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Novell wants to be number one for Linux
Novell plans to overtake Red Hat as the world's biggest distributor of Linux.
Melbourne open source provider targets SMEs
Melbourne-based open source solutions provider Cybersource has taken aim at the small and medium enterprise market with an offering that will provide all the server needs of such businesses for under $2000.
PHP 4.3.5 Released
PHP Development Team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.3.5. This is primarily a bug fix release, without any new features or additions.PHP 4.3.5 is by far the most stable release of PHP to date and it is recommended that all users upgrade to this release whenever possible.
Linux Kernel 2.6: the Future of Embedded Computing, Part I
With the release of the 2.6 kernel, Linux's position in the embedded world has been cemented.
Lotus Founder: Open Source is Route Worth Taking
Will open source become the predominant development model for software? "It's just a matter of time," Lotus founder Mitch Kapor told an audience of software developers this morning.
Greenpeace UK makes 'sensible' switch to Linux
Greenpeace UK has updated its IT systems and chosen to use Linux in three of its four systems because it was the 'sensible' choice
Open Source vs . Open Standards
William Shakespeare convincingly argued that when it comes to roses and matters of the heart, nomenclature is superfluous - because that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. However, the Bard would have to concur that, for best results, the technology industry should demand rather more clarity in its definitions.
Love, peace and Linux
“Love, Peace and Linux,” an IBM banner proclaims at New York’s Times Square. Across the seven seas and 13 rivers, in the land of the Mahatma, Linux is engulfing India’s computing environment thus creating lot of discomfort to companies like Microsoft.
Hewlett-packard under pressure to offer more Linux
Hewlett-Packard Co says it is yielding to large clients' demands and expanding Linux distribution -- a decision that could force Microsoft to reconsider some of its corporate pricing for Windows. HP announced a wider partnership on Wednesday with Novell Inc and plans to package its SuSE version of Linux with computers bound for corporate clients.
Linux on the desktop: the final frontier
The acquisition of Hamburg, Germany-based SuSe by Novell in 2003 paved the way for Linux developers, and the larger open source community of which they're a part, to move into the world of mainstream computing.
SCO Linux licensee has second thoughts on deal
Less than one month after becoming the first publicly announced purchaser of The SCO Group Inc.'s controversial intellectual property license for Linux, Houston-based Internet service provider Everyones Internet Ltd. is reconsidering the benefits of doing business with the Linux community's enemy number one...So how does Marsh feel about the deal nearly a month later? "Would I do it again? No. I'll go on the record as saying that," Marsh said. "I certainly know a lot more today than I knew a month ago, in a lot of respects."
F/OSS and KDE in Africa
54 people from 15 African countries and 16 facilitators/helpers from outside Africa gathered in Okahandja, a small Namibian town, for African Source from 15th of March to 19th of March 2004. African Source was the first all African conference of Free Software/Open Source Software (F/OSS) developers. Vladimir Petkov (GNOME) and Uwe Thiem (KDE) presented the current state of the open source desktop, its strengths and shortcomings.
Thinking like Steve Ballmer about EU decision
Besides, it looks like they might have left us a killer loophole. We can get "reasonable remuneration" for any intellectual property we're forced to license. So maybe we can prevent the Linux people _ and all those other "software should be free" communists who give away what they create _ from using or even seeing the programming interfaces that let them interoperate with our software. Your move, Torvalds.
Nvu 0.2 Released
The second major milestone release of Nvu, the Web publishing application based on Mozilla Composer, is now available for Linux and Windows. The main new feature in Nvu 0.2 is support for the creation, modification and utilisation of templates, preset pages that can include both editable and static elements. Version 0.2 also allows more CSS properties to be applied to pages and lets users to extract inline styles and make them into classes.
Linux: Staircase Process Scheduler
Australian doctor and Linux kernel interactivity specialist Con Kolivas [interview] announced the release of a new experimental process scheduler [journal]. Con describes his "staircase scheduler" as, "a descending multilevel single runqueue per cpu with deadline elevation of priorities." It was designed with interactivity in mind, makes renicing processes affect CPU distribution, scales well, and offers low scheduling latency for normal policy tasks, all with low overhead.
Bynari, Inc. Joins IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative to Help SMB Customers
Bynari, a Linux-based email server development company, has joined IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative, a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support to help meet the specific needs of small and medium business (SMB) customers.
Review of dyne:bolic 1.2: The Multimedia Linux
On Saturday March 20, I spent my lazy Saturday morning browsing the web for Linux news. I surfed over to DistroWatch.com & read the latest happenings in regards to Linux distributions. I read a news blurb on latest release of dyne:bolic 1.2. dyne:bolic is self described as a free multimedia studio in a GNU/Linux live CD. I was intrigued by the prospect of playing with a multimedia studio on live CD that won't interfere with my PC's current setup. I downloaded the ISO via Azureus Java bittorrent client. I burned it to CDR using K3B and booted my DAW off the dyne:bolic CD.
Promoting the adoption and use of FOSS in developing countries
Despite the many and severe problems highlighted in my previous article, all is not lost in the drive to increase the adoption and use of FOSS in developing countries. Many measures can be taken to help increase the use of FOSS in developing countries.
Scalix Brings Group Calendaring to Linux
Companies looking to migrate from Exchange to a Linux-based messaging system or that want broader groupware functionality will find a good solution in Scalix's Email and Calendaring Platform. From the user's perspective, the Outlook experience is very good, although the Web client could use some improvement. Email and Calendaring Platform is priced at $60 per user, $600 for a server with 500 mailboxes and $3,500 for the Enterprise Edition. More information is available at www.scalix.com.
Microsoft penalty won't help open source
Far from penalising Microsoft, Wednesday's decision by the European Commission assures a bright future for the company as a patent licensing operation. That's according to Jeremy Allison of the team behind Samba, an open source implementation of the SMB (Server Message Block) file sharing protocol, who notes that only two open source interests were called to testify before the EU investigation.
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