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Ever pondered how companies make money from free and open source development projects? Could you open source your code and still make a profit?

Faced with extending its core business strategy beyond its walled garden and rapidly falling subscriber numbers, AOL is enlisting the open source community to take over a number of projects.

The company says the new foundation will take over control of the open-source Fedora Project, but some developers are skeptical.

Linuxlookup.com is reporting on Nero, leaders in digital media technologies, announced that Samsung will be the first to bundle NeroLINUX with a DVD/CD burner, its TS-H552U WriteMaster. The bundle will be available as a retail kit June 2005 and will be available for a period of one month.

One of the most complicated pieces of software in the world is a 3-D engine, right? Not according to Nikolaus Gebhardt. He's almost single-handedly created his own open source-capable 3-D engine, Irrlicht. Howard Wen talks with him about the design, implementation, and goals of the project.

Volunteers in the Western Cape will this weekend install the 100th Linux-based school laboratory since the Shuttleworth Foundation-backed tuXlab programme started. The programme has also finalised plans to roll out another 100 laboratories in the coming year and install ten new laboratories on the Youth Day public holiday next week.

This introductory article provides an overview of the KDE interface and tips on basic configuration with those still hesitant to try Linux. I've noticed that more and more new users of KDE are non-techies who need a quick introduction to this extensive and powerful desktop.

HP is talking with its partners about bringing Linux to its NonStop, the former Tandem computer, line.

A small example of using tcl/tk and wish to make a small X11 GUI to launch applications.

NEW ORLEANS -- The third and final day of the inaugural Red Hat Summit opened with a bombshell in the keynote address delivered by Red Hat Deputy General Counsel Mark Webbink: Red Hat is freeing the Fedora project to allow it to become a fully independent entity. Red Hat will continue to support Fedora financially, but the project will be governed by an independent board of directors.

IBM's Wladawsky-Berger tells the Red Hat Summit crowd that convergence and advances in technology are driving innovation.

Microsoft has invited Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, to start a constructive dialogue. Tiemann says he'll take the offer at face value but calls it an"attempt to quell an internal civil war" at Microsoft.

According to a survey released June 1 by Microsoft Certified Partner Port80 Software, 53.8% of all Fortune 1000 company Web sites are powered by Windows and Microsoft's IIS servers, while only 21.2% of these giant companies use Apache and other open source software to run their corporate Web presences. This means these companies offer a huge potential market for FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) vendors and service providers.

Cisco Systems has signed a multi-year deal to use Palamida's IP AMPlifier product for automatically detecting, managing and reporting on software intellectual property (IP) assets.

The deal gives Health and Human Services employees unlimited access to a range of Novell products, but there's no plan to unseat Microsoft software

Red Hat has announced a strong commitment to implement patent reforms to remove barriers to innovation, according to a press release issued from New Orleans.

The first product released under Novell's Validated Configuration Programme could persuade more companies to use open source software across their systems

The company creates the Fedora Foundation to encourage further outside development of its free Fedora software.

As the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is readying a group to tackle the issues of licence proliferation, earlier proposals to solve the problem have fallen into disgrace, vnunet.com has learnt.

Independent journalist Frederick Noronha blogged his way through the Asia Source open source developer workshop in India earlier this year. Now he has collected all his writings over the entire workshop and released them as a small book which offers a fascinating insight into the state of open source software, not only in Asia, but throughout the world.