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Mobility Email is a portable open-source distribution of Mozilla's Thunderbird. It can be used on a desktop computer as a normal e-mail application, or it can run directly from a USB key (like the iPod Shuffle) without needing to be installed on a computer.

Huntsville, AL (OPENPRESS) October 25, 2005 -- Digium® Inc., the creator of Asterisk® and pioneer of open source telephony, today launched the Digium Wildcard TDM2400P, the most dense and scalable card available for building an Asterisk-based telephony system for SOHO and SME environments. The 32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.2-compliant card with Digium’s patent pending VoiceBus™ architecture, supports quad-FXS station and quad-FXO office interfaces for connecting analog telephones and lines through a PC, without taking up numerous PCI slots.

“The Digium 24-port card offers the highest analog density available in a PCI card and can scale up to 48-ports with two cards and two slots,” said Mark Spencer, president of Digium. “With its flexible scalability features, our 24-port card is the best hardware card available for small and medium businesses looking to build an inexpensive, sophisticated VoIP telephony solution without compromising the use of multiple PCs.”

David Boswell writes: "The Mozdev Community Organization is looking for someone to help with ongoing community development tasks at mozdev.org.

Motorola and PalmSource are among the companies that lined up last week behind an initiative that aims to promote the use of Linux on cell phones.

Tectonic wants you to tell us what's hot and what's not in the world of open source. Its first open source readers' awards will recognise the best of OSS in the South African marketplace, and the world.

At 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -0700) on Sunday, the Mozilla development tree was locked down in preparation for the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1.

Kernel terminology gets tossed about quite a bit. One of the more common topics regarding operating system kernels is the overall design. In particular how the kernel is structured.

It's a value at the heart of successful open source projects. It is also at the heart of the Internet.

It's not majority rules. It's everyone agrees, or at least accepts the agreement of the vast majority.

Consensus has a bad habit of breaking down when money gets into the mix. Contracts are one replacement principle. Democracy is another. Power is a third.

But none of these alternate values deliver what consensus delivers. You realize this when consensus is lost.

Partnership empowers service providers with deep packet inspection, network monitoring and enforcement tools across business and consumer networks

With staff cuts almost a certainty and pressure coming from some investors for massive changes, analysts look ahead to Novell's future.

New Product Enables Anyone to Easily Run, Share or Evaluate Software in a Virtual Machine on a Windows or Linux PC

Oracle's recent acquisition of the open source Innobase database technology could mean that the firm is preparing to release an open source database.

TSX Venture - EPT

Is Ubuntu a Debian fork? Or spoon? What sort of silverware are you, man?

Yes, Ubuntu is a fork. No, it isn't. Yes it is! Oh, whatever.

In short, we are a project that tries hard to collaborate with many other projects -- such as upstream X.org, and Gnome, and of course Debian. In many cases, the code we ship is modified or different to the code shipped by those other projects. When that happens, we work hard to ensure that our changes are published as widely as possible, in a format that is easy for other project maintainers to understand and incorporate into their own working tree.

The upgrade will include the Newboot start-up process and Sun software that alerts users to further updates.

Cisco this week is expected to announce new technology and a business unit focused on integrating two-way radio, cellular, VoIP and other communications methods into an IP backbone.

Martin Roesch, the creator of Snort - the de facto standard for intrusion detection/prevention presents the entire story of Snort that covers seven years of development that made this tool one of the most important security software titles ever developed.

Red Hat India has named Ravindra Ranade as the Head of its Global Professional Services, effective immediately. In his new role Ravindra will focus on customizing the range of Red Hat solutions and support offerings to the Indian customers.

The company also announced that it has segmented the engineering and professional services in order to enhance the professional services engagement for its clients and to expand the engineering work of its teams.

Sun to update Solaris 10 by year's end. Also: IBM expands free access to patents for education, health care.

In Part 1 I offered some general advice and encouragement for women involved in FOSS, and women who want to be involved in FOSS. Part 2 is a partial resource guide, a list of women-oriented tech communities...These are great places to connect with other women in computing, to socialize, to get job and professional tips, and to get help and encouragement for everything from workplace and personal issues to technical help. For most of these groups the goal is not to provide a safe shelter to hide in and never come out, but to help women develop the skills and support to cope with everyday challenges, and achieve their goals.