Linux on iPhones
Dec 01, 2008A Linux Kernel 2.6 runs on Apple's iPhones (first and second generation) and the iPod Touch (first generation).
more »New Case Against Microsoft Brought To European Commission
Dec 01, 2008The Dutch software dealer HW Trading has proffered a complaint concerning Microsoft's marketing practices to the European Trade Commission. The reason: Microsoft has for years been selling its products at a higher price in Europe than it does in America.
more »Seven Deadliest Linux Commands
Nov 21, 2008In a TechSource Blog blog, Philippine technology student Jun Auza has assembled a list of the seven deadliest Linux commands, which his readers promptly augmented.
more »It's Final: SCO Loses, Novell Wins
Nov 21, 2008After five years of litigation between SCO and Novell, the final judgment from the U.S. District Court in Utah is that the rights to Unix belong to Novell. SCO, which is already financially stressed, owes Novell around 2.5 million dollars.
more »Yellow Dog Linux for Playstation and Apple
Nov 21, 2008Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is known for running on Playstation 3 and Apple G4s and G5s. Its manufacturer, Fixstars, has now released version 6.1.
more »Sheep-Throwing Marsupial in the "Yo Frankie" Game
Nov 20, 2008If you've ordered the DVD, you're probably already busy throwing sheep and beating up rats in a lovely virtual countryside.
more »Gartner: Open Source Becoming Pervasive Yet Lacking Governance
Nov 19, 2008Market research firm Gartner discovered that most of the almost 300 organizations it surveyed employed Open Source software in one way or another, but that a general license enforcement policy was missing.
more »High Availability: Linbit Merges DRBD+ with DRDB into Open Source
Nov 18, 2008Austrian company Linbit has announced that it is merging its DRBD+ commercial high availability (HA) software with the open source version DRBD to make a free software solution.
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