Linux comes to Windows users' rescue, Feb 19, 2009

Most people don't have a dual-boot operating system setup. If you're a Windows user and you're looking at never-ending BSODs (blue screens of death) and you need help, Linux can still come to your aid.

Nokia announced last week that as of version 4.5, the Qt GUI toolkit, most famously used as the basis of the KDE desktop, would change licences from the GPL to the LGPL.

This time it's Zarafa, developer of collaboration software, which has announced it's adding native support for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) to its Linux-based e-mail and calendaring server.

Timesys Corporation (http://www.timesys.com), a premier provider of embedded Linux software solutions, today announced an upcoming, four session webinar series intended to guide developers through the process of building a Bluetooth enabled home automation device using LinuxLink 3.0 and the award-winning Factory build system.

For IT teams, it's not a case of having no budget. It is simply that they must get better value for money. They must invest to grow the business or save significant dollars.

Red Hat today announced that W. Steve Albrecht will resign from Red Hat’s Board of Directors, effective June 30, 2009.

The big news from the GSMA Mobile World Congress this year: New phones using the Android, LiMo and Symbian open-source operating systems are rolling out in 2009.

Giving your core product away is certainly an unusual business strategy, yet some succesful software companies are doing exactly that.

DLT Solutions has been awarded a contract to provide Red Hat software and services to the U.S. Department of Defense.

The U.S. has a new stimulus package that is set to change much of the face of the national. Like it or hate it, this "bundle of funds" is headed into a number of critical sectors of the US economy with the idea of jumpstarting our economy – including schools.

You can count on two things for every Debian release: It will be later than expected, and it will be suitable for every possible level of expertise. Debian 5.0 is no exception.

President Obama’s Administration is being encouraged to embrace open source software, copying a similar UK government game plan.

Chris Kilby has been running an IT suite for residents of his local housing estate in Stepney, east London. A suite of desktop PCs running Edubuntu with a Fedora-based server has been built and runs on a shoestring budget.

Cellphones are growing up, and they just might pose a new threat to the Intel-Microsoft based personal computers.

The Gutenberg project is a noteworthy and honorable effort to digitize copyright-free texts. This project has released into the public domain over 20,000 classic books. This article will explain how to integrate this huge body of material with the Ubuntu desktop.

Millions of people have been introduced to Linux through netbooks and are satisfied with it.

Do I use Windows XP Home or Edubuntu for the classroom?

A method to set up a cross-platform media streaming service using a Linux computer as a server.

New effort by vendor Coverity promises to map over 2,500 open source apps.

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