GNOME Launch Box version 2 Released
GNOME Launch Box is an application launcher inspired by QuickSilver, more information is available on the project homepage.
GNOME Launch Box version 2 Released.
Legally Speaking: What GPLv3 Means for the Microsoft-Novell Pact
With Antoinette (Toni) Tease, a registered patent attorney who practices in the areas of intellectual property and technology law. She currently serves as chair of the information technology (IT)…
Project Darkstar, Open Source Plans
At the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced plans to open source Project Darkstar, a online game server platform written entirely in Java technology.…
FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
FAA chief information officer David Bowen said he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers and…
Dell Talks About Prebundling Linux, AGAIN
Dell is considering offering the Linux operating system as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows on its personal computers, a Dell spokesman said on Tuesday.
Dell Talks About Prebundling…
In conversation with Katie McAuliff, of Novell Canada
In January, Chicago native Katie McAuliff, who has worked for Novell Inc. for 13 years, took over as president of Novell Canada, replacing Don Chapman. Ms McAuliff will oversee all facets of the…
Schools across Japan may switch to Linux
Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms…
The missing link in mainstream desktop Linux adoption
Well, in fact, there isn’t one missing link. But in this FOSSwire article, I’m going to look at one major issue standing in the way of getting desktop Linux any serious market share. And that is…
Oracle Proposes Open Source Persistence Project at Eclipse Foundation
Today, at the EclipseCon Conference, Oracle, a newly appointed Eclipse Board Member and Strategic Developer, announced it will donate its award winning Java persistence framework, Oracle TopLink,…
Red Hat Readies RHEL 5 for March 14 Launch
The wait is almost over. It may have taken two weeks longer than Red Hat Inc would have liked, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the updated version of the company's commercial Linux platform, will…