Linux news
Prototype $200 Tablet Runs Android, Chromium OS, Linux (PC World)
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 22:16 | by Anonymous Coward
PC World - $200 tablet PCs have been something of a pipe dream. There was the Crunchpad, which was supposed to be $200, but that didn’t last very long, coming out as the $400 Joo Joo. If what Freescale showed off at Mobile World Congress becomes reality, though, the dream may finally come true.
Fedora 13 Alpha Released
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 21:36 | by Anonymous Coward
AdamWill writes "The first pre-release of Fedora 13, Fedora 13 Alpha, has been announced and is available here. As always, a new Fedora brings a bundle of new features, including available experimental open source 3D acceleration support for Nvidia graphics adapters, automatic printer driver installation, easy color management on the GNOME desktop, a bundle of improvements to NetworkManager and more.
"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 20:15 | by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "We all know about the Mythical Man-Month, the argument that adding more programmers to a software project just makes it later and later.
Linux Takes Over E-Voting In Australian State
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 05:19 | by Anonymous Coward
daria42 writes "The Electoral Commission in the Australian state of Victoria has made plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux in the next state election in November of this year.
Rackspace Hires to Align With MySQL Offshoot (PC World)
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 13:00 | by Anonymous Coward
PC World - A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
WordPress Guns for Web Content Management Duties (PC World)
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 18:40 | by Anonymous Coward
PC World - Long popular with bloggers, the open-source WordPress blogging software is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.
Rivals Report Boost from Microsoft's Browser Ballot (NewsFactor)
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 17:05 | by Anonymous Coward
NewsFactor - Mozilla and Opera Software say they are seeing an uptick in demand for their browsers in the wake of Microsoft's launch of a choice ballot in Europe. Mozilla CEO John Lilly told The New York Times over the weekend that more than 50,000 Firefox downloads have already occurred via direct links from the new choice screen that the European Commission mandated last year as part of its antitrust settlement with Microsoft.
Motorola Releases Two New Android Smartphones (NewsFactor)
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 14:49 | by Anonymous Coward
NewsFactor - Motorola is placing two new bets on the open-source Android operating system with the release of its Backflip and Devour smartphones. The uniquely designed Backflip began selling through AT&T Wireless late last week, and the Detour is now available from Verizon Wireless.
Mozilla's Drumbeat Beats to an Open Web (PC Magazine)
Sat, 03/06/2010 - 18:46 | by Anonymous Coward
PC Magazine - In Mozilla's world, the Firefox Web browser is but a mere battle in a larger war, one that's aimed at punching holes through closed, proprietary Web platforms of all kinds. What's on the horizon? "Drumbeat".
Group Seeks to Open Source Data-center Design (PC World)
Fri, 03/05/2010 - 17:10 | by Anonymous Coward
PC World - A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry.
