U.N. Lends Backing to the $100 Laptop, Jan 27, 2006

The United Nations on Thursday lent its support to a project which aims to ship inexpensive, hand-cranked laptops to school-aged children worldwide.

The first draft of Version 3.0 of the GNU GPL (General Public License) has arrived, and its authors -- Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) -- predictably aren't shying away from controversy.

Red Hat representative Gillian Farquhar announced last week that the company plans to add support for Apple's new Intel Macs to its popular distribution.

I recently received a note from a disgruntled Linux user. He was having an awful time trying to get his unidentified USB Canon scanner to work with his copy of Xandros Desktop 3. He's not the only one stuck in that position.

New Zealand and Australia are lagging behind Europe and North America in the adoption of open source software (OSS), according to a report from research firm Forrester. However, local OSS experts believe Forrester’s figures understate the true picture

A start-up specializing in tools that help developers deploy software on Linux-based appliances and virtual machines has received $6.4 million funding.

Behrens believes that Linux will pose more of a threat to Symbian, with powerful manufacturers backing both operating systems in the Japanese market.

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