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York, UK – Mambo lead developer Martin Brampton has said that he is severing all ties with the Open Source project. His departure — which is eerily similar to the departure of an entire development team last year — comes in the wake of him finding himself unable to continue due to matters of conscience.

[That's the thing about FOSS projects - attempts to absolute control every little detail will fail. It's one of those hard lessons that you have to let go to gain. Kudos to Brampton! - dcparris]

A poll of internet users indicates the prevailing view is that the Mozilla Firefox browser will continue to take market share off Microsoft, despite the impending release of its vastly improved Internet Explorer 7 browser.

The initiative aims at providing Novell-certified Linux courses to aspiring professionals.

Last week we used ping and tcptraceroute to pinpoint connectivity problems, and nmap to spy on users. Oh yeah, and to map entire subnets with a single command. Today we'll look at ways, when your users crab about "the network is slow", to determine if it's network or server troubles

Businesses should not expect that the open source community will always provide it with the patches and fixes required to deliver business-grade application support, according to a panel of open source advocates speaking at CeBIT in Sydney.

The FreedomHEC conference is approaching rapidly. The "shadow" conference, which follows Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), is set to take place on May 26 and 27 in Seattle, Washington, at the Pogo Linux headquarters.

LinuxWorld San Francisco - Industry Flagship Event - Opens Registration; August event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the kernel and focus on key themes

PCLinuxOS, simply put, is one of the easiest to use, stable, consistent, and enjoyable distros out there.
I honestly feel that it has few equals at this point in time.
MiniME proves to be no exception, just smaller.

What would happen if anybody could produce radio or TV programming as easily as they consume it?
What would happen if the natural limits to broadcasting went away?

Those questions only had sci-fi answers when I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, not far from the swamps later re-labeled"meadowlands", after a sports complex by that name appeared alongside Paterson Plank Road. In those days, back in the'50s and early'60s, I was like any other geeky kid who had better luck with science than with girls: I sublimated unrequited desire for the latter into preoccupation with the former. Since computers were still captive to big business, big defense and big science, I focused my science obsessions on big radio.

n an effort to fight back against the stifling effect of scientific knowledge being kept under wraps, researchers are creating an open-source community that allows them to advance science by sharing data.

Novell's aiming straight at Microsoft's Small Business Server customers with its new, low-priced office suite: Novell Open Workgroup Suite. (Linux-Watch)

'Impossible Team Online Game' Free MMOG and Online Community for 2006 FIFA World Cup(TM)

[One of the companies involved has won GNU/Linux awards - dcparris]

Coach K. Wei, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) visionary and open standards advocate, has announced the open source release of AjaxWord, a full-featured word-processing application available in a completely Web-based AJAX environment. With AjaxWord, users can leverage an Internet (HTML) application using AJAX(DHTML/JavaScript) technology to obtain the look, feel and functionality of leading word-processing applications, such as Microsoft Word.

Learn how to use the capabilities of the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) to convert application log files into a structured format.

Novell says the Open Workgroup Suite it unveiled today offers customers an open, low-cost alternative to Voleware.

Novell is readying two major product launches meant to make its open-source software more palatable to corporate customers.

Digium Asterisk built on Session Initiation Protocol used in Switchvox IP PBXs

And you thought Clippy was annoying

An irritating interface could be just one of the factors that hurts uptake of Windows Vista in the enterprise, challenging Microsoft's ambitious rollout goals.

Welcome to this year's 19th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Uwe Hermann [1]investigated changelog files and recognised a number of interesting release names for packages. Several Debian developers gather in Oaxtepec, Mexico, where this year's [2]Debian Conference will take place and is preceded by a working camp that already started.

With the Gizmondo now dead and buried, there is a void for gamers who don't to play on the Sony PSP or the Nintendo DS waiting to be filled.