A Call to Distros: Give Users What They Want
A few months ago OSNews ran a poll about the most important non-free Linux apps. Having over 8,000 votes in that poll and we consider the results pretty interesting. Interesting enough to push…
Interview with Mandriva Developers
Mandriva Linux, once the most popular desktop GNU/Linux distribution, still enjoys an enthusiastic following and a positive cashflow, and has settled into the niche it established in 1999: a…
Firefox 2 Released
Firefox 2 is the next generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla.
These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions, known issues…
Open source advocates step up government lobby efforts
A Canadian open source group focused on the public sector is bypassing this week's GTEC conference in favour of a direct marketing approach to members of parliament.
Getting Open Source…
Merging corporations with co-ops and open source
Greg Dean, a communications student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, has a new twist on open source business models. For more than a year, Dean has been working with his friends…
Novell Ships SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time
Novell today announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, enabling customers to realize the benefits of Linux for real-time applications. SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time from…
Nina Reiser Reward Increased To $25,000
A reward for information leading to the discovery of an Oakland woman who has been missing for seven weeks and is believed to have been murdered by her estranged husband has been increased to $25,…
What Is Free Software? A Reply From The Source
A few days ago I had the honour of hosting in my Rome apartment, freedom activist and hacker Richard Stallman, a near-like mythological figure in the world of computing, hacking and a pioneer…
Recover Data From a dead hard drive using ddrescue
Like dd, dd_rescue does copy data from one file or block device to another.dd_rescue is a tool to help you to save data from crashed partition. It tries to read and if it fails, it will go on with…
Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Released
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Core 6 (Zod). Install-time access to third-party package repositories, extensive performance improvements, support for Intel-based…