Novell - Microsoft deal extended
Blog Who would have thought the Novell-Microsoft deal would lsat this long? It originally seemed to be Novell inviting its customers to cave in to Microsoft's unsubstantiated patent claims against... [20 Aug 2008]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News The only surprise, says an open-source analyst, is that Ubuntu-sponsor Canonical has taken until now to join the foundation [19 Aug 2008]
Free ACM Linux research available online
Blog The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) has made the Linux edition of its 'SIGOPS Operating System Review' available online, security site Heise reports. Hosted on the ACM's 'Portal',... [11 Aug 2008]
IBM shares vision of Linux in 2018 
Video At the LinuxWorld conference, IBM exec Bob Sutor discusses what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices and collaborations across platforms [11 Aug 2008]
Xandros to return Freespire to Debian roots
News The company, which acquired Linspire in July, has said it will jettison a previous deal that would have based Freespire on Ubuntu [08 Aug 2008]
IBM goes open source on supercomputers
News The company has integrated and open sourced a set of tools used on some of the world's top supercomputers [06 Aug 2008]
IBM teams with Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs
News Seizing on slow enterprise uptake of Vista, IBM has teamed up with Canonical, Novell and Red Hat to globally promote PCs without Microsoft software [06 Aug 2008]
Ten tricks to make Linux boot faster
Help/HowTo On the rare occasions Linux needs to be rebooted, you may find the process takes longer than you'd like. Fortunately, there are numerous ways to speed things up [30 Jul 2008]
Microsoft allows GPL
Blog Along with its surprise funding of Apache, Microsoft has updated some aspects of its "Open Specification Promise" and - surprise - people are positive about it. Microsoft is sponsoring the... [28 Jul 2008]
Open-source sales growing despite economy
News An Open Solutions Alliance survey has found business is booming for open-source vendors, despite the general spending downturn [28 Jul 2008]
Microsoft funds Apache
Analysis The software giant is sponsoring a major open-source organisation, in a move that may not be as counterintuitive as it first appears [28 Jul 2008]
BT joins enterprise open-source community
News As a strategic partner to FossBazaar, BT joins companies like Google, HP and Novell in promoting free and open-source software in the enterprise [24 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 fuels open-source database boom
News Forrester has found that databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining momentum through new markets, despite lack of movement away from existing proprietary installations [23 Jul 2008]
Open source 'lacks enterprise-grade security'
News A new study finds lax or non-existent security processes in open-source development, serving as a warning to businesses [21 Jul 2008]
Novell beats SCO - could Sun be next?
Blog It looks like the long-running SCO-Novell trial is over, and justice is served. But could this lead to trouble for Sun? It's nicely explained by Pamela Jones at Groklaw as usual. Judge Kimball... [18 Jul 2008]
People don’t know
Blog I was chatting to a chap at The Ministry the other day, saying that he could use the Ubuntu Linux testing machine for checking webmail. He had never heard of Ubuntu. Or Linux. Or Free Open Source... [16 Jul 2008]
New Linux kernel expands virtualisation support
News A longer-than-usual release cycle results in improvements for virtualisation, wireless mesh networking, multimedia and other features [15 Jul 2008]
UK lags behind in open-source uptake
News Business in the UK are slower than their European and US counterparts in adopting open-source software, according to recent research [15 Jul 2008]
Developers respond to KDE 4 backlash
News Continued criticism of KDE 4.0 has prompted key developers of the open-source desktop environment to justify their handling of the transition from KDE 3 [14 Jul 2008]
Ten keyboard shortcuts to improve Linux
Feature A few simple shortcuts can make your work in Linux far more efficient. TechRepublic's Jack Wallen runs through 10 of his favourites, for desktop environments and window managers [14 Jul 2008]
