City uses Linux, OSS for its free municipal Wi-Fi
Since last week the coastal city of Rosario, Argentina's second largest city and home of about a million people is among the growing club of World cities with free municipal Wi-Fi access.
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Acer: 'No UK demand' for Linux laptops
The Acer Aspire 5710Z has gone on sale in Singapore pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows. Ubuntu is currently one of the world's most popular and easiest-to-use Linux distributions.…
Another Smooth Move from Microsoft: Watch out, Ruby. Watch out OSI.
I guess you saw the news about Microsoft submitting some licenses to OSI hoping for approval as "open source" licenses. You can watch Bill Hilf of Microsoft giving his talk at OSCON, which is…
MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian
SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu. In March of 2006, MEPIS founder Warren Woodford, decided to switch to Ubuntu from…
The long hard road to open source
Will Microsoft's new licenses change the way we think about open source? Regular columnist Bill Thompson believes they could.
The long hard road to open source.
Linux Tool Points Out Power-Wasting Applications
Linux systems' power consumption is rapidly becoming a top concern for operators of large data centers. A University of California Berkeley study recently attributed 90 percent of the increase in…
Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux?
"I have the urge to commit my 24" Core 2 Duo iMac to a single Linux operating system, thus giving up the goodness of my beloved Mac OS X. I am not a stranger to Linux, but I am a stranger to…
Sun's 'Project Copy Linux' not a Linux copy
Sun's operating system chief and Debian author Ian Murdock was at OSCON, elaborating on Project Indiana. He covered, for the most part, ground we've already been over, which places Indiana as Sun'…
Asia-Pacific to be the ‘Silicon Valley’ for Open Source
The Open Source movement is creating a new business organization paradigm, which will soon shift the center of software development from Silicon Valley to the Asia-Pacific, including the…
Microsoft Seeks Open-Source Certification
After months of antagonizing the open-source community, Microsoft Corp. now appears to be trying to engage it by seeking an official stamp of approval for the licenses that the company uses to…