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Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, and SpikeSource, a provider of open-source software and services, today announced that SpikeSource will certify its business-ready open-source applications for Ubuntu and deliver support for Ubuntu through its channel of solution providers.

ODBMS.ORG Publishes Ted Neward's Analysis of Approaches in the Light of Vietnam War Analogy

There is a growing need in the Open Source community for a complete and dedicated project management solution, such as Microsoft Groove 2007 (which is not without its faults and which, unsurprisingly, is proprietary). If you want to see such an application become a reality, please read this post and share your thoughts.

I dig the fact that within about 1 minutes time (while, before, after) installing my desktop, I can be groovin' on my favorite tunes or catching a funny video online. OK -- I don't watch that many videos, but sometimes the chillen and I will watch some movie previews on apple trailers. We say things like " COOL! and "that was darn cool" is a favorite of my almost-six-year-old. How 'bout you? Got music?

The long tail effect of open source has some interesting implications when it comes to backup software. This blog discusses some of these implications.

Cisco is ceasing development of its network access control client software, called Cisco Trust Agent, and will submit the code to the open-source community.

Use konqueror and kate for your remote file management. These two are born to work together.

One of the Ajax features available in IBM Rational Application Developer is the Typeahead component. Go beyond the most straightforward use cases, and into more advanced Typeahead usage.

Fourteen months ago, the Autopackage project was small and active, and members sounded optimistic about its success. Now, although the alternative installer project continues, progress has almost come to a halt. The #autopackage channel on irc.oftc.net sits vacant most days, the developer blogs cover almost anything except the project, and commits to the source code repository have become rare. Formally, the project is still alive, but the major contributors all agree that it is faltering. So what happened?

We are pleased to announce some exciting upcoming events in the Ubuntu project. We are looking forward to the release of Ubuntu 7.04 in April 07, but our gaze also shifts beyond that to ...

This Recipe will tell you how to install and optimize VMware Server, a software virtual machine emulator that lets you run Linux and one or more other operating systems at the same time, each in a separate window. In most cases this means Windows, though other OSes can be run as well.

When asked about security on a multi-user Linux system, a wise man once said "everyone is root if you allow them to login as a user." There is plenty of truth in that, but embracing imminent compromise isn't always acceptable. Charlie Schluting takes a look at how you can limit your exposure while letting unknown and untrusted users login with a shell.

Motorola is showcasing its Linux and "kJava" based music phone for U.S. and European markets, at the 3GSM World Congress this week in Barcelona. The MotoRIZR Z6 is said to be based on a "new Linux operating system that incorporates kJava."

LOS ANGELES -- The fifth annual Southern California Linux Expo last weekend at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel brought in more than 1,200 paying attendees. SCALE featured a wide range of talks on topics from Inkscape to OpenNMS, and an exhibit hall with about 70 projects and companies from the Linux and open source community. While the quality of the talks varied, the show was a good opportunity to meet and learn from other Linux users.

With today's new KateOS Live 3.2 release it finally included a new installer. The new KateOS installer is graphical (a first for the KateOS project) and should be a huge improvement over its text-based installer for new (and even existing) users. I couldn't help but to try out the new KateOS Live 3.2 Beta, so in this blog entry I have a few thoughts to share about this new installer.

The open source PHP language is intensifying its enterprise challenge to Java this week, thanks to a new version of the enterprise class Zend Platform.

Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away.

Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton last week revealed some of his plans for the next kernel version, a few days after the final release of Linux 2.6.20. Developers are currently revving up the development phase of the 2.6.21 kernel, with major additions planned for the next week or two, before beginning to lock down and stabilize the software. In a message to the kernel developers' mailing list, Morton indicated what some of the major new components will be in 2.6.21. One change will be improvements to the KVM virtualization system, which made its debut in 2.6.20, along with an implementation of paravirtualization.

This week FSF Europe (FSFE) announced the release of its Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA), a form of copyright assignment in which a free software project can place its collective copyright under the control of a single organization or trustee. The agreement is designed to reduce the problems in managing copyrights in large projects, and to reconcile differences in copyright worldwide. However, exactly how important, useful, or necessary the FLA is depends upon whom you talk to in the free software community. To some extent, FSFE even seems to be operating contrary to the advice of the original Free Software Foundation in the United States.

Document storage is hot, hot, hot! There has been an explosion of methodologies and tool sets -- both open source and proprietary -- to fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents. Mash Apache Derby with a new OpenOffice 2.0 feature> to create a repository that lets you store, search, and extract ODF documents in a standards-based manner.