IBM Achieves Major "Linux on POWER" Milestone
IBM today announced the delivery of the 2,500th Linux application available for POWER -- extending the flexibility of one of the world’s most pervasive processor architectures. The application,…
Fedora Project Is Hiring
As of today, Red Hat has an open position within the Fedora Project. This is a unique position, which offers the candidate the opportunity to combine strong engineering skills with leadership and…
Open-source group wants educational patent reversed
A legal center is trying to overturn a patent it says threatens three open-source educational projects, a sign of the tension between patent holders and the collaborative programming community.…
When Linux Runs Out of Memory
Perhaps you rarely face it, but once you do, you surely know what's wrong: lack of free memory, or Out of Memory (OOM). The results are typical: you can no longer allocate more memory and the…
Major update of Win4Lin
New Release includes Support for new Linux Distributions such as Ubuntu Edgy Eft
Virtual Bridges, Inc, a provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, announced…
What Linux Needs to Win on Desktop
For the last 15 years, Linux has grown from a small hobby of a university student to a powerful system which is rapidly gaining popularity every year. But unfortunately in majority of cases Linux…
GPL v3 takes shape in Sydney
The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) General Public Licence (GPL) is undergoing its biggest overhaul in 15 years and local members of the free software community are participating in the…
Human Rights OSS Provides Uncensored Internet to Countries like China
Once a unfettered forum for global communications, the Internet is today under siege.
Upwards of forty countries now censor Internet traffic. Most of this censorship takes place in secret…
History’s Lesson: Microsoft May Use Novell to Kill OpenOffice, ODF
Corel has just announced that it would support OpenDocument (ODF) format, as well as Microsoft’s competing format. OpenOffice, on the other hand, based on Novell’s Web site, will remain committed…
Is There Perfection in The Linux Kernel?
In a perfect world, you could compile a brand-new Linux kernel without the need for much configuration and without error.
According to Linus Torvalds, the new 2.6.19 Linux kernel is such an…