Making hardware vendors love open source, Jan 31, 2008

Reverse-engineering open source drivers for hardware devices will only reduce the pressure on manufacturers to provide such drivers, Dirk Hohndel told an audience at the Australian national Linux conference today.

Leading open-source distributor Red Hat Inc, which is shifting its focus to greater China, expects its revenue in the region to grow by 50 percent in the next fiscal year on healthy demand from enterprise clients.

Linux Journal recently caught up with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon, to find out more about a recently announced partnership between Mandriva of France and Turbolinux of Japan.

The Open Solutions Alliance, a consortium working on interoperability of open-source software, has set up a European chapter due to the high number of community-developed software projects that have sprung up in the region.

An unfamiliar brand name sits atop the Amazon.com bestseller list for notebook computers. This hourly-updated popularity contest has recently been dominated by Taiwan’s Asus rather than Silicon Valley’s Apple. Five of the top 10 at one point this week were Asus machines, compared with three Apples, one Toshiba and one Hewlett-Packard unit.

Contrary to what you may have heard, free and open source software (FOSS) is not anti-business. But neither is it pro-business.

All in all, Ulteo looks promising, and it offers a few important advantages compared to Web-based office suites like Google Docs and Zoho.

SCO has filed its 10K Annual Report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007. What a year it has been.

ASUS is expanding its Eee PC line to include not one but multiple extra models, including an all-in-one desktop, the company said today at a press event.

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