Windows alternatives gain ground
When it comes to desktop and network systems, small businesses have little choice but to go with the status-quo offerings of Microsoft, right?
Wrong, says Richard Giroux, IT manager at…
Call for Papers Opens for ApacheCon Europe
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) invites submissions to its official conference, ApacheCon Europe 2008. To be held 7 April through 11 April, 2008 at the new Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City…
Monsoon Multimedia to Comply with GNU General Public License
Monsoon Multimedia announced efforts to fully comply with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Monsoon is in settlement negotiations with BusyBox to resolve the matter and intends to fully comply…
Red Hat Does Well, But Why Does It Suddently Need Licensing?
"It is already quite well established that Novell failed to stop Red Hat’s momentum after it had signed deal with Microsoft. The figures which Red Hat included in last night’s report left little…
Just how did Microsoft get OOXML support in Eastern Europe?
After the International Organization for Standardization voted to reject Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as a standard, the detailed results from ISO member countries give us a lot of…
Ubuntu 7.10 Beta Released
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the beta release of Ubuntu 7.10 and its variants, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu. Codenamed "Gutsy Gibbon", 7.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of…
Smoothwall 3.0 Released
Smoothwall has released their new version of their free Web-Based firewall. The newer version has lots of new features such as, a fourth interface "Purple for wireless clients". It's also been…
Windows Media Player 9 & 10 on Linux with Wine
"I'm aware there are many open source multimedia tools that will play most audio and video formats on Linux these days but many people have come to like Windows Media player over the years. And…
Red Hat Appoints Two New Financial Executives
Redhat announced the promotion of Mark E. Cook to Vice President, Finance and Controller and the appointment of Paul Argiry as Vice President and Treasurer. Both will report to Executive Vice…
MontaVista readies new Linux mobile phone OS
MontaVista will ship a "fifth-generation" Linux-based operating system for mobile phones in mid-November. The company says Mobilinux 5.0 will offer new security, power, networking, and quick-boot…