Fedora Core 6 End of Life

A reminder to users: Fedora Core 6 will reach its end of life for updates on Friday, December 7, 2007.

Fedora 7 will remain supported until one month past the release of Fedora 9 (as things…

YaST Tools for Creating Installation Media and Appliances

The casual reader of news.opensuse.org knows that openSUSE 10.3 contains a YaST tool for creating images using KIWI. However, it is not that known fact that openSUSE 10.3 contains much more tools…

Open Web Gains New Open Source Development Tools

ActiveState Software released Open Komodo, an open source platform for building development environments based on the award-winning Komodo® IDE, a multi-platform, multi-language IDE for dynamic…

SCO Responds to SUSE Re Staying the Swiss Arbitration - Updated

SCO has responded [PDF] to the SUSE opposition [PDF] to SCO's motion [PDF] to "enforce" the automatic stay. This is the most significant document in today's bankruptcy collection. You can read…

Mandriva: An open letter to Steve Ballmer

"So we closed the deal, we got the order, we qualified the software, we got the machine shipped. In other word, we did our job. I understand the machine are being delivered right now.

And…

Open-Source HR Management System 2.2.2 Released

OrangeHRM, a leading provider of open-source HR Management solution for small and medium sized enterprises worldwide, has announced the launch of version 2.2.2 of their human resource information…

Response to Microsoft’s Misleading IDC Numbers

"Fundamentally this particular study will over-count Windows share and undercount Linux. Al Gillen at IDC, who we have a lot of respect for, says this himself in your article. Why is Linux so…

GNOME 2.21.1 Released

The first release of the GNOME 2.21.x series. This opens the development cycle for what will become the stable GNOME 2.22.x release.

Keep in mind this is a development release. For more…

Everex $200 Linux gPC Hits Wal-Mart, Bowls Rednecks Over

Can the masses be wooed by Linux? Second-tier PC maker Everex teamed up with a startup called gOS to build the gPC TC2502, a $199 VIA-powered Ubuntu 7.10 Linux system with an Enlightenment E17…

SCO's 341 Creditors Meeting - McBride, Acheson Answer the US Trustees' Questions

This is almost as good as being there, the audio ( MP3 and Ogg) from the October 18 creditors' meeting with SCO's Darl McBride as witness of record, and Jean Acheson by his side providing details…