Fedora Core 6 Test3 Released

The Fedora Project announces the third and final test release of the Fedora Core 6 development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and ppc/ppc64 architectures, including Intel based Macintosh…

Massive desktop Linux migration kept quiet

Why has the country's biggest known desktop Linux implementation gone relatively unpublicised for so long?

This week I wrote about Kennards Hire's project to migrate its whole IT…

Wine 0.9.21 Released

This is release 0.9.21 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What's new in this release:
- OpenGL restructurations.
- The usual assortment of MSI improvements.…

Mozilla hacker responds to "611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities in Firefox"

A few days ago Slashdot trumpeted the headline "611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities Found In Firefox", based on a post by Adam Harrison who had applied his company's static code analysis tool to the…

Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web services

Microsoft is pledging not to assert its patents pertaining to nearly three dozen Web services specifications--a move designed to ease concerns among developers by creating a legal environment more…

Linux: the new OS celebrity

The mobile industry is a lot like Hollywood. Celebrities hop in and out of the fame limelight at startling speeds; just like various technologies in wireless. Right now, WiMAX is the darling of…

New Senior Vice President to lead Xandros' global sales campaign

NEW YORK, NY - Xandros, the leading provider of easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows desktop and server products, today announced the appointment of Jeff Kuligowski as Senior Vice President…

Beta Version Of Tresys Brickwall Enterprise For Linux Released

Tresys Technology released a beta version of its Tresys Brickwall Enterprise Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This is the second offering in the Tresys BrickwallTM Security Suite of…

People Behind KDE: Allan Sandfeld Jensen

Behind KDE is featuring Allan Sandfeld Jensen. He is a KDE core developer, mostly active for KHTML and KDE multimedia. After reading the interview you will know what his personal "carewolf" looks…

Is PHP The Cure For The 'Broken' Web?

Those are the words that Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, said to kick off his keynote at the php|works conference under way here.

He said the current state of the Internet includes a…