Why We Need an Open Source Second Life
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last six months, you will have noticed that the virtual world Second Life is much in the news. According to its home page, there are currently…
Hans Reiser pleads not guilty
An Oakland man pleaded not guilty today to killing his estranged wife, whose body is still missing more than two months after she disappeared.
Hans Reiser, 42, entered a not-guilty plea in…
Consequences, Intended and Otherwise
Don’t think for a second that Microsoft isn’t howling over the Linux community’s apparent fragmentation over this deal, with the OpenSUSE and Ubuntu camps now publicly trading barbs (and both are…
Open source and management disputes
Open source vendors can't be run like their closed source counterparts. The programming talent, and the people behind that talent, aren't like other managers.
I thought of this when looking…
LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling Launches Linux Toolkit
LightScribe today announced the immediate release of publicly-available Linux development tools for its Direct Disc Labeling technology. The LightScribe Linux public software development kit (SDK…
Drupal 5 Beta 2 Released
Drupal 5.0 beta 2 release is out in public. Countless bug fixes and over 160 committed patches, version 5 is starting to take shape. Get involved with the best Content Managment Software out there…
Red Hat dumping Nasdaq for NYSE
Red Hat expects its shares to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange beginning December 12, the Linux seller said earlier this month.
The Raleigh, N.C.-based company said it expects…
Trolltech ready-made software suites for Linux-based mobile phones
Trolltech, the company that makes software faster to build and easier to use, today announced a new development initiative, Qtopia Greensuite. The Initiative actively addresses reducing a…
Xandros Desktop - Professional Released
Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows, today announced the addition of "Xandros Desktop - Professional," featuring advanced 3D desktop graphics effects,…
openSUSE holds public IRC Q&A on Microsoft/Novell deal
OpenSUSE project developers held a public IRC meeting at noon EST Monday to discuss the recently announced and highly controversial Microsoft/Novell agreements. Nat Friedman, chief technical and…