Creating business cards with OpenOffice.org Writer
Exchanging business cards is a rudimentary form of networking (the people, not the server kind). However, to get the most out of the exchange, you need a card that attracts attention and reflects…
Linux Will Be Worth $1 Billion In 1st 100 Days of 2009
What's Linux worth? The question has been a favorite of technology groups and cocktail party conversations ever since a character named Jeff V. Merkey offered $50,000 for a copy of Linux. The…
SUSE Arrives with a Special Opposition - Says Bankruptcy Ct. Has no Jurisdiction
SUSE has arrived, filing a "special opposition" [PDF] to SCO's motion to stay the arbitration in Europe. That isn't what SCO called the motion technically, but that is what SCO wants. SUSE says…
Fedora Project Leader Takes Dig at Shuttleworth, Questions Ubuntu Numbers
There are no good independent measurements of market share between the various distributions of desktop Linux, and that is leading to a continued back-and-forth between rivals.
In the…
phpMyAdmin 2.11.1.2 Released
phpMyAdmin, the popular web based MySQL management software has just released version 2.11.1.2
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-6
Ballmer: Microsoft Will Buy Open-Source Companies
Microsoft's detente with the open-source world is growing stronger by the minute. Steve Ballmer said today that he wouldn't consider an open-source-based business model a deterrent to buying a…
GNOME 2.20.1 Stable Released
This is the first update to GNOME 2.20.0. The update fixes all known and unknown crashers, even for those modules which haven't released a new version (AKA gnome-terminal). The next development…
Nokia’s Third-Gen Linux Tablet Sports GPS, Slider Keyboard
Nokia has just introduced the N810 Internet Tablet, its third stab at a Linux-run Wi-Fi tablet and the second since bringing these devices under the umbrella of its Nseries of consumer-orientated…
What the iPhone SDK means for open source
In a purely technical sense, news that Apple will offer an iPhone software development kit and allow third-party applications is not an open source story.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source…
Adobe: friend or enemy of open source, open standards?
I’m sitting in a session at Adobe Max Europe listening to Senior Product Manager Laurel Reitman talking about what a great open platform Adobe is creating.
She refers to the open sourcing…