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Agreement With China Standard Software Company Calls for Joint Technical, Marketing and Support Efforts to Accelerate Adoption of Linux

Since the fourth quarter of 2004, Firefox usage has more than doubled among business professionals, according to management consultants Janco Associates Inc. It predicts the open-source browser will reach up to 25% of the market over the next quarter.

The Firefox browser is used by more than 10 percent of business professionals, and that number could more than double by the end of the first half of the year, a management consulting company said Tuesday.

Welcome to this year's 17th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. According to analyst house IDC, Free Software is gaining ground in Europe, as one third of mid-to-large sized companies in Europe report significant use of a Free Software database management system. The leadership team had its first meeting whilst this issue was being prepared.

As organizations build out their SOAs, open source software is increasingly seen as a viable alternative to commercial product suites. But a lack of integrated open source stacks and a slew of misconceptions still impede widespread adoption.

Chris Kennedy, ivtv driver developer and Jarod Wilson, author of the Fedora MythTV How-To will be our guests

Shortly after announcing the merger of Mandrakesoft and Conectiva into Mandriva, the newly combined company released a transitional "limited edition" GNU/Linux distribution to bridge the gap between the two parent distributions. Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 may look a little different, but it's the same great Mandrakelinux desktop distribution that you're used to.

The OSI risks alienating vendors by pursuing strict open-source licensing requirements.

This week we have the pleasure of interviewing Frank Warmerdam. Frank is well known in the Open Source GIS Community for his GDAL (Generic Data Access Library)/OGR library which provides seamless access to a wide range of vector and raster GIS data formats. GDAL/OGR is used in virtually all of the popular Open Source GIS applications out there - including of course QGIS

"The combination of Linux and identity is a powerful one," Messman told 6,000 attendees at this year's BrainShare conference. "Businesses are turning to Linux because it helps them address their priorities."

On the scene of Canada's largest computer show for 2005.

In addition to the OSDir Ubuntu 5.04 screen shots posted at ubuntulinux.org, international desktop screen shots are now availble. Languages include Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Enjoy!

Red Hat Inc, a leading provider of open source solutions for enterprises, expects more Malaysian companies to subscribe to its service with the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 4.

This article will show how you can create Java classes from scratch using the Eclipse ASTParser.

"RHEL 4.0 was quite nice and a great update for enterprise Red Hat users. I even have an FC3 box around that I use to keep myself up to speed on what is certainly a popular distribution for both new Linux users and Red Hat Linux refugees. So let's look at the latest and greatest from Fedora, Fedora Core 4 Test 2..."

There is a better way to browse the internet than with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. That's what the news about the Web browser Firefox would have you believe. The upstart, open-source browser has even rekindled talk of a "browser war", which practically no one has spoken of since the old days of Internet Explorer versus Netscape.

Mozilla's Firefox browser includes a built-in capability (Live Bookmarks) for working with news feeds. However, there are numerous news reading extensions available that provide a full range of additional capabilities, from "just the basics" to options for managing and using collections of news feeds.

More than 150 developers of the recently released Linux distribution Ubuntu are in Sydney working on storming the desktop market.

The 'Hoary Hedgehog' release of Ubuntu Linux is here, and the Free Agent likes what he sees.

Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, is set to release a new report which will say that schools could save significant sums by switching to open source software, eGov monitor can report.