Open Source Software News

Cisco is going to be finding out, the hard way, that open source isn't the same thing as free software.

Adobe Systems on Wednesday is taking the Linux version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime product out of beta, and bringing it up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac users.

Movial has joined the Khronos Group, and released an interesting "media engine" under the LGPL.

December 17, 2008 Novell Inc. has alerted customers and partners that it is canceling its annual BrainShare conference, which was to have been held in Salt Lake City in March, because of would-be attendees' ...

There are so many reasons why having a Linux distribution on a usb drive can come in handy.

Novell's openSUSE project is becoming more open, as a new release due out Thursday includes licensing changes that make it easier to redistribute the Linux operating system, and a build service that will ...

Source: 3 News The blogger who leaked tracks from Guns N' Roses' forthcoming Chinese Democracy album has pleaded guilty to violating copyright laws.

A dedicated Chat Room for Sun Microsystems, Inc. has been created at STOCKWIRE.com to discuss this news event.

Palamida, a vendor that sells software and services around open-source software security and legal compliance, has named 25 open-source projects companies should not hesitate to use.

Cisco Systems is "a strong supporter of open source software" and believes it is "substantially in compliance" with the provisions of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License .

Tavis Ormandy reported a local DoS and potential privilege escalation in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects implementation.

"As desktop Linux becomes ever more professional, and with Microsoft still a year away from shipping its new Vista version of Windows, could now be the time to go open-source on the desktop? Of course, ...

Novell today announced new executive appointments to strengthen the company's focus on cross-platform solutions and the rapidly growing market opportunities for SUSE Linux Enterprise.

One of the keepers of the Ubuntu software respositories has proposed a mainstream inclusion of Wine with Ubuntu.

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"Mono is one of the most controversial projects in the Linux world. And, whether one likes it or not, it is becoming incredibly important as more and more applications on the Gnome desktop are written with ...

The Software Freedom Law Center has filed another GPL lawsuit, and for the first time on behalf of the Free Software Foundation .

It's been a while since we ordered nettops for work and I wanted to provide an update.

The ins and outs of disk maintenance - what we all should know and DO. Here's a hypothetical situation for you to think about.

Nearly 50% of IT Shops to Skip Windows Vista [December 11, 2008] A new survey finds lower-than-expected Vista deployments, while anticipation for Windows 7 builds.