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A growing number of the estimated 5.8 million small and midsize businesses in the United States are buying Linux solutions, mostly from solution providers, according to research from AMI-Partners. Linux, according to AMI, of New York, is benefiting from a growing acceptance of open-source products overall.

The next version of the now wildly popular Linux distribution, Edgy Eft, is due for its beta release today. As the name suggests, Edgy Eft will include bleeding-edge Linux technologies, with many of the packages expected in Edgy to be beta themselves.

Nigeria will spend about 30 million naira on the construction of a national Internet Exchange Point. The exchange point, which is expected to be commissioned by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo within days, will make it possible to keep local internet traffic within the country.

In its simplest form, WMQ is provides reliable messages exchange between two end points. When Informix applications use WMQ, you write custom code, manage multiple connections, and route data through your application. Now you can simplify MQing with Informix Dynamic Server V10 UC3. It has built-in support for interaction between Informix and WMQ using SQL callable functions with two-phase commit support.

Following Nicholas Petreley'sdiscussion of the GNU GPLv3 debate from one angle, I'd like to look at it from another - that of the cultures of the two groups involved - and what this implies for the future.

This article is a review of the latest version of FreeDOS and how it can be installed in GNU/Linux using an emulator QEmu. This informative article is replete with screenshots and makes an interesting read.

Foreword: M-Systems is migrating its newest flash chips to open-source drivers. In this technical whitepaper, M-Systems provides an overview of three generations of flash technology, outlines the reliability challenges presented by the latest flash technologies, describes software techniques aimed at maximizing flash reliability, and introduces the soon-to-be-released open-source Linux drivers.

ReviewLinux.Com takes a look at the latest Freespire Linux. The latest version is 1.0.13 and we found it simple to install and use. Take a look at our screenshots plus a short Flash Video of the desktop in action.

This tutorial shows you how to upgrade/downgrade your Linux Ethernet port speed using command line options. It also explain how to set the interface speed, duplex or auto negotiation on boot up for Fedora Core/ Cent OS/ Red Hat enterprise Linux and Debian/Ubentu Linux using a shell script.

This Web-accessible programming and hosting system provides an environment that lets end users create and deploy dynamic Web pages and Web services without needing to know languages like PHP and Java.

The No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) symposia have achieved a reputation for providing the geekiest content to its developer audiences. Primarily focused on Java and open source technologies, the symposia major on delivering sessions devoted to leading edge technologies presented by the leading practitioners. Audiences are deliberately kept small, and the usual presenter/audience barrier is actively discouraged. The aim is to encourage sharing of knowledge and experience as much as possible.

The open source optical character recognition (OCR) landscape got dramatically better recently when Google released the Tesseract OCR engine as open source software.

Bob Whitinger is taking over the site and ushering in an exciting new era for LXer.

Since its inaugural release in October, 2004, Ubuntu has earned a significant and very loyal following among desktop Linux users. More recently, Canonical announced plans to make Ubuntu a player in the enterprise Linux market, including a new server release and extended support packages tailored for business users.

It seems most PC users have heard of Linux and, at the very least, the idea of open source software has piqued their curiosity. Here, we explain open source in greater detail so, if you are interested in getting started with Linux, now is the time to give it a try.

In a roundtable this afternoon at the MIT Emerging Techologies Conference, panelists agreed that updates to browsers are constantly breaking Web applications, causing endless headaches. Both Internet Explorer and Safari came in for criticism. The exception was Firefox, an open source browser that adheres more closely to standards.

In the middle of the yearly KDE conference aKademy, the KOffice team has released the first release candidate of version 1.6. This release follows the earlier beta according to the schedule.

Shares of Red Hat plunged 23% in afternoon trading Wednesday after the open source software maker posted disappointing forward guidance.

Novell announced this week that it plans to offer support for Linux virtualization -- including instances of its rival's Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 -- with its Xen virtualization technology included in Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10.

A Google search for “open source” will give you 1,660,000,000 results, a number that increases every day. This says something about the escalating popularity of open source as a software idea in the digital era. This should also give you a reason to read Open Source and the Law by Priti Suri and Associates.