Stories and background information on individual open source applications and projects
This page shows all the posts in which we have linked to stories on particular open source applications. The links point to posts on the UKUUG MediaWatch blog, and are sorted by the time of the post, with the latest first.
• Linux - (from Wikipedia) Linux is a computer operating system and its kernel. It is among the most famous examples of free software and of open-source development.
Stories mentioning Linux:
- Converting to Linux
- Linux on your keyring
- Now here’s an idea… – who should be promoting Linux?
- A Mac fan diagnoses Linux faults
- BBC on Linux in Brazil
- Latin Linux - the holistic analysis
- DTI to fund OSS project – gov.uk’s Department of Trade and Indistry announces support for a project to make Linux more secure
- Spinning server statistics – how different sites put different emphasis on the same stats comparing sales of Windows and Linux servers
- “The open source heretic” – Forbes magazine profiles Larry McVoy, one of the protagonists in the BitKeeper debacle. See also “A setback for Linux” – Forbes magazine on the BitKeeper row
- Nokia chooses OSS for new market – Nokia announces a new Linux-powered handheld web tablet
- Big oil’s Linux platform
- Linux in Church
- Introduction to open source, from Islam online
- TCO and patents in SA – comments from a South African Linux developer
- What took you so long? – Cuba’s government announces a move away from proprietary software and towards Linux
- Brazil’s Linux stance pays off for Novell and Intel
- BBC News’ useless article on BECTA – critique of an article on the BBC News site
- Brazil could export open source experise to Africa and Mid East
- Teaching old hardware new tricks – open source software can often make old computers perform better
• Firefox - (from Wikipedia) Mozilla Firefox (originally known as Phoenix and briefly as Mozilla Firebird) is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers.
Stories mentioning Firefox:
- Today is opposites day…
- The award’s have been and gone, but the browsers fight on
- Firefoxers frustrated by loose standards
- Get a warm fuzzy feeling… – a plan to produce CDs containing open source apps such as Firefox and Blender3D that can be sold to raise money for charity
- Firefox 1.1 on its way
- New anti-phishing toolbar for Firefox
- Microsoft steals Firefox’s closes
- Big Blue’s allegiance falls with Firefox – IBM advises its employees to adopt the OS browser
- Firefox hits the headlines again
- On Firefox…
• OpenOffice.org (aka OOo) - (from Wikipedia) OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite. It is available for many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems including Solaris and Linux, and Mac OS X. It is intended to be compatible with, and compete with, Microsoft Office.
- OOo now available in Gaelic
- Guardian stories – the newspaper encourages organisations to think twice before automatically buying from Microsoft
- The Guardian reviews Open Office (this is different to the one above)
- Birmingham to sample open source
- Open Source on the subcontinent
- A few articles from The FT
• Blender 3d - (from Wikipedia) Blender is an open-source software for modelling and rendering three-dimensional graphics and animations.
- Get a warm fuzzy feeling… – a plan to produce CDs containing open source apps such as Firefox and Blender3D that can be sold to raise money for charity
• PHP / MySQL – (from Wikipedia) - PHP is a popular open-source programming language used primarily for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, other software. (from Wikipedia) MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, relational database server.
- BitKeeper fallout affects more projects
- PHP people Zend team up with Oracle
- ZDNet roundup – contains a link to a story on the latest version of MySQL
