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Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he will transition out of a day-to-day role at the company he co-founded to spend more time on global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mark Lord reported a problem with the upcoming 2.6.17 kernel being unable to access www.everymac.com. He detailed a series of tests that isolated the problem down to a recent changeset titled, "set default max buffers from memory pool size", which goes on to explain, [...]

Open source middleware juggernaut JBoss, now part of Linux distributor Red Hat, is hosting its second annual--and perhaps final--JBoss World customer and partner event in Las Vegas, coinciding with the 10-millionth download of its JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS). Having secured its position in the middleware space and been acquired by financially secure Red Hat, now JBoss is pumped to move out from the middle into the systems management space and to establish, through the Seam project, itself as the framework for Web 2.0 applications.

IBM introduced a fully integrated and scalable data warehouse solution for Linux that combines software, server, and storage resources to maximize business intelligence and information management performance for enterprises.

Thousands of developer hours behind Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) could make it close to impossible for the Ubuntu operating system to grab the third spot in the Linux server market.

OpenLab International has released the latest iteration of its education-cum-general-desktop Linux distribution, OpenLab. Richard Frank asks chief software architect, AJ Venter, what he has been brewing.

Nexdome(R) Dragonfly from Nexvision Offers Small Form Factor, Plug-and-Play Capability and a Scalable Solution for Global Video Surveillance

Help is easy and effective, if paid heed to. Experts advise replacing Internet Explorer with a more secure web browser like Firefox which is geared towards security and comes with a range of useful features missing from Internet Explorer. For example, Firefox will not allow websites to install software (such as spyware) behind your back.

African instant messaging server JabberAfrica.org will be closing down at the end of June, three years after first opening the service.

Turbolinux Advances Linux Market Leadership Position in China; Leading Linux Distributor Launches Platform across Qingzang Railway System and Deploys Operating Systems for China Mobile Wireless Music Portal

Today's People Behind KDE interview is with the person who made the Debian package manager for KDE Adept. KDE's man at the Czech Red Hat office also spends his free time distracting his fellow KDE developers with games of Wesnoth and Freeciv.

Software industry veteran joins company as founding engineer is elected to board of Software Freedom Conservancy

As it solidifies its position as a division of Red Hat, JBoss moves ahead with new projects aimed at broadening its position in the enterprise.

To begin with we talk to Tomas Matejicek, the founder and maintainer of SLAX, a LiveCD based from Slackware.

There is a worrying dimension to the uptake of technology in South Africa. As sub-Saharan Africa's wealthiest and most technologically advanced country, South Africa is a good indicator of how Africa is embracing computing and other technologies, says Jarred Cinman, product director at Cambrient.

But beyond the tangibles like open source code it was the community that made a convert of [CIO Curtis] Edge. Behind all the open code, it was the forums and flexibility that were the driving forces he believes breeds better developers than those that toil away with proprietary code.

OSDir has some great shots of the upcoming OpenLab 4.1 in the OpenLab 4.1 Alpha 1 Screenshot Tour.

Most reviewers have found OpenSUSE 10.1 to be a great Linux distribution, except, unfortunately, for its broken package manager. This system update program was another story entirely. Now, though, SUSE has released a patch that makes life a lot easier for SUSE users.

Marking the half-way point of the year-long public consultation process for redrafting Free Software's cornerstone licence, the third international GPLv3 conference will host experts from Europe and from around the world.

When you are learning a foreign language, you need all the help you can get. Besides applications like jVLT, jMemorize, and StarDict, there are other tools that are not designed specifically for language learning, but they can make the learning process more efficient and fun. All you have to do is to think creatively.