NASA uses open-source development to create new glove
Call it open-source, crowd-source, user-generated, whatever: the anyone-can-contribute, cream rises to the top no matter its origin model exemplified by everything from the Firefox browser to the…
Novell unleashes hundreds of developers for SUSE Hack Week
Novell is setting its entire Linux engineering team loose to hack on whatever Linux or open source projects interest them for the week of June 25 - 29. To make it easier for hackers to find and…
Firefox 3 and Google team up for offline apps
Mozilla and Google are collaborating on an effort to make web applications work offline.
Firefox 3 will be the first internet browser to offer offline web application support when it…
Linux becomes mature and achieves excellence
In recent years, the world's leading software and hardware providers such as IBM and Intel are rushing to do compatibility testing and quality authentication with China's local Linux products. It…
Linux coders tackle power efficiency
Maybe you'd be better off if you didn't spend so much time looking at your watch.
That, loosely speaking, is the rationale behind a significant change at the heart of Linux that programmers…
Goldman Sachs: Linux Will Dominate in the Corporate Data Center
There's a very interesting paper published by Goldman Sachs and posted by Hewlett Packard, Fear the Penguin. You will recall that both companies sent representatives to join Steve Ballmer and Ron…
Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand player
The BBC is being threatened with an anti-trust challenge in Europe over its use of the Windows Media format in its on demand service, iPlayer, which is in the final stages of testing.
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Microsoft's caught distributing Ubuntu?
This is too funny not to show you. Microsoft has a site for downloads of various software products, not just their own. It's called Windows Marketplace. Yesterday, for a brief shining moment, you…
The Open Source CEO: Dries Buytaert, Drupal
In this tenth installment of the Open Source CEO Series, I shifted gears again to talk with someone that has chosen not to carry the CEO title, despite ample opportunity to claim it. (I know a…
Vista 'more secure than OS X and Linux'
Microsoft has boasted in a new study that Windows Vista has needed fewer security patches than any other recently released desktop operating system.
"Windows Vista has an improved security…