A slew of news came out of Novell this week as the company wound up to today’s release of SuSE 10.1.
Parallel to the release new iteration of their OS was the release of a desktop package bundling various pieces of OSS. The suite includes Novell’s Open Enterprise Server, ZenWorks desktop management tools, Novell Linux Desktop […]
A report released this week by anti-virus software company McAfee has blamed the increased prevalence of rootkits on the open source community. Rootkits, which exploit security vulnerabilities to allow third parties covert access to a computer system, exist for several operating systems but are a particular problem for Windows users.
According to Stuart McClure, senior vice […]
Vyatta, a tiny (stealthy, in the words of CNN) tech startup, have released the first beta of the open source routing software XORP, or eXtensible Open Routing Platform, with which it hopes to take on the near-ubiquitous Cisco systems. In contrast to most other offerings, the software can run on bog-standard x86 architecture, one of […]
… will be held in Belfast on Thursday March 16th. The event, aimed at business managers, IT execs and anyone interested, will focus on the economic and competetive benefits of FOSS in the public and private sectors and boasts Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman as keynote speakers. It runs from a civilised 10:00am to 5:30pm […]
Martin Brampton, over at Silicon.com, has called on the UK government to embrace more enthusiastically not only the fruits of the open source community, but also the ideas driving it.
The GNOME desktop is due for a new iteration (2.14) come the 15th of March, boasting “noticeable speedups” and better administrator control. The release is aimed squarely at the corporate desktop, with facilities that make it easier for admins working with large numbers of users to control their privileges.
They’ve also teamed up with KDE, […]
Financial services firm E-Trade Financial are lucky enough to have Lee Thompson as their architecture manager. In an interview at eWeek he explains how his company now saves millions of dollars annually after switching from Sun Solaris-based servers to IBM Linux systems. Steven Vaughan Nicholls, also at eWeek asks what we can learn - particularly […]
South African open sourcerer and cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth appears to have set off a number of rumours after letting slip that Google has developed its own version of the Ubuntu distro - Goobuntu - in an interview for SA’s Business Day. The Register picked up on that yesterday, but not everyone bought it, with Daily […]
Head teachers from around the country are to visit a school in East Anglia that managed to build a computer suite for just £1,000 through the prodigious use of open source software and Linux.
CNet is reporting comments by Sir Robin Jacob, an appeals court judge specialising in IP law, critical of software patents and asking for “evidence” of their necessity. In the comments made at The Society for Computers and Law, m’lud was also critical of the US’s overbroad stance on patents…
“The United States takes the view that […]
From Silicon Republic:
More than two out of five Irish organisations will use some form of open source software (OSS) in 2006, a report claims.
According to estimates from the Dublin-based technology research firm iReach, more than 40pc of Irish organisations across a range of industry sectors will implement OSS in their business this year.
iReach […]
The Computer and Communications Industry Association, a body committed to “Open Markets, Open Systems, Open Networks, and Full, Fair and Open Competition” according to their website, has called on ECMA to reject Microsoft’s Open XML formats on the grounds that it “does not meet basic principles of openness.”
The tech media (and certain savvy others) is abuzz with the release of the guidelines for the upcoming GPL revision which will bring in v3.0 of the licence. ZDNet is all over it, as is eWeek, The Reg, TechNewsWorld and Corante.
This is from India’s Financial Express, in a pleasingly detailed overview at the history of […]
Oz daily The Age invites MS to “move over” whilst talking up challengers such as open source and Google. There’s a large picture of Tux on the page, but it falls into that same old trap of going through five long paragraphs about Microsoft before mentioning the alternatives
The International Olympic Committee is said to be […]
Paris has announced details of a test migration to Linux as part of its push to use more open source software. This is from the Tech World article linked above:
Earlier this year, volunteers among the city’s 46,000 staff were invited to download and install open-source software, including the Firefox browser and Open Office.org. Now, the […]
eWeek is reporting that Microsoft is asking the US government to weigh in on its side against the EU over the anti-trust suit, on the grounds that it could have implications for other companies attempting to keep trade secrets out of view of the public.
Birimingham City Council’s forty libraries are due to have all of their computers moved to Linux and will be equipped with the GNOME desktop environment, Firefox and OpenOffice.org, amongst other software. GNOME was settled upon above KDE, Mac and Windows after a survey of users determined that it was the preferred environment for users. Hopefully […]
Everybody’s talking about it, but what is it actually like? LXer has some thoughts.
A major department of the French government, the Direction Generale des Impots which oversees tax collection in France’s cities and regions, have announced that they are to migrate 80,000 desktops from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice. The time-cost of the move is expected to be about three man-years, with a cost of just €200,000, compared to […]
Red Hat has made a few announcements recently regarding its future plans and some of the things it would like from the open source community, in return for the manpower it’s currently throwing OSSwards.