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Partnership with Japan's Leading Open Source Technology Integrator Further Extends JBoss Middleware into Japanese Market

Our audio expert checks in with some of the core Linux audio projects to see what's new.

Gael Duval loses his job after disappointing financial quarter; exec plans to start again with open-source software.

"We expect customers to have a mixture of new prodcuts and older products in their working enviroment," said Alan Yates, general manager for Microsoft Office Information Worker Product Management Group. "Customers can upgrade at their own pace according to their own decisions."

The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the second beta release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch.

Dapper Drake, the next Ubuntu release, is going to be different, say the developers working on the release. So different, in fact, that Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has proposed a six-week delay for final polishing on the distribution that has captured the hearts of new and expert Linux users alike. Shuttleworth and the rest of the developer community surrounding Ubuntu call Dapper the first enterprise-level release.

Foreword: This technical article introduces initramfs, a Linux 2.6 feature that enables an initial root filesystem and init program to reside in the kernel's memory cache, rather than on a ramdisk, as with initrd filesystems. Compared to initrd, intramfs can increase boot-time flexibility, memory efficiency, and simplicity, the author says.

Did you know that you can load in your browser an old map showing the operations of General Washington in 1776-77, or the 1927 handmade sketch of the first negative feedback amplifier? These Web pages are in a highly compressed image format called DjVu that's highly suitable for archival material. Here's how you can start enjoying DjVu.

Educators and developers will gather at the West Africa Developer Roadshow in Ghana later this year to collaborate on "Education-out-of-the-box", a software collection that is aimed at helping people use FOSS in the educational arena.

Eben Moglen, the legal counsel of the FSF, claims that free software is 'an immense pile of golden eggs' — and companies need to take care of the geese that lay them. Free software lawyer Eben Moglen has denied that free software is incompatible with capitalism, a claim that has been made by various companies, including Microsoft and SCO.

Evolution-Data Optimized (EVDO) is a wireless broadband service that offers throughput of up to a theoretical maximum of 2.4Mbps. Verizon's service, which provides the best EVDO coverage in the US can work with Linux with a little bit of tweaking.

Heat, dust, humidity and irregular power supplies take their toll on computers in Africa. A group from Nigeria working together with a UK firm, however, are hoping their solar-powered, solid-state PC will make computers more accessible and reliable for users in the developing world.

The Linux vendor has sweeping plans to simplify virtualization deployment for its customers on its RHEL platform.

'I live in a world where software had freed me,' says Eben Moglen, explaining his commitment to software freedom

The days are over when Microsoft could rely on being the only software platform in town. When Quocirca sifted through 8000 IT professionals’ responses to an online questionnaire last year, the UK consultancy discovered deep unease with Microsoft’s Windows operating system. In some respondents Microsoft inspired a near-psychotic depth of loathing.

The Fedora distribution is one of the most widely used GNU/Linux distributions. Although non-users sometimes dismiss it as too mainstream to be of interest, those familiar with it appreciate that it uses only free software and showcases the latest programs. Fedora Core 5 (FC5) is slated for release next week. .

Races SuSE to slice the penguin

Opinion: Dell is very unlikely to ever support a desktop Linux until there's either a clear winner, or there's enough in common among the major popular distributions that Dell can support all of them without undue effort. (DesktopLinux)

PRIMERGY BX630 Featuring AMD Opteron Processors Offers Lower Power Consumption, Scales From 2 to 8 Processors

SCO now has its own SCOServer twist on the LAMP stack. (Linux-Watch)