PowerSquid Surge3000 Review
When buying a new computer, any good sales associate will likely suggest the additional purchase of a surge protector for your new system. Often buyers decline and pass this off as a commission…
Eudora goes Open Source
QUALCOMM is announcing that its Eudora email program will become an open source product effective the first half of calendar year 2007. As an open source product, it will be free to all customers…
Microsoft denies BayStar connection
Microsoft has denied allegations that it offered to guarantee an investment made in The SCO Group, a software company embroiled in a long-standing intellectual property dispute with IBM.
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Highly Anticipated ''Portland'' Ready for Primetime
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), the global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux and open source software, and freedesktop.org, the open source project focused on…
Torvalds takes bite of Mac mini
Linus Torvalds has picked up one of Apple's new Intel-based Mac minis to play with, but the Linux creator still prefers Apple's old PowerPC architecture for his primary desktop machine.
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KDE 3.5.5 Released
The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.5, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other…
Mandriva 2007: Why is this distribution still around?
Naming distribution versions after a calendar year sounds familiar to me. I'm thinking of Windows 95, of course. And my experience with French distribution Mandriva 2007 brought me back to those…
Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder
Hans Reiser, author of ReiserFS, was taken into custody at 11 a.m., hours after Oakland police and FBI technicians searched his home in the Oakland hills. His estranged wife, Nina Reiser, 31, has…
Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show
Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 162:
We talk to author and home automation expert Neil Cherry
More fun with Asterisk
Modifying your router's firmware with OpenWRT
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Suspending Spamhaus
The anti-spam group Spamhaus Project has said 50 billion junk mails per day will be unleashed on computer users worldwide, should the group lose its domain name, spamhaus.org, reports BusinessWeek…