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An open source software license compliance start-up is to participate in a US Navy project on expanded use of open source software.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 has been released. This latest update fixes three security vulnerabilities...

Red Hat, Inc.on Thursday said that, it has launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 in five Indian languages viz. Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Bengali.

Bear with us as we write one more story on the whole ‘Is Windows more or less expensive to run than Linux?’ debate.

These improvements include regular rotation of exam questions, objectives review, and merging of the 101 exam forms that contain RPM and DPKG package management questions.

Rumors about the capabilities of free and open source spreadsheets are common among office software users, but not all of the rumors are backed by hands-on experience with the products. To get a better sense of the current state of FOSS spreadsheets, I installed the latest versions available for Debian: build 1.9.83 of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta (for OpenOffice.org Calc), KSpread 1.3.5, and Abiword 1.4.3 (for Gnumeric). Some of what I found contradicts the common wisdom.

The European Union program for Interoperable Delivery of eGovernment Services to Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (IDABC) promotes the correct use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for cross-border services in Europe. Several IDABC activities have a sensible, although indirect, impact on the wider adoption of free and open source software (FOSS) in the European Union; in fact, promotion of open source software and applications has been a long-term IDABC goal since 1999.

Novell acquires Immunix, a leading Linux security program, to add server protection to its Linux server line.

The acquisition means that IBM will acquire some of the top developers on the Apache Geronimo application server, putting pressure on rivals JBoss and Novell.

Cost, security and dissatisfaction with Microsoft will drive almost two-thirds of local authorities to increase their use of open source software over the next three years, according to new research.

Sun Microsystems has bought SCO - or at least the company that used to be SCO - for $25m. Sun today announced its buy of Tarantella in a cash deal. Tarantella was once known as the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) before that company sold its operating system assets to Caldera in 2001, kicking off a world of hurt for Linux fans everywhere.

For the first time in history, there are more Linux software choices than Windows choices -- in the 64-bit arena -- but it is likely that the situation will not remain that way for long. Let the debate begin anew, in other words.

The ASF's Harmony project, an open-source J2SE platform, is inspiring more interest than confidence among developers.

Northern Territory's department of corporate and information systems (DCIS) has issued a white paper requesting proposals for its second generation whole of government desktop outsourcing contract which includes provisions for an open source solution.

If you're new to open-source CMSes, here are some guidelines to help you find the best one for your project.

YES Linux Release Team would like to announce the immediate availability of YES Linux 2.2 Build 3. This is the third build of YES Linux 2.2. This release features more updates to features than to new features such as php, and apache.

Welcome to this year's 19th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Shortly before the release a discussion on the version number for sarge arose. In light of the upcoming release of sarge, the debian-release list has seen a flood of requests to update packages in sarge which the release team are dealing with.

At the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and affiliated hospitals, intranet and Web site users felt like they were "visiting a foreign land" each time they landed on a different department, says UNC Healthcare IT staff director Jim Walsh. Each department had it own look and feel, which made a hodge-podge for people going from site to site to perform searches and look up information. Today, however, after a revamp that included migration to the Plone open source content management system, site visitors have sense of a unified organization, and UNC staff feel at home with the new technology.

In the seemingly never-ending quest to balance openness with profits, one of India's more influential professors is devising yet another open-source licensing program.

The British public administration wants to use free software more and more, which is an increasing, threat for Microsoft with the idea to pressure the company of Bill Gates so that he lowers the prices of his programs.