Can Firefox outfox IE?, Mar 15, 2005

Battling browsers are back. Just as in the 1990s, when Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator fought each other for supremacy, today Mozilla's Firefox browser is trying to gain traction over IE.

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC.

The word in Hannover is that some German government agencies have switched their allegiance away from SuSE Linux, because following Novell's takeover it is no longer a German company

The Debian GNU/Linux project has proposed axing the number of computer architectures for which it actively develops, with Sparc and IBM's S/390 amongst the casualties.

Latest statistics for the Web server market show that Fedora, Red Hat's free Linux operating system, is growing in popularity. But the picture isn't quite so rosy for its enterprise offering

A Chinese appliance company best-known in the US for its air conditioners has demonstrated a Linux cameraphone at a wireless tradeshow in New Orleans this week.

While Linux has spread its wings in the recent past, the desktop market has remained a tough nut to crack. Factors such as the lack of applications and hardware support have restricted the penguin to servers for the greater part.

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