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UK government departments moved a step closer to using open-source operating systems such as Linux after a study found that they were "viable" products.

Mozilla 1.0 release candidate has been released.

How to replace your Zaurus' original ROM with OpenZaurus.

Novell recently opened a limited beta of SUSE Linux Professional 9.2, and I've been using it for my work/production machine ever since I got my hands on the five-CD download. No, using a beta release of an operating system as your production system is generally not a good idea. Yes, there are bugs, as expected in beta software. There are also improvements and refinements, as is also to be expected. But overall, well, read on and see.

John Horn, the CEO of Independence, Mo.-based Interstate Software, talked with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about how certain Web development tools that run on Windows could be part of an unorthodox step for companies that are interested in the idea of moving from a proprietary database environment to an open one.

So I've had one of those usb keys for nearly a year now and what's on it? Nothing... so I decided to install Linux on it. 256MB should be more than enough and I would be able to boot it anywhere, use it for troubleshooting and impress my friends and co-workers.

Tough economic times in Germany have made Linux and other open source software products appear tantalizing to local businesses. Yet many remain hesitant to dump their Microsoft Corp. software completely, if for no other reasons than it performs relatively well, and nearly everyone in corporate Germany uses it. That was the general impression from speakers delivering presentations Tuesday at the LinuxWorld conference in Frankfurt.

This is the second article in a two-part series on “Why Linux Matters???”

Dell became the last of the four major server sellers to fully support Novell's SuSE Linux, announcing on Wednesday a partnership that puts low price front and center.

Stuart Cohen, the chief executive officer of OSDL, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that the organisation is currently working on an open-source database which could be used by companies or patent employees to check for prior art -- whether a patent application contains original work, or has already been worked on in the open-source community. But campaigners against software patents said this would have little impact and does not tackle the essential issue that patents stifle innovation.

The countdown to Open Source Solaris has officially begun. Sun execs confirm the upcoming launch date for Nov. 15, when execs will outline their plans to "Open Source" Solaris. Open Enterprise Trends gets the latest insights from Jack O'Brien, Sun's Group Manager, x86 and Operating Systems, who speaks to us about Sun's goals for a Solaris Open Source community, and what it has learned to do (and not do) from other commercial-turned Open Source projects from such firms as IBM, BEA and others.

The company says SuSE Linux Professional will become more of a community desktop, while its upcoming Novell Linux Desktop will target business users.

Here is the current link to today's "executive memo" referenced in earlier news items.

Less than a week after Red Hat discontinued update services for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 customers who do not renew their subscriptions, Finnish Linux vendor Lineox has announced unified security and bug fix update services for its Linux operating system that is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code.

It has become fashionable to describe copyright, patents, and trademarks as "intellectual property." This fashion did not arise by accident -- the term systematically distorts and confuses these issues. Anyone wishing to think clearly about any of these laws would do well to resist it.

A memo signed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has piled into the Linux operating system, claiming that users adopting it will be vulnerable to security breaches.

In future the German Federal Railways intend to rely more heavily on Linux as a server operating system. In line with the announcement made in May, changeovers with respect to a number of applications were being undertaken at present, an official statement by the company read. To the degree that this was technically and economically feasible, new and productive IT systems were accordingly to run on Linux.

After testing Microsoft products in 300 of the schools, the regional Education Ministry [of West Bengal in northeast India] said it decided to instead install open-source software on 10,000 new computers, the first phase of an even bigger project.

Asterisk, the open-source application that provides the functionality of a large telephone switch, can now run over a LocustWorld mesh network

As Bart Decrem (Mozilla Foundation spokeperson) is doing a press tour in Europe with Mozilla Europe, press coverage is getting quite amazing. I tried to gather all the links I could to European articles. You'll find articles from UK, The Netherlands, Belgium and France. Bart will continue his trip in France tomorrow and then Germany and UK again. We're just half way in this press tour and the response is already awesome! The Register, Reuters, ZDNet.be, you name it. French Google News home page even has a Firefox logo!