Is Microsoft OOXML the best deal open source can get?
The Microsoft Office formats are in the news again. Massachusetts has backed-down and accepted the Microsoft Office OOXML format as a standard while the companies in Microsoft’s open source orbit…
Open source investment up 33% in Q2
The level of funding in free and open source-related vendors rose over 33% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, following a decline in the first quarter.
According…
aKademy 2007: The Keynotes
"aKademy 2007 has kicked off. The first weekend hosted our user conference, which brought many talks about various topics, ranging from very technical to more practically oriented, which were…
Slackware 12.0 Released
This first Slackware edition of the year combines Slackware's legendary simplicity (and close tracking of original sources), stability, and security with some of the latest advances in Linux…
Fedora Core 5 Retirement
As of Monday, July 2nd 2007, Fedora Core 5 has gone into retirement. No further updates will be issued for FC5 or FE5 as we refocus our developer attention to development of F8 and maintenance of…
Are top Linux developers losing the will to code?
Core Linux developers are finding themselves managing and checking, rather than coding, as the number of kernel contributors grows and the contributor network becomes more complex.
Are top…
Wine 0.9.40 Released
Wine 0.9.40 has been released. New to this release are many MSHTML improvements, a few more sound fixes, Direct3D fixes, lots of bug fixes and another step closer towards 1.0
Wine 0.9.40…
McGraw-Hill Education Selects MySQL
MySQL AB announced that McGraw Hill Education, a leading global provider of educational materials, information and solutions, has chosen the MySQL database to power the network version of its…
FSF releases the GNU General Public License, version 3
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most popular free software license.
“Since we founded the free software…
Motorola Releases Open Source Middleware
Motorola announced that it intends to form an industry-wide consortium that will assume stewardship for the OpenSAF project the company announced in February. The company also announced the first…