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Open source database vendor MySQL AB is looking to retain its independence, according to its CEO, despite a recent turbulent period that showed the precariousness of its single-product strategy.

I've been a happy MythTV user for a long time -- you can check out my review of version 0.19 -- but lately I've been feeling that something is missing. MythTV is great for watching and recording TV, but I watch TV less than four hours per week. On the other hand, I love music, and MythTV offers no easy way to listen to music from various sources, such as audio CDs and Web-based and FM radio stations. After fiddling with custom solutions based on MPD and MPlayer, I decided to look for an alternative -- which led me to Freevo.

Japanese mobile firm Willcom is developing a Linux-based modular smartphone for sale in Japan starting in August.

This article shares the concepts behind the Zend Framework, including the Model-View-Controller pattern and the PHP coding standards.

Panasas Storage Boosts Cluster Performance by 10X and Eliminates Need for Costly NFS Servers

POPFile is a program that has often been labeled as little more than a spam filtering software. In reality, POPFile is much more than this. Allow me to explain why...

The International Engineering Task Force is working on a proposed standard for the age-old but never standardized syslog protocol, but their efforts may be in jeopardy thanks to a patent application by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., of Shenzhen, China.

There are plenty of reference applications available for Linux, but the ultimate Linux lexicon has to be WordNet, a powerful desktop dictionary.

If you read way down to the bottom of a Wall Street Journal interview with Bill Gates that ran yesterday, you'll discover that the Microsoft executive admitted to watching pirated movies on the Internet. The confession came as he was talking about content he had viewed on YouTube.

Many in the Linux world believe that Linux desktops can easily replace Microsoft Windows for certain uses. They also admit that the Linux desktop may not be a solution for all Windows users, but they firmly believe that they are making progress toward that goal.

Microsoft was out in force at an open source conference in London this week, but many delegates were unwilling to talk about its motives

[From the article: "Fishenden told ZDNet UK that the conference was a good opportunity to address the “misconception”, as he put it, that Microsoft was anti-open source."
That's right, folks! Microsoft is not anti-Open Source. It's just that Microsoft makes less money because of Open Source; therefore, Open Source is anti-Microsoft. - dcparris]

A commercial real-time Linux variant offering separate real-time and non-real-time execution domains has added support for a family of network processors that integrate separate application and control plane processing units. FSMLabs's RTLinuxPro development kit now supports Freescale's PowerQUICC III family of SoCs (system-on-chip processors).

In my last blog post, I started writing about OpenWRT, a free software firmware replacement for many off-the-shelf home broadband routers. I received an email last week from a reader who had some of the very same questions I had about the whole process of installing a new firmware. I’ll address some of his points here.

Last week you learned how to use FreeWorldDialup to connect to other VoIP users. Today you'll set up distributed Asterisk peering with the DUNDi (Distributed Universal Number Discovery) protocol. DUNDi is a peer-to-peer system for finding Internet gateways to telephony services.

Last October 31, the Chairman of a Massachusetts Senate Committee held a public hearing (more akin to a kangaroo court) at which then State CIO Peter Quinn and his general counsel were required to testify, following which a parade of exclusively hostile witnesses was invited to testify against the ITD's ODF policy. Now, the investigative report of the same committee has been issued.

Last week, more than 60 Ubuntu developers met in Paris to plan Ubuntu's next release, codenamed Edgy Eft. Officially, the meeting was billed as a developer summit and not a conference. Each day, groups of two to 10 attendees brainstormed, drafted, and advanced specifications in more than 60 sessions in up to 10 parallel tracks. These specifications, which will stabilize in the next week, will then be prioritized and approved by Canonical staff and will serve as the feature goals for the next release.

Microsoft Corp has officially unveiled CodePlex, its new collaborative development portal for community-based development for open- and shared-source projects, while signing a new partnership with open-source database vendor MySQL AB.

[I would look for a large, hollow, wooden horse in the area. -- grouch]

'Mini Koobox' Linux Desktop Comes Pre-Installed With Full Office Suite and Multimedia Software

Open source business intelligence architecture strengthened with new analysis product and enhanced server capabilities

The newest edition of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world, released today, lists Indiana University's supercomputer cluster, Big Red, as the fastest supercomputer among all US academic institutions and ranked 23rd overall in the world--and it runs on open-source software.