Open-source Alfresco shifts to GPL
Alfresco, a start-up that commercializes open-source software for helping customers keep track of their digital documents, has adopted the General Public License in an effort to attract outside…
Big Debian Linux Payday For HP
Who said you can't make money by supporting free community-based Linux distributions?
HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately…
Pentaho Announces General Availability of Pentaho AJAX
Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced General Availability of Pentaho’s new Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)…
OpenSource medical spelling word list released
OpenMedSpel is a open source medical spelling word list that is released under a GPL license. OpenMedSpel was derived from the word lists complied for MedSpel, a shareware medical spelling tool…
NTFS driver for Linux finishes beta phase
Version 1.0 of NTFS-3g, a free NTFS driver for Linux, has been released. Project manager Szabolcs Szakacsits has declared the driver ready for productive use after the release candidate published…
Sister Judith: "We don’t know what OS God uses, but we use Linux"
Sister Judith, the director of the Vatican website, discusses the challenges of building a site for one of the world's oldest organizations.
Sister Judith: "We don’t know what OS God uses,…
Mandriva open office in Lagos
Mandriva West Africa to start operations in February 2007 to offer the Mandriva Linux operating system and open source applications and solutions to individuals, educational institutions, public…
SA government to switch to open source
The South African Cabinet today announced that it had approved a free and open source strategy and that government would migrate its current software to free and open source software.
At a…
Ten Leading Open Source Innovators
Open source discussion has moved from Linux to innovation happening beyond the popular operating system. Open source models are flourishing in CRM (SugarCRM – www.sugarcrm.com), Messaging (Scalix…
Download the Linux kernel v0.01 -- It's only around 10,000 lines
The 0.01 kernel downloads to about 10,000 lines of C and assembler, which is fairly manageable. Note that it's a barely functional UNIX with tons of bugs, but that doesn't stop it being useful.…