Fedora 14 beta released today, aimed as a tablet operating system
The much anticipated beta of Fedora 14 was released today, with the final code to be ready in November. It included a few features that may surprise you. For one, it lets users opt for a MeeGo look and feel. For another, it supports...
Linux servers, Windows XP desktops: a happy marriage?
The IT folks love Linux. The users know, and therefore love, Windows. Sound like a war? For Wade Stankich, it's more like a happy marriage.He and his team have built an infrastructure that gives everyone their favorite operating...
Open High is a school built entirely on open source
The term "open source" is being stretched pretty broad these days. Even the Tea Party wants a piece of it. But when a Utah high school named itself Open High, it deserved the moniker. Not only does the school rely heavily on open...
Google Code wants to become a bigger source forge
Google Code hosts more than 250,000 open source projects but until last week, only allowed projects that used a limited number of licenses. But on Friday, Google announced it would leave the license discrimination to the folks that...
Burning Man is the proving point for Earth friendly, open source Linux-based cell tower
This has got to be one of the coolest -- ehem, I mean hottest -- open source projects around. It is a solar/wind powered, Linux/VoIP based cell phone network, that works with any GSM phone and costs pennies on the dollar to install...
Red Hat extends support options for enterprises
Red Hat today announced that it will offer enterprises the option to extend their support contracts from seven years to as long as 10 years. These support contracts are available in one-year increments from the time the seven-year...
Linux community finally fixes 6-year-old, critical bug
The Linux kernel folks "silently" pushed out a patch for a critical privilege escalation bug this week. It was for a hole that could allow an attacker to execute code at the root level from any GUI application. The patch took two...
Oracle isn't completely wrong to sue Google over Android
So Oracle wants a piece of Google's action and late Thursday filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Google over Android's use of Java. One thing is clear. There are no victims here. The crux of the issue is that when Google...
Even SAP is using more open source
Yesterday SAP took another step into the open source world by signing on to use the Black Duck Suite. The suite is a collection of tools that helps a company find open source projects. It also confirms that developers are using the...
U.S. military adopts more open source: is that secure enough for you?
The U.S. military and researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are putting their heads together to help the military adopt more open source software. The military wants in on the cost savings, speed and flexibility which...
Firefox lets hackers grab your passwords
Better delete your passwords from Firefox's Password Manager before next week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. That's when Jeremiah Grossman will present a demo showcasing how Javascript can be used to collect passwords...
Open Source hardware advocates want a hard-core license
Within one day of the release of a definition for "open source" hardware, the document has garnered endorsements from 50 people, many of them affiliated with manufacturing businesses. The document is only in its 0.3 draft...
Security expert releases Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis
A security consultant has released a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution specifically designed to help analyze and re-engineer malware. Lenny Zeltser on Thursday released REMnux on Sourceforge and it has already been downloaded nearly...
Zenoss net management tool watches over Cisco UCS
Zenoss has updated its popular open core network monitoring tool to cover Cisco's 1-year-old Unified Computing System (UCS). Zenoss Enterprise 3.0 also added support for NetApp and beefed up its support for VMware. Zenoss is billing...
Red Hat gets closer to releasing Enterprise Linux version 6
Red Hat released the second beta of its Enterprise Linux 6 on Wednesday and declared it on track for an unspecified release date. (I've heard rumors that it's scheduled to be available in October.) A number of features are going to...
Supreme Court ruling dashes hopes that software patents will go away
Free software advocates who despise software patents were hoping that a case pending before the Supreme Court would more-or-less abolish them. But, alas, the much anticipated opinion [PDF] on Bilski v. Kappos that was issued Monday,...
Marten Mickos says open source doesn't have to be fully open
The term "open core" essentially means that the heart of a software project is built on, and remains, open source but added features may not be (particularly a commercial version intended for enterprise use).VC-funded software...
Is the 2010 Mozilla T-shirt worth $75?
Mozilla has announced the winner of its 2010 T-shirt contest, and the five runners-up. The winning shirt was designed by Mozilla community member "foxyboy" and is available only to Mozilla donors, folks that contribute $75 or more to...
Fun with Linux art
I came across a Linux poster that made me laugh. It sent me researching other illustrations of Linux humor and the result is this slideshow.10 great illustrations of Linux humorAs the great sci-fi novelist Robert A. Heinlein once...
Marten Mickos says the cloud won't kill open source
There is a fervent debate going on in the open source community about cloud computing. Will the cloud kill open source? Will multi-tenancy services make cloud providers need to hide the source, as a recent Forbes article suggests?I...
