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Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has joined the Open Source Development Labs, becoming the first member of an affiliate program that lets colleges and universities join the multicompany consortium, OSDL said Tuesday. The consortium, which employs Linux founder Linus Torvalds, is attempting to become the "center of gravity," a focal point for development of the open-source operating system.

That's the title of a presentation given by Forrester Research analysts John Rymer and Noel Yuhanna at GigaWorld 2004. This session was attended by fewer than 30 of the approximately 800 GigaWorld attendees, but raised some interesting points, especially about how to compare competing commercial and open source offerings.

In this article, the author reviews three Perl coding books, bringing you summaries of the key information contained in the books and how the new versions have been updated.

Linux aficionados looking to convert their past-time passion into full-time employment may have a new opportunity to do so, following Red Hat’s decision to expand its Australian-based technical support team.

Black Duck Software, an information services company offering IP risk management and mitigation solutions, on Monday announced the immediate commercial availability of its first comprehensive source-code services program, protexIP for software IP management.

Welcome to this year's 20th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. In an interview Miguel de Icaza said that Debian's community commitment is fantastic, but it is a very hard platform to support for an independent software vendor. Philip Charles also announced new K6 mini iso images.