ActiveState Goes Open Source

While Eclipse percolates all over the Java world, ActiveState is betting that its dynamic language-focused IDE will fill an open source gap. The company's Komodo IDE 4.2 gave birth to a free…

Rice Technology Solutions to Distribute Ubuntu Based Linux Exclusively

Rice Technology Solutions (RTS), a southern Nevada based IT solutions provider and subcontracting firm today announced that it will exclusively distribute Ubuntu for all future linux deployments…

Python Conference 2008

PyCon 2008, the sixth annual Python community conference, will be held in Chicago from March 14 to 16, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel. Business leaders, developers, and enthusiasts…

Mandriva Linux selected as "Product of the Year 2007" at the Russian Softool event

Mandriva has been selected as 'Product of the Year 2007' in the Linux category at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. The 'Product of the Year 2007' competition was held by the department of…

Linux Kernel Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerabilities are…

New Open Source Grid and Cluster Community Launches

An online community for open source grid and cluster users, administrators and developers debuted today on the Internet at Grid.org.

Grid.org provides the single aggregation point for…

Old age open source initiative

The University of Miami in the US has got together with the University of Dundee in Scotland to work with IBM on a project to develop open source software designed specifically to address the…

Fresh, cool and clean … sounds like Linux

The 8,000 employees of Watts Water Technologies make innovative products to control the efficiency, safety and quality of water within residential, commercial and institutional applications. To…

Open Source Math

"The American Mathematical society has an opinion piece about open source software vs propietary software used in mathematics. From the article : "Increasingly, proprietary software and the…

Linuxlookup Weekly Wrap-up for Nov 18 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- VMware Server 2.0 Beta

- Open-Source 3D Game Engine for Apple…