Kimball Takes It Under Advisement - SCO v Novell Hearing - Updated 2Xs
Chris Brown just got home from the hearing in SCO v. Novell, and he says it went well. His longer report will come after he can type it up, but as expected the judge took it under advisement. No.…
Sirius to sponsor DebConf7
Sirius Corporation, Europe's leading Open Source services group, has been announced as a sponsor for the forthcoming DebConf7 conference taking place from Sunday 17 to Saturday 23 June 2007,…
KWin Composite Brings Bling to KDE
KWin, KDE's window manager, has been around since KDE 2.0 (replacing KWM in KDE 1.x) and has grown to be a mature and stable window manager over the years.
For KDE 4, however, there were a…
Why upgrade to GPL version 3
Version 3 of the GNU General Public License will soon be finished, enabling free software packages to upgrade from GPL version 2. This article explains why upgrading the license is important.…
Open Source Video Wins NetSquared Non Profit Technology Project Award
Democracy Player (soon to be renamed Miro), an Open Source Video Application (www.getdemocracy.com) based in Worcester, MA, was awarded $15,000 for its focus on using online video technology to…
Google Buys GreenBorder Technologies; Launches Open Source Project
Google has bought out online security startup GreenBorder Technologies, whose software primarily is used to guard against malware. The software was first developed for the corporate market and it…
MySQL to Hold its First Users Conference in Japan
MySQL AB will hold its first ever MySQL users conference in Asia. We cordially present the MySQL Users Conference Japan 2007, coming to you this September.
There will be a keynote, more…
ATI Linux x86 Display Driver 8.37.6 Released
ATI has released version 8.37.6 of their display driver. New features are AMD Catalyst Control Center version 1.0. This version of the Catalyst Control Center provides a 3D aspect page which…
FSF Releases "Last Call" Draft of GPLv3
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the fourth and “last call” draft for version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most widely used free software license.…
Lina runs Linux Apps on Windows and Mac OS X
Lina, an Alameda software company, unveils LINA. LINA enables a Linux application, developed and compiled once, to run with native look and feel on three different platforms. The company will…