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main : News : Qualcomm gives Eudora a Mozilla makeover
Posted: ( Sat 21st Oct 2006 05:44:33[PM] UTC )
Telecommunications technology company Qualcomm is rebuilding its Eudora e-mail program using open-source Thunderbird software from the Mozilla Foundation.

main : News : Sun's plan for open-source chips bears fruit
Posted: ( Sat 21st Oct 2006 05:44:33[PM] UTC )
A start-up called Simply RISC has built a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T1, an indication of interest in Sun's plan to encourage others to adopt and modify open-source designs for the processor.

main : Howtos : HOWTO: Pick an open source license
Posted: ( Sat 1st Jul 2006 05:26:07[PM] UTC )
You've made the decision to release your code as "open source". Ok, what does that mean, what is an open source license, and how do you pick the right one?

main : News : Microsoft takes on net nasties
Posted: ( Wed 14th Jun 2006 04:24:22[PM] UTC )
Allchin says Ballmer, the world's 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.

main : News : Financial firm trades in OpenView for open source
Posted: ( Sun 27th Nov 2005 01:43:02[AM] UTC )
Five years ago Yodlee Inc. purchased a proprietary application to monitor its core application and network infrastructure. Then the troubles began. The Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of risk management applications implemented Hewlett-Packard's OpenView product to monitor its own IT infrastructure, but instead of a smooth, carefree process, the company quickly realized several unforeseen challenges on the radar screen.

main : Opinions : Should RISC OS be open sourced?
Posted: ( Sun 27th Nov 2005 01:40:32[AM] UTC )
The debate over whether or not RISC OS should be open sourced took another turn this week when Peter Naulls argued that "certain parts" of the OS could be released under an open source licence.

main : Articles : A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels
Posted: ( Sun 27th Nov 2005 01:37:22[AM] UTC )
I spend most of my time teaching classes on Solaris internals, device drivers, and kernel crash dump analysis and debugging. When explaining to classes how various subsystems are implemented in Solaris, students often ask, "How does it work in Linux?" or, "In FreeBSD, it works like this, how about Solaris?" This article examines three of the basic subsystems of the kernel and compares implementation between Solaris 10, Linux 2.6, and FreeBSD 5.3.

main : Opinions : The economics of commercial open source
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:12:20[AM] UTC )
The goal of the series is to expose a trend in open source that is leading to the creation of a new breed of "effective" monopolies by commercial open source companies.

main : News : Open-source leader steps aside at industry group
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:02:35[AM] UTC )
The Open Source Initiative says that it has reorganized in an effort to bring more structure to the open-source software movement and that co-founder Eric Raymond is stepping down from his position as president.

main : News : Speed improvements expected in KDE 4
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:02:34[AM] UTC )
KDE 4, the next major version of the Linux desktop KDE, is likely to start up and run faster due to changes that have been made to Qt, the graphical framework that KDE is built on.

main : Articles : An open-source shot in the arm?
Posted: ( Mon 28th Jun 2004 04:20:24[PM] UTC )
Medicine: The open-source model is a good way to produce software, as the example of Linux shows. Could the same collaborative approach now revitalise medical research too?

main : News : Open-source companies see profit aplenty
Posted: ( Thu 17th Jun 2004 04:12:41[PM] UTC )
It's easy to make money giving away software--just don't give away too much of it.

SkyOS : News : SkyOS 5.0 Beta
Posted: ( Mon 12th Apr 2004 06:13:38[PM] UTC )
SkyOS is a free operating system written from scratch for the x86 architecture. It has all of the features desired in a modern operating system. Version 5.0 is now available for distribution to beta testers. Users may download previous versions for free.

main : Articles : An article about Jabber
Posted: ( Thu 23rd Jan 2003 06:43:12[AM] UTC )
The author of centericq, a popular instant messaging solution for *NIX, wrote an article about his first experience with Jabber as a developer.

main : News : Athene 1.1 released!
Posted: ( Mon 6th Aug 2001 09:53:58[PM] UTC )
Rocklyte Systems has released the first official (non-beta) release of Athene, a multi-platform operating system that's free to non-commercial users.