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Free app discovers, analyzes open source software —
Jul. 16, 2007 —
OpenLogic on July 11 announced a free tool said to enable the tracking and analysis of thousands of versions of open source software across more than 800 application packages. The tool enables administrators to set and maintain effective software policies in mixed Linux, Windows, and Solaris desktop environments, ...
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OLPC official challenges Michael Dell —
Jul. 14, 2007 —
 Walter Bender, the One Laptop Per Child program's director of software, told DesktopLinux.com on July 13 that he invites Dell Computer founder and CEO Michael Dell to help figure out how to better use 125 million computers that are discarded annually because they are archaic. ...
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Intel joins One Laptop Per Child initiative —
Jul. 13, 2007 —
 The OLPC got a major boost today with the announcement that Intel has joined the organization and will serve on its board of directors. No doubt, Intel wouldn't mind seeing the OLPC's low-cost Linux laptop's AMD Geode processor replaced by one of its own chips. ...
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Linux Professional Institute to host events at LinuxWorld —
Jul. 13, 2007 —
For the third consecutive year, the Linux Professional Institute will provide discounted certification testing during LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Aug. 6 through 9, 2007, at the Moscone Center. Toronto-based LPI is the official certification sponsor of LWCE, offering a standardized, multi-national program to certify professional expertise in ...
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Apple takes a shine to CUPS —
Jul. 13, 2007 —
Chances are if you print anything from a Mac, Linux, or Unix system, you're using the Common Unix Printing System, or CUPS. Now, in a surprising development, Michael R. Sweet, CUPS' creator, revealed on CUPS' Web site that Apple has bought CUPS' source code and other intellectual property.
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Linux to gain 'completely fair scheduler' —
Jul. 12, 2007 —
The next release of the Linux kernel will apparently gain an all-new scheduler said to deliver better desktop scheduling. Ingo Molnar's CFS ("completely fair scheduler") implements a fair scheduling approach long advocated by Con "Conman" Kolivas, a practicing Australian medical doctor specializing in anaesthesia. ...
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Dell fixes Ubuntu laptop pricing —
Jul. 12, 2007 —
Dell Ubuntu Linux buyers were recently outraged when a price comparison between identical Inspiron 1420 laptops showed that instead of the Ubuntu system being cheaper, it actually ended up costing $225 more than the same laptop with Vista Home Basic Edition. ...
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Linspire releases Open XML translator —
Jul. 12, 2007 —
 Linux vendor Linspire on July 11 said that the new Open XML translator is now available for use in its latest Freespire and Linspire distributions. ...
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Ultralight MEPIS spinoff goes gold —
Jul. 11, 2007 —
 MEPIS on July 9 announced the "Spartacus" release of antiX, a community-built, ultralight derivative of the MEPIS Linux distribution. AntiX (pronounced "Antics") is the personal project of MEPIS community member "anticapitalista," who engineered it as a free version of MEPIS aimed at old 32-bit PC hardware. ...
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CentOS ships new live CD —
Jul. 11, 2007 —
 The CentOS development team today released a live CD version of its most recent stable edition, CentOS 5.0. The distro, described as a "100 percent-compatible" rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is aimed at i386 machines and features the GNOME desktop and a 2.6.18 kernel. ...
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Tux Paint gets a face lift —
Jul. 11, 2007 —
 Five years after the debut of its popular open-source drawing program for children, New Breed Software announced the release of Tux Paint 0.9.17. ...
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Michael Dell: Linux coming to SMBs, Europe soon —
Jul. 11, 2007 —
Dell plans on expanding the reach of its factory-installed Linux PCs to include small and midsize businesses and Europe, Michael Dell, the company's founder and CEO, said at a July 10 event in New York. ...
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Gentoo staging big UK conference July 14 —
Jul. 06, 2007 —
 The Gentoo Linux project team will host its UK 2007 community conference on Saturday, July 14, at University College London. A wide range of topics will be covered, from clustering to KDE, a project spokesperson said on the distro Web site. ...
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KDE developers meet, plan and program —
Jul. 06, 2007 —
With KDE 4 due out in the fourth quarter of 2007, the KDE developers had their work cut out for themselves when they met in Glasgow, Scotland, for their annual worldwide meeting, aKademy 2007. ...
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KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 features new shell —
Jul. 05, 2007 —
 The KDE development team, gathered at the aKademy event in Glasgow, Scotland on July 4 announced the immediate availability of the second alpha release of the K Desktop Environment v. 4.0. The eight-day-long aKademy continues through July 7 at the University of Strathclyde. ...
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Damn Small Linux 3.4 live CD goes gold —
Jul. 03, 2007 —
 The Damn Small Linux (DSL) team today released DSL 3.4, a live CD featuring a 2.4.26 kernel and lightweight Fluxbox window manager. "I took a little side trip while working on 4.0 to make a much asked-for version of DSL," ...
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Checking out SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 —
Jul. 03, 2007 —
 Review -- New service packs for operating systems usually offer modest performance and feature benefits. But sometimes a service pack upgrade comes along that really makes a difference, and SUSE Linux 10 SP1 is exactly ...
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Red Hat, Microsoft talk Tux —
Jul. 03, 2007 —
We knew that last year Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik held talks with Microsoft concerning a patent deal. Once Microsoft and Novell signed an agreement with Novell, those talks were history. In fact, Red Hat made a point of spitting on the Microsoft/Novell deal. ...
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Red Hat wants to talk interoperability with MS —
Jul. 03, 2007 —
Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front. ...
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Slackware Linux 12.0 goes gold —
Jul. 03, 2007 —
 The Slackware Linux team this week released stable v12.0 of its Linux distribution. Slackware Linux v12.0 boasts a 2.6.21.5 kernel, a KDE 4.5.6 default desktop environment, the latest modular X11 Window System, and numerous other advanced features. ...
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Microsoft's Open XML newspeak —
Jul. 02, 2007 —
Opinion -- One of the most chilling concepts of George Orwell's novel "1984" is "Newspeak." In Newspeak, the language is constantly being cropped of words that might lead to "thoughtcrimes." If you control the language, the logic goes, you control what people ...
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Massachusetts endorses Open XML —
Jul. 02, 2007 —
Massachusetts has done a 180-degree turn and decided to support Microsoft's Office Open XML format in addition to the OASIS Open Document Format. The commonwealth added Microsoft's format, also known as Ecma-376 or Open XML, to the list of approved standards in the Massachusetts' ETRM (Enterprise Technical Reference Model), ...
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Linspire to help develop ODF-OpenXML translators —
Jul. 02, 2007 —
Linspire announced today that it will join development efforts to increase the interoperability between the Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML, thus improving the ability of OpenOffice.org users to work with the Office Open XML format. ...
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