Question Novell at Cape FOSS event
The Cape Information Technology Initiative (CITI) will be hosting a lineup of forums, presentations and Q&A sessions next week. Offering a full morning of discussions, presentations and Q&…
Linux hot, standards not with China, Taiwan
Earlier this year, members of Chinese and Taiwanese IT associations announced broad plans to work together to jointly develop and promote Linux as well as home-grown standards for certain IT…
Linux on Zune soon?
According to reports from gadget-watchers, and a few who have physically ripped open the device, the Zune runs the Freescale i.MX31 multimedia processor - used widely in consumer electronics, such…
Transcript of Richard Stallman's speech from GPLv3
"The 5th international GPLv3 conference was held in Tokyo last week. I've made and published a transcript of Stallman's talk where he described the latest on what GPLv3 will do about the MS/Novell…
French MPs dump Windows for Linux
After the gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture, it's the French MPs' turn to switch to open source. From June 2007, PCs in French députés' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system…
UK pays lip service to open source in schools
The UK's Open Source Consortium has joined criticism of UK government education policy towards open source software, maintaining that the British Education Communications and Technology Agency '…
Primed for desktop Linux
The consultants that rolled out Australia's biggest known Linux desktop project are backing themselves for more. A while back I wrote about Kennards Hire's deployment of about 400 desktops running…
Wine 0.9.26 Released
Wine 0.9.26 has been released. New in this release is better support for Unix locale settings, improved X11 keyboard support, various MSI fixes, winecfg improvements and bug fixes.
Weekly Wrap-up
Since Linuxlookup news isn't updated over the weekends, here is our weekly wrap-up to hold you over till Monday.
Some top stories this week were:
- Howto install Fedora Linux on a…
Kernel Comparison for Linux 2.6.18 vs Windows 2003 R2
This aims to be the most comprehensive kernel comparison of the latest most popular Unix style kernel verses the latest most popular current kernel. A kind of kernel comparison FAQ.
Kernel…