Previous DayIt's already happening
Talkback I can understand the confusion, but I suspect the reason it is confusing is that the "community" is now so large and already has such a diversity of different individual reasons for doing the work...
Ubuntu cloud-computing components released
News Ubuntu users can create their own Amazon-compatible clouds, as Canonical calls for open standards
Yahoo to shut down GeoCities
Analysis A decade after it paid $2.9bn for the personal homepage service, Yahoo is to call time on GeoCities later this year
Interesting times for OpenOffice
Blog In troubled economic times the attractions of free software become increasingly obvious, and even for die-hard users of Microsoft Office, the prospect of upgrading to Office 2010 in Q1 next year...
IT pros advised to 'bed down' in jobs
News While the number of tech professionals finding work has increased, there is still uncertainty over jobs, says technology skills group e-skills
EMC and VMware report difficult quarters
News The storage hardware supplier with a little help from its virtualisation subsidiary reports first-quarter profits that are OK but warns that second quarter will be tougher
Ten reasons Gnome has the edge on KDE
Comment The KDE open-source desktop has lost its way, leaving Gnome as the clear frontrunner, says Jack Wallen
Open source coders aren't lazy enough
Blog My enthusiasm for open source software partly stems from the times I've spent as a coder, where being able to reuse code for a particular task made my life much easier. Free licensing of code makes...
I do not really understand the financial model of open sourc...
Talkback The reality is that good software needs constant development and this happens through the "open source community" with "volunteer" developers. But surely most of these developers are people being...
RE:New Ubuntu 9.04 installed - not many dead
Blog Comment I have purloined one of those spiffy Intel SSDs, which will be the focal point of some multi-OS, multi-disk format weekend shenanigans. I may also, if I've got time, shove 8.10 and 9.04 onto...
Fund will help alleged Swedish pirates hit by new law
News A Pirate Bay spokesperson and Swedish politicians have created a fund to help alleged pirates fight accusations after the passage of new antipiracy law
Apple retail cuts 1,600 full-time positions
News The company's retail-store network shed around 1,600 full-time equivalent positions during its second fiscal quarter as the economy slowed
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog As well described in an article by David Meyer here on ZDNet UK, Canonical released Ubuntu 9.04, known as "Jaunty Jackalope" (as time goes by, I find myself less and less enamoured with the naming...
Google tackles severe Chrome security flaw
News A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google's browser could let an attacker use a different browser to make Chrome do his bidding
Is the sun still shining at Sun?
Blog Right about the time I was thinking about heading out to Sun’s JavaOne event this time last year, I don’t think I could have predicted where the company would be sat now even at a stretch. But it...
Microsoft revenue takes a tumble
News The software maker for the first time fails to see year-over-year revenue climb, as sales fall six percent from a year earlier for March quarter
