Forget about open source at Apple, Aug 04, 2006

We all cheered when Apple began experimenting with community-driven, open source development for its flagship operating system, Mac OS X. But if those experiments are now drawing to a close, should anyone really be surprised?

There's a lot of buzz out on the Internet right now about just what Fedora's intended user base is, and for which users Fedora is appropriate.

It's been nearly a year since OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released, so I sat down with Louis Suárez-Potts, chair of OpenOffice.org's community council and community manager, at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., last week to see what's on the OpenOffice.org development roadmap.

Mako took a break from his work on Ubuntu this week to speak with SearchOpenSource.com about the challenges of generating a community, Ubuntu's server-side additions and the possibility of wide-scale enterprise deployment of this popular OS.

Yahoo! doesn't plan to release all its software code under an open source license because it's unpractical and carries limited benefits, Yahoo! developer Jeremy Zawodny said on his blog.

They're popping up all over the place these days: screencasts of everything from A(jax) to Z(end). Belgian computer scientist Bram Biesbrouck is working on the "L", with a free "videohelpdesking" site, captorials.com, that encourages Linux users to record solutions using GPL screencasting software and host them on his site.

Microsoft has released its first high-performance operating system, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The product is Microsoft's entry into the battle with Linux to provide platforms for research and other compute intensive workloads.

The free Debian Linux operating system has added the OpenVZ virtualization software to its "unstable," or development, distribution, known as Sid.

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