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Sun Microsystems has hired the principal author of the open-source Roller Weblogger software, a move that's part of an attempt to build closer ties with developers and customers.

Sun Microsystems will begin compensating its sales staff for deals that involve hardware from other manufacturers, as part the company's efforts to fend off competition from low-cost servers running Linux.

Longhorn's woes may open a door for Linux—a very tiny door—but Linux just isn't a good choice for desktops. Instead, desktop Linux proponents should wake up and switch to the Mac OS.

Brian 'INGY' Ingerson is a well known and prolific Perl programmer. Far from being yet another perl hacker he is the author of several CPAN modules including award winning Inline, YAML, and most notably of late his wiki application Kwiki. OSDir had the opportunity to interview INGY about his work on Kwiki, and his philosophy in programming in general.

Confidence in the business climate is resulting in bigger IT budgets for 2005, especially for hardware spending, which is driven by the spread of Linux and open source software.

Welcome to this year's 34th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. In an interview, id Software's Timothee Besset confirmed that he loves the Debian distribution. In a different review Leo Spalteholz described how he tried to escape Debian and switch to an "easier" distribution, but ended up with Debian again.

Within 24 hours of a federal election being called, Communications and IT minister Helen Coonan has swapped her contentious campaign to offshore government IT services for a warm and fuzzy embrace of home-grown open source software to woo the penguin vote.

This is a very exciting time. There has always been a cordial relationship between our two projects. And there are natural synergies between the two. For starters, Mozilla will begin shipping a Mozilla+OOo CD from their mozilla store.

Startup Orion Multisystems Inc. hopes to revive the workstation market with a design that shrinks a 12-node Linux cluster to a single large motherboard. The company is targeting vertical markets with a desktop that sells for less than $10,000 and a 96-node desk-side system priced under $100,000.

With the promises of Longhorn revealed as market-freezing trickery, Linux has its best chance ever to seize control of the desktop.

My folks recently bought and sent me two DVDs, but the only DVD player I have is in my Linux-based computer. Using the free software application MPlayer, I was able to watch my videos. I'll walk you through the easy steps required.

Most of the attention and current criticism of America's e-voting infrastructure and technology is focused on the lack of a verifiable paper audit trail, but an equally prominent issue is the closed nature of election system certification, companies, and software.

A few weeks ago a new story submission for a new website found its way into my unposted queue of stories, and I knew LinuxBeta.com was destined for greatness. Here is my interview with Chris Haney, the founder of LinuxBeta.com.

Non-profit organisations are always looking for ways to better serve the public. But, with ever-shrinking budgets, it can sometimes be hard for them to even stay alive, much less expand services. This article discusses how one agency, ROCMND Group Home in Miami, Oklahoma, met that challenge through the use of open technology.

A scheme being proposed to cut the deluge of spam has the support of some big players but it is doubtful whether it will be acceptable to those from the free and open source communities.