Binary Drivers May Be Banned
Greg Kroah-Hartman appears to be working on a kernel patch which will only allow drivers licensed under the GPL to be loaded into the kernel - at least, that’s what he said in passing in a longer…
Talking Linux IP with Bill Gates
If you could ask Bill Gates one question, what would you ask? I spent an hour today with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the company's Redmond campus. I chose to ask Bill about Microsoft's…
ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 8.32.5 Released
A new version of the ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver has been released. The driver may install on a number of Linux distributions. Refer to the Package Generation installation…
Bringing Democracy to America with FOSS
I propose we start the OVPC (One Voting-machine Per Country) project. Instead of the hodge-podge of machines and software used across the country to conduct elections, let's standardize on one…
MySQL did NOT actually drop Debian
In relation to yesterdays story 'MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux', it appears that Debain IS supported.
Linux radio suite powers independent broadcasters
Community radio stations in Sierra Leone and in other emerging democracies may well soon be powered by Campcaster 1.1, free and open source software that turns a PC running the free Linux…
Liferay Unveils Liferay Portal 4.2
Liferay today announced the release of Liferay Portal 4.2. The latest version offers added back-end enhancements to workflow and content management via integration with ServiceMix JBI, jBPM…
MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux
"MySQL quietly deprecated support for most Linux distributions on October 16, when its 'MySQL Network' support plan was replaced by 'MySQL Enterprise.' MySQL now supports only two Linux…
Release of ACCESS Linux Platform for Smartphones Pushed Back
Back at 3GSM in February, PalmSource (now officially ACCESS Systems) introduced the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP), a new Linux-based mobile operating system (OS) for smartphones that's intended to…
IDC predicts Microsoft’s anti-piracy efforts will boost Linux
IDC is the latest of the analyst firms to push its predictions for 2007 out the door, and pretty interesting reading they make too: particularly the prediction that Microsoft’s anti-piracy efforts…