The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group have announced today that they are combining their resources to form the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux.
The consortium will allow them to unify and dedicate more of their resources and services …
read moreFor those of you who are interested in the OpenMoko, you should be pleased to know that Sean Moss-Pultz has posted the release schedule today on its community mailing list. If you haven't heard about the OpenMoko yet, it is an open source, Linux-based FIC Neo1973 Smartphone.
The schedule is …
read moreIn an recent interview with Computerworld at the linux.conf.au conference, Linus Torvalds gave his thoughts on Windows Vista. Here are a few quick excerpts:
read moreI don't actually think that something like Vista will change how people work that much. I think it, to some degree, has been over-hyped …
In a twist of irony, it seems that while Cisco and Apple battle each other over the iPhone trademark, a new detail has emerged. Cisco has been accused of violating the GPL within the same product.
According to Armijn Hemel, a member of the GPL Violations Project, Cisco has failed …
read moreDamn Small Linux 3.2 has been released. In case you have never heard of it, it is a fast and light weight GNU/Linux distribution that weighs in at 50MB. It is pretty convenient to carry around with you on a thumb drive.
If you are interested in finding …
read moreFrom the topic of this post it is safe to assume that I dislike HTML emails and I am fairly sure that I am not the only one. I am one of those people who are quite content with sitting back and reading my email in plain text via my …
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