MySQL moves are troubling

Open source company MySQL AB, which puts out the well-known database of the same name, has made a couple of moves this year, both of which have passed without much comment.

The two moves -…

Weekly Wrap-up Dec 16 2006

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Debian Etch frozen

- openSUSE 10.2 Released

- Customers…

Holiday Hardware Giveaway 2006

Just a reminder that our 6th annual Holiday Hardware Giveaway launched earlier this week. This year we're giving away an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual-Core Processor, Crucial 2GB Memory Kit, BFG…

Researcher Uncovers McAfee Linux VirusScan Flaw

A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in McAfee's VirusScan Command Line Scanner antivirus software that could enable remote attackers to execute malicious code.

The flaw…

The cloudy future of mobile Linux

Linux has been mentioned as a potentially leading platform for mobile devices for as long as there have been mobile devices. However, mobile Linux is still largely missing in action. The new crop…

Linux kernel gains serviceability features

The Linux kernel has been updated with several serviceability improvements, chiefly around the kdump and SystemTap features.

The kdump enhancements should improve the ability to reliably…

Venture Dollars Flow to Open Source

Open-source software, once seen as the province of propeller heads and anti-capitalist visionaries, is winning the respect of the most clear-eyed capitalists of all: the venture capital community…

Freeing a MMORPG - Free Ryzom

Free Software Foundation announces that it will officially support the Free Ryzom campaign with a pledge of $60,000.

The Free Ryzom campaign was established to purchase the online game and…

KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop?

Since beginning as a one-person project over ten years ago, the fourth generation of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) is poised to be the most business-friendly open source desktop to date with a…

Kerala On Linux Express Highway

God's own country Kerala is now closer to Linux. It has become India's first and the only state to have closed its doors to Windows and let Linux in. The drive was kindled by Richard Stallman's…