HP sells 100,000th Linux server in UK

Hewlett Packard has sold its 100,000th Linux-based server in the UK. The company has also shipped over 1,500,000 Linux servers worldwide.

The company pointed to figures from IDC that showed…

PS3 based super-computing cluster on Linux

As many people know Yellow Dog Linux, from Terra Soft, now runs on the Cell engine in Sony's PS3. That's very cool, but the thing many people may not realize is that Terra Soft isn't so much in…

Novell drops Hula project

"The quick synopsis is, Novell no longer has anyone working full-time on Hula. As a team we have spent some time looking at where the Hula project is and the opportunities in the market and in…

OSDL Mobile Linux Initiative Gains Another Heavy Hitter

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), the global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux® and open source software, today announced that Chinese handset manufacturer Datang…

Collax Security Gateway Adds Advanced Spam Protection

Two New Integrated Protection Methods Improve Cascaded Spam Protection, Ease Administration.

Small businesses looking for tight network security, with easy administration will find both…

Why We Need an Open Source Second Life

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last six months, you will have noticed that the virtual world Second Life is much in the news. According to its home page, there are currently…

Hans Reiser pleads not guilty

An Oakland man pleaded not guilty today to killing his estranged wife, whose body is still missing more than two months after she disappeared.

Hans Reiser, 42, entered a not-guilty plea in…

Consequences, Intended and Otherwise

Don’t think for a second that Microsoft isn’t howling over the Linux community’s apparent fragmentation over this deal, with the OpenSUSE and Ubuntu camps now publicly trading barbs (and both are…

Open source and management disputes

Open source vendors can't be run like their closed source counterparts. The programming talent, and the people behind that talent, aren't like other managers.

I thought of this when looking…

LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling Launches Linux Toolkit

LightScribe today announced the immediate release of publicly-available Linux development tools for its Direct Disc Labeling technology. The LightScribe Linux public software development kit (SDK…