FOSDEM 2007

The seventh Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in…

Has 'open source' become a misnomer?

Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to…

Cuba embraces open-source software

Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source…

OpenCola - Open Source Coca Cola

If you’ve been to a computer show in recent months you might have seen it: a shiny silver drink can with a ring-pull logo and the words “opencola” on the side. Inside is a fizzy drink that tastes…

Blender 2.43 Released

Blender is an open source tool for 3D-modeling, rigging, animation, fluid and object simulation and rendering. All of that and some more, in under 15MB. Check out their website and this great…

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

"The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge'). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the…

Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to ‘respect IP rights’

The same week that Microsoft issued a press release providing further details about some of the technological advances that will result from the November 2006 technology agreement between Novell…

OpenVZ Open Source Software Virtualization Project Has Great 2006

The open source project, OpenVZ (www.openvz.org) delivered some 50 software updates and in total more than 2 terabytes of its virtualization software were downloaded in 2006 by the user community…

Hottest stories in the Linux community: Weekly Wrap-up for Feb 17 2007

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Ubuntu Herd 4 Released

- Virtual Windows to Run Unmodified on Linux…

Wine 0.9.31 Released

Wine 0.9.31 was released today, with the following main changes:

* Many Direct3D fixes and performance improvements.
* Several new comctl32 test cases.…