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Lindows chief funds Xbox hack
News The revelation was made in a posting earlier this week on the Xbox Linux Project site at SourceForge, a site for collaborative development of open-source software projects. For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel...
[January 3, 2003, 7:49]
McBride reaches for rhetoric in Linux battle
News In the past 20 years, the Free Software Foundation and others in the open source software movement have set out to actively and intentionally undermine the US and European systems of copyrights and patents," McBride wrote.
[December 8, 2003, 13:45]
Gates vs Noorda: Here we go again?
News But for the majority of hardware and software companies with access to the Windows source -- companies that work on multiple operating system projects -- it requires solid "Chinese walls" between divisions working on different operating systems.
[September 27, 2000, 13:55]
Mono update promises to pull in .NET 2.0
News Version 2 of Mono, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework, has been released. Mono is the toolset that was used to create Moonlight, a subset of the project and an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich...
[October 7, 2008, 13:30]
Developing open source
News A small team of developers in Rwanda was just beginning work on a project to produce a localised version of OpenOffice, an open-source alternative to Microsoft's market-leading productivity software, when they realised they had a problem.
[February 16, 2004, 13:05]
Gnome Linux to attack Windows
News On Tuesday, the Gnome Foundation is also expected to announce that it is adopting the open source version of Sun's StarOffice desktop applications suite and will turn it into Gnome Office, confirmed sources close to Sun.
[August 15, 2000, 8:45]
Sun may shelter Java users from SCO
News Microsoft executives also have warned the public about the legal dangers of open-source software in the hopes of convincing buyers to choose its Windows operating system and applications. SCO's legal position has drawn the ire of open-source...
[September 11, 2003, 9:40]
Open source fans to emulate .Net
News The open source movement is a descendent of the free software movement founded in 1984 by Richard Stallman, who set out to clone the Unix operating system under a project called GNU, or GNU's Not Unix.
[July 10, 2001, 12:06]
Kernel maintainer backs UnitedLinux
News Because of its open-source licence, which allows software source code to be modified and redistributed so long as the resulting code is itself open source, a number of different distributions have emerged, and all contain a slightly different mix...
[July 5, 2002, 13:28]
Sun: P2P works for business
News To contrast the Sun-led project with Microsoft's plan, Soto noted that Jxta is designed to run on a range of devices and, through its open-source initiative, can work with several programming languages and operating systems.
[March 5, 2003, 10:50]
Red Hat beats analyst forecasts
News One of Red Hat's chief competitors is Sun Microsystems, which develops the Solaris operating system and now its open source OpenSolaris relative. At the same time, Red Hat's chief rival, Suse Linux Enterprise Server seller Novell, has been under...
[September 29, 2005, 17:35]
Caldera loads Linux apps on UnixWare
News The toolbox contains a range of open-source and GNU software and applications, including recompiled versions of the Gnome and KDE desktop environments. Find out how the open-source movement is revolutionising the high-tech world at the Linux Lounge.
[March 27, 2001, 12:21]
SuSE to sell Linux PCs online
News This new offering reflects the growing demand for affordable and innovative Linux systems and the widespread adoption of open source," said Holger Dyroff, SuSE's general manager of the Americas, in a statement.
[July 15, 2003, 11:32]
Dell seeks to clarify Linux PC sales
News Because licensing agreements require that Dell ship at least a single operating system with its PCs, the company includes a disk of an open-source version of DOS in the box. Questar, an Italian-based computer seller, has begun to ship Optiplex...
[July 7, 2004, 9:00]
Perens: Avoid repeating Unix mistakes
News The entire domain-name system of the Internet runs on BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain), which is an open-source name server.I don't think corporate IT folks ever considered Microsoft applications or operating systems to be "safe.
[December 5, 2002, 6:55]
Netbooks turn into Androids
Blog It's possible that proprietary operating system vendors would allow modifications on this scale, but they almost certainly wouldn't allow redistribution of the source code, and would probably still charge their per-unit licensing fee, despite the...
[March 20, 2009, 12:09]
Sun names Xen-based hypervisor 'xVM'
News Sun, a long-time participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its Solaris-based offshoot "xVM", short for "x86 Virtual Machine". XVM is a part of the open-source incarnation of Solaris, OpenSolaris, but it has yet to be moved to...
[September 14, 2007, 17:59]
Sun unveils its secret weapon against Microsoft
News The open-source community has challenged not just Microsoft but also Sun with successes such as the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server. Jxta will be open-source software, meaning that anyone can modify and redistribute the software...
[February 16, 2001, 8:34]
Symbian Foundation launch: What members said
News Moving the code to open source will engage the broader community to participate in future development and innovations," he said. The open Symbian ecosystem, now unified through the foundation, will become richer and stronger, especially when the...
[June 24, 2008, 14:58]
Amazon's A9 releases toolbar for Firefox
News A9 said the toolbar, which is available for free download, will offer the same features to users of the Mozilla open-source software as it does for other browsers. The open-source browser has spurred considerable interest among Web surfers, who...
[November 2, 2004, 8:19]
