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Terra Soft solutions has announced Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 for both the Sony Playstation 3 and legacy PowerPC-based Macs.

FSG to Create a Central, Community-Based Destination for Software Developers Writing Portable Linux Applications

Choice: it's one of the key ideas at the heart of free software.  The right to choose how to use your software, the right to choose who you share it with.  Who could be against choice?  Certainly not theInitiative for Software Choice, except that it has a slightly different view of what choice implies: To encourage continued software innovation and promote broad choice, governments are encouraged to consider the following neutral principles: Procure software on its merits, not through categorical preferences Promote broad availability of government funded research Promote interoperability through platform-neutral standards Maintain a choice of strong intellectual property protections

The rumor that Oracle Corp is about to enter the Linux distribution business will not go away, with investment bank Jefferies and Co the latest to throw fuel on to the fire with the suggestion that Oracle could announce its strategy before the end of the month.

The rapidly-developing Kexi database application and Krita image editor tool are the key highlights of the latest version of the KOffice suite released yesterday by the KDE project team.

Sony's PlayStation 3 set to move in on personal computers with the release of the Linux operating system for the device. Linux developer Terra Soft Solutions will today announce the launch of its Yellow Dog Linux operating system for the PlayStation 3 games console.

As the battle between Microsoft and software vendors continues to rage on in the foreground, it seems like a lot of people have completely forgotten about the common user and their experience with the OS.

Commentary: The process of producing the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) may not be doomed, but, as Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers heat up the rhetoric, it does seem stalled. If the process continues in the way that it has been going, a large number of current users of the GPL may not switch to the new license. Unless the free and open source software (FOSS) communities are willing to risk the possible consequences of that result, it's time for a change of tactics.

Strong Linux smartphone sales in China helped Motorola achieve the highest overall year-on-year growth among the top five vendors in the PDA/Smartphone market, according to Gartner. In contrast, Motorola's Symbian- and Microsoft-based smartphones are "not making significant progress," Gartner reports.

Explore technical issues in video playback, and see how a blend of hardware and software achieves good performance at a reasonable cost. Learn how to show movies on a scriptable, network connected appliance. Also, Lewin Edwards reveals that MP3 does not mean MPEG-3, which alone is worth the price of admission.

What can we say? Some people need that Frontpage feel when editing a website. We know speaking such words at MadPenguin ought to get us sectioned and quartered for sure. But before you break out the big guns, just bear with us for a minute here.

Yamefa.linux.free.fr reports - "Yamefa is a new Linux distribution based on Kubuntu... Yamefa contains the Mozilla Firefox Web browser with Sage extension (improved RSS feeds reader), the Mozilla Thunderbird mail reader with Lightning extension (calendar), the Gimp image editor, the OpenOffice.org office suite, and much more..." OSDir has some great shots of this new distribution in the Yamefa 608 Screenshot Tour.

Chapter 20 from Marcel Gagné's new book Moving to Ubuntu Linux reprinted with permission of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Government Open Source…GOS? Sure, it’s another TLA, but this time it spells a big win for the Open Source movement as more state activism in Massachusetts leads the way, embracing ODF — OpenDocument Format.

Enterprise security specialist Internet Security Systems (ISS) - which is soon to become an IBM subsidiary - claims to have become the first enterprise security company to provide server security protection for the latest Linux and Solaris operating systems, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS/ES and Solaris 10 SPARC.

Various sites including slashdot and kernel trap are reporting that there's a root exploit in more than one of the nvidia binary drivers. Bad news if you (like me) use them to achieve 3d acceleration.

Asa Dotzler has conducted an interview with Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky. Boris contributed to the Mozilla project for a number of years as a volunteer and now works part-time for the Mozilla Corporation. Questions were suggested by readers of Asa's weblog.

Ruby on Rails seems to be a lightning rod for controversy. At the heart of most of the controversy lies amazing productivity claims. This article explores the compromises and design decisions that went into making Rails so productive within its niche and how Ruby on Rails, like a nail gun, saves so much time.

Open source software is playing a growing role in telephony, and getting the attention of major equipment suppliers, but there is still an element of “buyer beware” in the use of open-source telephony technologies. Those were the key messages from a panel on the subject at the inaugural Voice 2.0 conference here Monday.

The built in webserver in Visual Studio 2005, formerly known as Casini, uses a dynamic or static port on the localhost machine (e.g. http://localhost:2049/default.aspx). It is dynamic by default, but you can make it static if you choose.