Only 1,000 Beers For Bug-Test Winners?, Oct 25, 2005

The winner of the Crash and Win beta contest will nab 1,000 German beers for finding the most bugs in the upcoming Linux-based BitDefender Mail Protection for Enterprise.

Dell is offering its low-cost Latitude 110L notebook pre-loaded with the Mandriva operating system, officials at the Parisian Linux distributor announced Friday.

Linux vendor Novell will soon release its first multi-vendor software and hardware stack configured around SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), officials said Tuesday.

IBM's plea for less paperwork worked, with Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells this week deferring 97 percent of the documentation required from a previous ruling.

To say PJ's not a SCO fan would be an understatement, a fact that has won her the adoration of a legion of FOSS fans.

The Open Source Development Labs' (OSDL) presence in the Asia-Pacific region expanded with the inclusion of its first Korean organization, officials said Monday.

Currently, FairUCE only works on Linux-based MTAs using Postfix. While popular, Postfix is overshadowed by two other Linux-based e-mail server programs: Sendmail and qmail.

Linux distributor Mandrakesoft has bought Brazilian-based Linux vendor Conectiva for $2.3 million, officials said Thursday.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) wants to find out what's needed to make desktop Linux successful, so it launched an initiative on Monday to find out how to make that happen.

Commercial Linux distributors can hold their own against rival Microsoft but won't displace Windows' server deployment lead over open source operating systems for the next few years, a new study says.

The report, on the cost of switching to Linux, which the Yankee Group released Monday, shows the open-source operating system also won't put a "perceptible" dent in the 94 percent market share enjoyed by Windows on the the desktop, the research firm said.