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A recent report from Gartner throws some cold water on recent gains Linux has made in desktop PC shipments. The research firms says that many of the Linux-based PCs that are being shipped to emerging markets in Asia and Latin American will end up running pirated versions of Microsoft Windows.

One of the biggest difficulties Linux and open source as a whole faces is standardization. One of the main purposes and selling points of Linux are its openness to endless possibilities and applications. Linux was raised on the principles of adaptability and configurability. How many other operating systems are flexible enough to record television programs on a TiVo, provide internet access through home routers, drive Spirit and Opportunity across the barren Martian terrain, and still be a desktop operating system to boot?

Linux is growing out of Unix's shadow and handling mission-critical tasks on its own. Check out its role at the National Stock Exchange.

The terms ‘free software’ and ‘open source’ are often used interchangeably, but those attending Richard Stallman’s presentation at the Australian Computer Society Victorian branch forum last night were left in no doubt about his view of philosophical difference.

FSMLabs has announced that its hard real-time Linux operating system and development tools now support all Diamond Systems single-board computers. Additionally, the two companies have inked a cross-licensing deal allowing each to sell the other’s technologies and products in bundled form.

Gluecode Software announced this week that it has contributed what it says is the first open-source business process management (BPM) engine to the Apache Software Foundation.

SAN FRANCISCO -- It's not too often that you get up from your chair, and someone like Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang -- who couldn't find a seat previously -- comes over and replaces you. That was emblematic of the first Web 2.0 Conference, staged by O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International and which concluded a three-day run Thursday at the Hotel Nikko. There were stars everywhere you looked.

The granting of patents for software ideas will be the death blow to free software developers, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, Richard M. Stallman, told an audience in Melbourne last night.

Putting bias aside, interested in a frank discussion? Tom Adelstein knows a lot about Sun and sets out here to give the whole story behind Sun and Red Hat's disagreements.

LinuxWorld: The London mayor's IT adviser says that the use of open-source software such as Linux is a pretty low priority for IT managers in local government.

-- OES Will Include the Latest Version of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server, Including Service Pack

"The Standard Edition of Xandros Desktop 2 provides an intuitive graphical environment that works right out of the box and offers unrivaled compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Whether you're at home, school, or at work you'll find just what you need to share files, write a report, surf the Internet, listen to music, play games, or do almost anything else."

The benchmarks show that Windows XP outperforms Linux on the same hardware and the same official drivers from Nvidia. Windows XP simply does a better job at running games on this configuration.

FlameRobin is a database administration tool for Firebird DBMS.

Brief description of AIO implementation for Oracle9iR2(9.2.0.5) on Red Hat Fedora Core 2

Agency CIO and his team have led with open source for over a decade.

Jason Macer never really cared what operating system was running on his servers when the Dallas area businessman's Web hosting resale business peaked with 26 servers last March. But Macer found out that lots of folks did care, and were leaving him because of it. It was not Windows that was the problem, it was SCO. Macer's hosting vendor, EV1 Servers.net, had signed on for SCO's Linux user license. Macer's customers reacted by seeking hosting elsewhere, cutting his business down to just two servers.

Guardian Digital, based in Allendale, New Jersey, is supplying security and productivity applications for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) headquarters. And, according to Guardian Digital spokesperson Nicole Pearson, ISRO made the first contact.

Software company Netline claims its decision to go open source with the latest version of its e-mail server platform has reduced the development time for the new release by a factor of 10.

IBM Corp. has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.