February
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Feb 24, 2011
SplashTop Linux web OS with Chrome, Bing available for download
Add another offering to the burgeoning netbook OS market. SplashTop Inc. has made available its namesake Linux OS that reportedly makes it quick and easy for consumers to get on the web fast with only browser and instant search preloaded. That’s about it. The company’s claim to fame is its lightweight OS footprint, which features next to [...] read more...
Firefox 4 beta 12 now expected Monday or Tuesday
Developers continue to fire away on new and existing bugs before issuing the first Firefox 4 Release Candidate. To that end, the team now expects beta 12 — likely the last beta — to be available early next week — Monday or Tuesday, top developers said during the daily Mozilla Firefox 4 meeting. We “branched and built [...] read more...
Feb 23, 2011
Banshee vs. Ubuntu Linux on Revenue sharing
It’s not often that open-source projects find themselves at loggerheads over revenue sharing but that’s what happened with Ubuntu Linux and the Banshee music player. Fortunately, it looks like an equitable solution is in the works. read more...
Android: The Open Mobile Choice
If you want real programming freedom on mobile you need to write for Android. Both Apple and Microsoft have made it clear they want to have as little as possible to do with free and open-source software. read more...
Feb 21, 2011
Microsoft mulls changing Windows Phone Marketplace terms to add more open-source licenses
Microsoft officials say they are considering modifying the Windows Phone Application Provider Agreement to add more open-source licenses “in upcoming revisions.” read more...
Open Source Obama
The U.S. government isn’t just using open source, it’s creating it, and even the White House has gotten into the act. read more...
Feb 17, 2011
Community Support Expands for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) project is pleased to announce the release of EPEL 6. read more...
UK government committed to open source
The government coalition of the United Kingdom wants to increase the use of free and open source software by public administrations. "There is commitment from politicians and ministries and they are looking at implementing it at all levels", said Laura Czajkowski, marketing manager at Sirius IT, a UK IT firm specialised in free and open source, in a presentation during the Fosdem open source conference that took place in Brussels, Belgium last Saturday. read more...
Feb 16, 2011
EE: Ministry saves millions by using open source office
The Estonian ministry of the Environment has save millions of Euro over the past ten years by using the open source suite of office application, OpenOffice, says Meelis Merilo, the head of the IT departent at the ministry. read more...
The London Stock Exchange moves to Novell Linux
The LSE is far from the only one stock exchange to switch to Linux. More and more stock exchanges are realizing that when you really need speed, security, and stability, Linux is the operating system you need. read more...
Feb 14, 2011
Open source's emerging opportunity in BI
Accenture's survey of top IT trends shows that open source can be an enabler for all, but especially for analytics. read more...
What Nokia's Windows move means for Open Source
Many of Nokia’s open-source partners aren’t happy with its new buddy-buddy friendship with Microsoft, but they plan on making the best of it. read more...
Feb 10, 2011
WebOS could be a Contender
People don’t notice Debian Linux releases as much as they used to. There’s a reason for that, Debian, despite its close relationship to Ubuntu, is becoming irrelevant. read more...
Debian Linux was important: Will it continue to be?
Calm down folks, I didn’t say Debian Linux hasn’t been important, what I wonder is how long it will stay important? read more...
Feb 09, 2011
IcedRobot launches Android fork to mitigate Oracle-Google war
A group of open source developers have embarked upon a project called IcedRobot that is building a Java virtual machine for Android based on the GPL-based OpenJDK. Yes, they are concerned about the “implications of Oracle winning its lawsuit against Google,” noted IP activist Florian Mueller. IcedRobot is officially an effort to bring the Android API to [...] read more...
Firefox 4 beta 11 released
As promised, the Mozilla team released Firefox 4 beta 11 this afternoon. The open source browser company published a brief report on the 11th beta, which features a new “Do Not Track” privacy feature. “The latest Firefox 4 Beta is now available to download and test,” the post notes. “We’ve continued our work to improve performance and [...] read more...
Feb 07, 2011
Only one-third of agencies pass the Federal Open Technology Report Card
Learn from the Defense Dept. on how your developers can contribute to open source projects and protect your organization read more...
Canonical brings Ubuntu to the OpenStack Cloud
OpenStack seems to be on its way to being the open-source software cloud stack of choice. read more...
Feb 02, 2011
Convirture and Eucalyptus Systems to partner on open-source, cloud management
Clouds are great… if only you could manage them. Now open-source cloud vendors Convirture, and Eucalyptus Systems are joining together to make that happen. read more...
Mozilla releases new Firefox 4 beta for mobile devices
Mozilla developers released another Firefox 4 test version — this time for mobile devices — as they chip away at beta 11. The updated Firefox 4 beta for for Google’s Android and Nokia’s Maemo devices, which was released today, is said to be faster than the native Android browser. It is based on the same code as [...] read more...
