Analyst strikes down Firefox 'hype', Oct 25, 2006

The early release this week of the Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Web browser is another shot in the arm for the open source IE competitor but one industry analyst is less optimistic about Firefox's ability to compete with Microsoft.

I’ve been wanting to introduce my wife to Linux for quite some time on her old Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop, but there always seemed to be that one little reason to put it off

Just before the weekend, Network World's Jennifer Mears connected a bunch of dots that make it seem like it isn't a question of if, but rather, just when Oracle announces that it will offer a soup-to-nuts stack of software that not only includes the Linux operating systems, but one that comes from Ubuntu.

Red Hat has put Fedora Core 6 up for grabs. Xen fans and Mac fans have been asked to rejoice.

On this week's edition of BBC technology programme Digital Planet South African space tourist and open source evangelist Mark Shuttleworth talks about the developing world's need for technology solutions.

Fedora Core 6 (FC 6) is now available, offering Red Hat (Quote) users a view of the latest and greatest in open source technologies.

My first choice to install on her Averatec laptop ended up being FreeSpire. I liked the possibilities of the OS -- based on a secure, tested, open source system but with Windows compatibility, multimedia capabilities, and some user friendliness.

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