Red Hat Shares Fall 3.3%
If Tuesday serves as any indication, the third quarter may not be a good one for Linux king Red Hat.
On the same day that the company's Chief Financial Officer Charlie Peters said Oracle's…
Interview with Justin Steinman of Novell
The Internet was buzzing these days about the recent Novell-Microsoft agreement. Under an unprecedented deal, Microsoft has agreed to offer sales support for SUSE Linux and start working on…
Liberating Verizon FiOS using free operating systems
As we prepared to open a new Freedom Technology Center in a rehabilitated site in New Jersey, I came to learn that Verizon was capable of offering fiber service at our location. Officially, they…
Build a Web spider on Linux
Web spiders are software agents that traverse the Internet gathering, filtering, and potentially aggregating information for a user. Using common scripting languages and their collection of Web…
OpenVZ Delivers Live Migration Capability
HERNDON, Va., November 14, 2006 -- The OpenVZ project (http://openvz.org) today announced availability of its operating system-level server virtualization software in the form of a kernel based on…
Red Hat Stock Climbing Back
Red Hat (RHAT) shares have come scratching back from their worst levels following the twin announcements that Oracle (ORCL) plans to offer maintenance service to Red Hat Linux users while…
Open-source project treads on Google Maps turf
The U.K.-based OpenStreetMap (OSM) mapping data is collected by volunteers using GPS devices to record their movements as they drive, cycle or walk along all the roads in a particular area.
…Apache project keeps pace with Java changes
Apache Harmony, started last year, is creating an open-source version of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), software for making Java programs on PCs.
About two weeks ago, the board…
How Open Source Software Informs Journalism
Networked journalism takes obvious cues from the open source software movement, but because the two seem so distant it helps to spell out these parallels. Below are 10 examples of how the software…
Joomla! - Open Source Content Management System Award Winner
Packt Publishing today (14 November) announced Joomla! as the the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award.
With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source…