flash player can't view New York Times video, but for some reason that newspaper's honchos have decided to limit video…
SCALE 5x Issues Call For Papers
SCALE 5x, the Southern California Linux Expo has issued a call for papers. SCALE 5x will be held on Feb 10-11, 2007 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. Past speakers have included Chris Dibona,…
Microsoft offers support to Mozilla
Let’s face it. Microsoft till date has been no friend of the open-source movement. There is enough bad-blood between open source evangelists and Microsoft to fill up pages. However this could be…
Ubuntu update flaw
An update was released for Dapper on 21 August 2006 UTC, which has been found to cause problems on certain systems.
A subsequent update published 17 hours later corrects this, so if your…
Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide
Check out this Ubuntu starter guide maintained by the Linux Center of University of Latvia. A great resource for anyone using Ubuntu. It’s Wiki based too, so feel free to contribute.
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Flash 9 for Xubuntu (Kind-of)
When Flash 8 and 9 weren’t released for Linux, I thought, "why doesn’t someone just edit Flash’s code and change the 7 to a 9?" Turns out it’s possible. Here’s how:
1) Make a back-up of the…