How To Live an Open-Source Musical Life With Ogg Vorbis
In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It's an educational primer for…
Dell's Ubuntu Offering Shows Why Linux Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Dell is moving full speed ahead with its rush to deliver Ubuntu Linux on a bunch of upcoming laptops and desktops, but there's a potential problem looming: Multimedia support on the machines may…
Google must share code, open-source expert says
Companies such as Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said…
San Diego Students Learn on Linux Desktops from Novell
San Diego Unified School District has selected SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell(R) as the standard platform for its Always-On Learning Initiative, a one-to-one mobile computing…
Red Hat chief tells start ups to grow, not cash out
Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik today told startups to forget the "romance" of open source and build businesses that compete with proprietary vendors on services and value.
Opening…
H&R Block Embraces Benefits of Open Source
H&R Block's use of open-source technologies is not about saving money, but rather about creating revenue, acquiring and retaining customers, and providing technologies they really care about,…
Zenoss Chosen as Novell Market Start Partner
Zenoss announced they have been selected as a new member of the Novell Market Start program. Novell Market Start promotes enterprise-class solutions for small and medium business customers that…
Doing Business With Open Source
For more than a decade, open source software has been mostly the province of programmers. Although the underpinnings of the Internet itself are powered mostly by open source software, it’s been…
KDE 3.5.7 Released
The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other…
Sun's Schwartz Pledges to Use Patents to Protect Red Hat and Ubuntu
You have to take a look at Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog today. He has pledged the company will use its patents to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu. That's the headline, and I'm really happy to know…