This post is our contribution to the community to highlight some of the women in Open Source and to hopefully engage other women to join.
“We here at Pingdom have been talking about why we don’t see that many women in Open Source, and were actually about to investigate it further and possibly write a blog [...]
Mozilla’s chairman explains why mobile devices need an open-source browser.
There’s no doubt that it’s getting easier to access the Web on a mobile device. Thanks to the iPhone and Apple’s Web browser, Safari, millions of people feel as though they finally have the Internet in their pocket. But there’s still a lot of work that [...]
Xandros, Inc., the leading provider of custom OEM Linux solutions, next-generation Linux desktop and server products, and advanced cross-platform Windows-Linux management tools, today announced the acquisition of Linspire, developer of the CNR software distribution facility, and the Linspire and Freespire Linux desktop operating systems. The combination of the technologies, expertise, and market presence of the [...]
“By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms,” predicts a Gartner report, The State of Open Source 2008, which sees a “stealth” impact for the technology in embedded form: “Users who reject open source for technical, legal or business reasons might find themselves unintentionally using open [...]
Mozilla’s community-driven Spread Firefox web site announced earlier this year that the total number of Firefox downloads had exceeded 500 million, and counter continues to climb and will likely get a big boost following the Firefox 3 release.
Mozilla is aiming to create what may be the geekiest world record ever with its upcoming Firefox 3 [...]
The folks over at Android Community have posted some exclusive videos of some new Android demos. Very cool stuff happening with that platform. I am not going to write too much about this as the the videos they provided speak for themselves.
And check out the compass feature in the following video, which I find really [...]
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Linux may be a free platform for many and a reasonably inexpensive alternative to Unix and proprietary platforms for others, but make no mistake. For years, Linux has been big business, and if projections made by the market researchers at IDC turn out to be correct, in a few short years the Linux server ecosystem [...]
IBM is not only supporting and backing up Linux as an alternative to Windows, but also is actively pushing OS X.
“In line with IBM’s external strategy of offering a true ‘Open Client’ that may be Windows, Linux or a Mac,” the document noted, “Research IS is focusing on providing an IBM application stack on multiple [...]
This month’s Harvard Business Review features a case study of a company debating whether to open source its software. Here’s a mini review of the article.
Companies building websites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned.
Speaking at the Internet World conference in London on Tuesday, Tristan Nitot claimed such applications threaten the open nature of the internet because the companies behind them could “have an agenda”. While he [...]
“…… pointing to the Open Source poster on the wall, I said, “Didn’t you hear? Hell has frozen over?” :)”
“Last Friday, March 28th, 2008 was Microsoft’s first company-wide Open Source Day. This was a significant event and milestone in the company’s move towards openness and was made freely available to any employee interested in attending. [...]
One of the most significant moments in the history of the modern software industry took place in 1998 when Netscape announced plans to release the source code of its browser under a license that would freely permit modification and redistribution. That pivotal event represents the point at which software freedom extended its reach beyond the [...]
Today, on March 31st Mozilla turns 10.
(may I call it a B’Day!)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (March 31, 1998) — Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:NSCP) today announced that the first developer release of its Communicator 5.0 source code is available for download from the mozilla.org Web site. Targeted at the developer community, this unprecedented release of [...]
The combined KDE/Amarok booth and developer room at the annual Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brusssels was a great experience (as usual!). Many people showed up from the KDE and Amarok communities, and we had a hard time fitting all our cool hardware and people in the booth. Luckily, the talks [...]
“Document Freedom Day will provide a global rallying point for Document Liberation and Open Standards.”
Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general.
Complementary to Software Freedom Day, we aim [...]
Ten years since Netscape Communications Corporation launched mozilla.org to coordinate the open source development of the Netscape Communicator 5.0 source code, an endeavor that would later become known more broadly as the Mozilla project. At the time, Netscape described mozilla.org as “a dedicated team within Netscape with an associated Web site that will promote, foster [...]
The polls are closed, the data has been audited and the results are in. Here are the official results for the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:
Desktop Environment of the Year KDE (52.08%)
Window Manager of the Year Compiz (33.65%)
Messaging App of the Year Pidgin (53.90%)
Mail Client of the Year Thunderbird (53.72%)
Virtualization Product of the Year [...]
The European Union yesterday announced that it will invest US$1 million in a study to find the best open source tools for use in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The grant of €703 000 was awarded to a consortium of 11 members, including Canonical, backers of Ubuntu Linix, and the University of the Western Cape. [...]
Pluto Home is the project that LinuxMCE is based on. They are essentially the same thing, the different is Pluto Home is supposed to be a black box application that takes over your computer (with the advantage of stability) whereas LinuxMCE is designed to coexist with everything else a little better. Pluto Home is also [...]
Linux Journal’s Readers’ Choice Awards offer the opportunity for readers to vote for their Linux and Open Source favorites. Polls will be open through February 14th. Winners will be prominently featured in an upcoming issue of Linux Journal.
They have compiled nominations and came up with the below list — if your favorite is not listed [...]
On Friday, January 18th, Aaron Seigo, President of the KDE e.V. gave the keynote at the KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California about KDE 4, presenting KDE to the world and the world to KDE. The keynote was recorded, and is now available for streaming through Google Video.
[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6642148224800885420&hl=en]
A must watch video if you [...]
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