IP attorney: Bankrupt or not, SCO case is 'boring', Jan 17, 2007

For many IT managers and open source advocates, the infamous SCO trial resembles one of those hokey daytime dramas. What was once the Linux trial of the ages has today devolved into a contract argument with little bearing on the future of Linux or opens source software.

Just because KDE has been designed to be portable across Linux, FreeBSD and other UNIX/X11 environments for an age now, doesn't mean we aren't up for the occasional challenge.

Sun Microsystems today began touting its Solaris 10 operating system as "a more strategic alternative to commercial Linux distributions".

With Intel Corp. processors supporting the company's Virtualization Technology (VT) becoming more pervasive, Linux kernel developers are writing the code to improve hardware virtualization and hence performance.

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux, the next-generation client runtime for engaging with Flash content and applications on Linux open source operating systems.

It may be a pariah to Linux users in the United States, but litigious Unix developer The SCO Group apparently has friends in high places in tech-mad India.

Linus Torvalds explains why the unexpected resilience of kernel version 2.6 has delayed the move to kernel version 2.7. In this two minute video he said that when work started on 2.6, he was worried that major changes would destabilise the kernel.

Cisco is violating the terms of the general public licence (GPL) with one of its iPhone models, according to an open source developer.

In the beginning of 2003, the Dutch government started a program called Open Standards and Open Source Software (OSSOS) to stimulate Dutch government agencies to use open standards in their software and to inform them about open source software.

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