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Gentoo Linux has a reputation among Linux enthusiast as being one of the most hardcore distributions available today, and for good reason. While it is fast, stable, and mature, it doesn't have a reputation of being a very accessible distro... meaning not anyone can sit down and install Gentoo and have any expectation of simple success. Vida is Spanish for “life” so will it live up to its name? Will it breath new life into the Linux desktop? We are about to find out...

The Free Software Foundation Europe says the company is blocking Linux, Samba and other major open-source projects from taking part in a protocol licensing scheme mandated by the European Commission's antitrust ruling.

Welcome to this year's 4th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Marc Haber announced experimental packages of Exim4 linked against db4.2 for later inclusion in to sarge/sid. OSNews has a guideline on using the new debian-installer to install Debian by Luis Lima.

Business users get customisation help in the next version of the open source firm's customer relationship management software.

Yumex significantly simplifies software management on Fedora Core 3 machines.

Largest Single Grant in Patent History Spurs Software Innovation

The second episode of The Linux Box Show is now available. In this episode Sean discusses software patents, Xfce 4.2, fonts, Torvalds criticizing security approaches, and OOo templates. Stream/Download Audio

IBM granting access to 500 software patents to the open-source community was a good start. Now Big Blue must assemble a consortium of other IP powerhouses with an interest in defending the open-source development model.

Timothy Miller is a long time developer of graphics chips and drivers. He has observed that there is a growing trend by graphics hardware vendors to provide less and less information to free and open source operating system developers. Without this information, it is becoming more and more difficult to purchase new graphics hardware that is stable and reliable on Linux and other free and open source operating systems. In response, Timothy worked with his employer, Tech Source, to form the Open Graphics Project.

Wormux is a libre software clone of the game named Worms. The goal of the game consists in winning a fight against an opponent team of "worms" (or else) by leading his own team.

Blake Ross has written a weblog post about the design philosophy behind Mozilla Firefox. The short version: Firefox, like most good software, should be means to an end that's largely invisible to its users.

The company will use its new Common Development and Distribution License for its Open Solaris project. Sun also will release the code to its DTrace technology, which is found in the upcoming Solaris 10 operating system and allows a look into its inner workings.

Ben Goodger, Lead Engineer for the popular browser Firefox has announced that he is no longer paid by Mozilla, and has joined Google.

Mozilla Foundation President Mitchell Baker will return to working on the Mozilla project full time. She will continue to be an employee of OSAF and will retain her seat on OSAF's board.

More than a year after IBM's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop by the end of 2005, IBM has significantly toned down its rhetoric on the subject of open-source clients.

The United Federation of Teachers embraces open-source technology for its enterprise systems.

On Tuesday, Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce that it will be using its newly minted Common Development and Distribution License open-source license for its long-promised Open Solaris project. However, creating a developer community around such plans to open-source Solaris will not be easy—for many reasons—according to analysts and industry figures.

Since its release last November, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been downloaded over 20 million times. Asa Dotzler has posted a graph of culmulative downloads and a chart of daily download totals.

Open source has won another convert in the local government sector, with soft migrations to Linux imminent across Vienna's municipal authority.

Broadband Subscribers to Benefit From Tabbed Browsing, Increased Privacy and Security Features, Built in Pop-Up Blocking and More