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…
IBM, schools pursue open-source research
IBM, which has been a big backer of open-source software, is working with seven universities on new computing research projects whose fruits would be widely shared rather than held as intellectual…
Law In Business: Open source of confusion
At face value, the open source software (OSS) proposition looks too good to be true. Free, or at least inexpensive, software applications that provide equivalent functionality to much more…
MythDora-3.1 Released
This is a bug fix release to MythDora 3.0. This version should correct the mythbackend issue that some were having as well as an Nvidia bad colors display in mythtvsetup.
MythDora-3.1…
Hans Reiser Laughs During Court Proceedings
Oakland computer programmer Hans Reiser repeatedly laughed in court and whispered in his lawyer's ear today as prosecutors presented circumstantial evidence aimed at proving that he murdered his…
The future of RPM
There has been a lot of discussion in the past few months about RPM -- its present state, its future plans, and its leadership team. In particular, the Fedora Project has received numerous…