Is it time to exit from Windows?
The offer of pre-installed Linux by mainstream PC makers doesn't mean the open-source operating system is poised to sweep aside Microsoft’s; but while its cost advantages may never be compelling,…
GNOME 2.20.0 Beta 1 Released
This is our seventh development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007. New features are still arriving, so your mission is simple : Go download it. Go…
Interview: Bob Sutor of IBM
An interview with IBM's Vice President of Open Source and Standards about their Open Source Strategy, the recent pledge of its patents for more than 150 open software standards, his take on the…
Sourcefire Aquires ClamAV Project
Open source innovator and SNORT creator, Sourcefire, Inc., today announced that it has acquired ClamAV, a leading open source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project. Sourcefire's first…
Debian 4.0r1 Released
The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename Etch). This update adds security updates to the stable release, together with a few corrections to serious…
Fiire unveils new LinuxMCE product
Fiire announced the FiireStation 1, a 1" thick media connection for the FiireEngine designed to fit behind a Plasma or LCD TV. The FiireStation 1" runs the media client software of the LinuxMCE…
Free Download Manager 2.5. Released
Free Download Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
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Debian Turns 14 Today!
Debian, one of my long time favorite Linux distributions turned 14 today. Without the Debian project there would be no Ubuntu.
Debian was begun in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, as a new…
The Linux Weather Forecast
"The Linux Foundation launched the Linux Weather Forecast yesterday. It features 'current conditions' for kernel development, a 'short-term forecast,' and a 'long-term forecast.' Now developers…
3Com banks on open-source strategy
Speaking at a media briefing in Malaysia on Tuesday, Peter Chai, vice president and general manager of 3Com Asia-Pacific, said the company's open services networking (OSN) platform will enable its…