Calling all Open Source innovators 8 Jul 2010 | 01:15 am

[Press Release] Calling all Open Source innovators: showcase your innovative product at the ‘Demo Cup’ and enter it for the ‘Open Innovation Awards’ at the 2010 Open World Forum Paris, 30 June 2010,...

smb.conf Can Trigger Windows 7 BSOD 1 Apr 2010 | 04:54 pm

Save MySQL! » Customers pay the bill 9 Jan 2010 | 06:26 pm

Show your support for MySQL In April 2009, Oracle announced that it had agreed to acquire Sun. Since Sun had acquired MySQL the previous year, this would mean that Oracle, the market leader for close...

London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux 9 Oct 2009 | 03:54 pm

In the Can't Afford to "Die Like a Dog" Dept. London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux: When it comes to business computer systems, nothing is more mission-critical than the massive trading sof...

biting the hand… that gives out driver code? 23 Jul 2009 | 03:37 am

C#, Mono, and checking the fine print Today Microsoft released some GPL driver code for Linux for some hardware. Why? Well, so that the hardware could be better virtualized in a VM running Linux on a...

25 highly anticipated open-source releases coming this year 9 Apr 2009 | 06:11 am

Are we there yet? How much looonnnger? Esther Schindler sifts through 25 highly anticipated open-source releases coming this year which will be of interest to people in various categories from IT Adm...

Ten OSS Forks & Why they Forked 23 Oct 2008 | 04:07 am

Forks in the head ...er, *road* Royal Pingdom serves up 10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened. Some reasons better than others, of course. Interesting to note where the fork...

Woz predicts death of the iPod 10 Oct 2008 | 12:03 pm

Maybe if it came in more colours...? Steve Wozniak speaks out, predicting the death of the iPod and suggesting things he doesn’t like about the iPhone, comparing it with Google’s Android platform. Wo...

Mandriva Linux 2009 Released 10 Oct 2008 | 09:21 am

Will that be FTP or Torrent? Mandriva’s latest release: Mandriva Linux 2009. Get it while it’s hot! Mandriva’s always been a bit of an overlooked distro, imo… but it continues to install easily and w...

iPod roots traced back to 1970s UK 8 Oct 2008 | 02:35 pm

Solid-state music player invented same year Sony markets Walkman This is amusing: apparently the roots of the iPod’s development are traced back to 1979, when “Kane Kramer from Hertfordshire filed a ...