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Novell Inc. last week began shipping a desktop version of Linux that is designed for business users and comes with a bundled set of open-source applications as well as technical support, training and consulting options.

LinuxQuestions.org recently interviewed Red Hat Vice President of Open Source Affairs and former CTO Michael Tiemann. The interview covers who Red Hat thinks are its biggest competitors, their thoughts on the desktop and home user Linux markets, the recent Netscape acquisition and his thoughts on some of the recent Open Source litigation.

A former Microsoft executive who helped shape the company's initial response to Linux has joined a company selling open-source media software.

Mainstream media are eating up Firefox's success.

Speaking on the eve of Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo, which begins in Sydney today, [Gartner research vice-president Bob Hayward] said 2005 would be an "interesting" year for Linux on the desktop.

Most of the content has appeared here in one form or another, however, for the general population this includes a fair amount of detail on the history and goals of Mozilla and the FireFox browser vis a vis the Internet Explorer.

While open-source software is new to the Middle Kingdom, Beijing is looking to change that. Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik explains why.

South African steel pipe and fitting merchant AIG Sales previously used a Dos-based accounting and inventory system to run its business. But a growing customer base and a need to trade electronically with customers meant the company needed to upgrade its systems. After evaluating the options, Phillips says AIG chose to work with Sage Line 500 on Linux, configured, installed and supported by Sage Enterprise Solutions authorised business partner, Unisource.

BEA Systems today claimed "significant milestones" in its open source efforts including code releases, updated tools and additional support for its Apache Beehive web applications and services development platform.

The Knoppix LiveCD GNU/Linux distribution is a valuable tool for such tasks as Web browsing, system administration, enthusiast experimentation and tinkering, and free software advocacy. "Knoppix Hacks," written by Kyle Rankin and published by O'Reilly, is a companion book to Knoppix that includes a CD of Knoppix 3.4 2004-05-17. It's a fine complement to a useful distribution.

When Adam Doxtater first contacted me about reviewing TransGaming Technologies Cedega 4.1.1 , I was quite pleased. I'd never used WineX before, and I had many old Windows games I wanted to be able to play on Linux. I keep a Windows 2000 Professional partition around so that I can play the games I somehow got addicted to (Diablo II, namely). I'm sad to say I won't be getting rid of Windows anytime soon, but Cedega is a gift from above.

Sun Microsystems plans to announce a free version of its Solaris operating system Monday, taking a page that Red Hat tore from its playbook in 2003.

SCO and BASIS Participate in Co-Marketing Program to Provide Joint Software Solutions for Customers

Amazing collection of games available to JDS Linux

Tom has reviewed the Novell Linux Desktop, a new desktop for enterprise customers.

The abrupt resignation of Novell Vice Chairman Chris Stone this month may have a negative impact on the company's relationships with the open-source and Linux communities.

This is the final release of 2004 and is the culmination of the work of each of our developers. The main focus for this release was fixing bugs in previous releases and making the release tools more robust and easier to use.

Here at NewsForge, we have explored "What to do if you're involved in a code theft dispute." In that article, we made the assumption that the involved parties are ethical and professional. In this story, we'll examine a specific and well-documented situation in which unfounded accusations were leveled against a free software project, describe the tactics used by such assailants, and explain how to successfully deflect these attacks and diffuse the situation.

Red Hat last week released Fedora Core 3, the latest version of its cutting-edge Linux distribution, including a redesigned version of Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux). While the software is aimed at developers and enthusiasts, it is seen as a testing ground for technologies that can later be built into the enterprise distribution, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). SE Linux is a case in point: Red Hat and other SE Linux developers have used the feedback from the version included in Fedora Core 2 to make the system more usable in the real world.

In the near future, what trends can we anticipate within the software sector? It seems that you can’t read the table of contents in a technology-related trade magazine these days and not find an article about the growing open-source software phenomenon. So why is there a for-profit interest in a topic that’s most often associated with the word FREE?