Virtualize Windows on Linux? Microsoft Says No Way!
Microsoft's Sam Ramji slammed the door on virtualizing Microsoft's newest desktop operating systems (XP and Vista) on Linux yesterday. In a speech at LinuxWorld, the director of Microsoft's open-…
Australia believes OOXML endorsement may be in breach of the Trade Practices Act
The Open Source Industry of Australia (OSIA) has formally contacted Standards Australia, requesting that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format not be endorsed by the body as an ISO standard…
BitTorrent Addresses Closed Source Issues
BitTorrent gained prominence in the file-sharing community largely due to its open source nature. What began as an unknown file-sharing client quickly diversified into a vast collection of…
The problem on Linux/FOSS game development
Linux has evolved to a pretty decent Desktop platform these last years. It features a fast, stable and productive work environment for various purposes. Linux (and especially Ubuntu) is doing his…
Microsoft says War on Terror in overblown
When does too much security become, well, too much? According to Steve Riley, senior security strategist at Microsoft, it becomes too much when the cost of mitigating the risk outweighs the cost…
Baking and Breaking the OLPC
Image yourself as 21-year-old Australian Joel Stanley, who not only snagged a coveted Google Summer of Code (GSoC) spot, he is spending his internship at One Laptop Per Child's Cambridge…
Windows/Linux interoperability, sincerely yours
For all the hot-headed sparring between the Linux and Windows communities, Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s director of technical platform strategy, talks straightforward about wanting Windows/Linux…
Linux Kernel Maintainer: Get Involved!
It may be thankless, boring work, but you have to get more involved in building the Linux Kernel.
That was the underlying message to Sun Microsystems and Microsoft by Linux Kernel co-…
Ubuntu Mobile On the Nokia 770/N800?
"There's been a lot of interest lately in Ubuntu's initiative to produce an embedded version of its Linux distribution for mobile devices. Initially the consensus was that it would be x86 only,…
openSUSE Project Turns Two with Improved Build Service and 10.3 Beta
On the second anniversary of the creation of the openSUSE project, the community program this week marked two new milestones – the availability of the first beta of openSUSE 10.3 and the continued…