Red Hat Plays a Hunch With Former Airline Exec, Dec 23, 2007

Red Hat has appointed Jim Whitehurst, formerly Delta Airlines' COO, as its CEO following the resignation of Matthew Szulik. Although Whitehurst is reportedly a Fedora user, his career doesn't include open source software experience.

We knew that the Asus Eee PC was going to be popular, but no one expected it to become this popular. Sales figures are starting to roll in for the Asus Eee PC and it turns out that Asus has shipped over 350,000 units thus far, outperforming all early estimations.

Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.

2007 is a year that will long be remembered in the open source and Linux communities. It was a year in which the twin underpinnings of what makes open source successful and what could serve to destroy it made the headlines.

As the saying goes, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who use amaroK, and those who don’t. amaroK is the ultimate music management software, and for a casual music buff like me, it’s the best you can get out there.

The Southern California Linux Expo has filled all available speaker slots for not only the SCALE 6X main conference, but also all three Friday specialty conferences.

They also have made a new driver package for Linux available for download. Unlike the Windows package this one adds quite a bit of new features.

Software licensed under the GPL open source license is considered to be Free Software but that doesn't mean it's free as in beer and that developers don't have rights.

There are 35 days left before Australia's national Linux conference gets underway in Melbourne on January 28 but tickets have already sold out.

Norway has established a new policy mandating government adoption of open standards. Starting in 2009, all documents published on state-operated web sites will have to use HTML, PDF, or ODF formats.

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