Linux Australia’s new president, Pia Smith, says it’s time for Linux Australia to get serious. ZDNet Australia talks to her about the organisation's plans for 2003.
Legal wrangling around a South Australian company's attempt to trademark the term Linux Australia has taken an unusual turn.
What seems to be an embarrassing blunder by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in its hunt for online pirates has prompted Linux Australia to contact its legal representatives and warn of a possible breach of Australian law.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has blamed Linux Australia's wrongful receipt of a copyright infringement notice on a worker's "bad day".
Australia is set to get its very own OLPC arm, to deliver XO laptops to schoolchildren across the country.
So, it seems the WOW -- for Microsoft's Windows Vista -- is not now, but sometime in the future, maybe.
The consultants that rolled out one of Australia's biggest known Linux desktop project are set to take on the big boys.
Why has the country's biggest known desktop Linux implementation gone relatively unpublicised for so long?
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?
Linux Australia's president believes the organisation is stuck in no man's land, and has questioned its survival. Will someone tell him he's sitting on a pot of gold?
Government departments have shed their initial reluctance to use open source technologies, but the problem persists -- how do you determine appropriate usage?
Phase two of government ERP implementations is set to take off. What can you expect? Also: Find out why one local city council had to ditch Oracle.
As Dell Australia welcomes on board a new managing director, David Miller, we ask for his views on the current PC market in Australia.
Oracle hopes to take advantage of Australian IT professional's interest in Linux, with the release of a new version of its 9I database, which can be run across multiple Linux servers in a configuration known as clustering.
Linus Torvalds, who was attending Australia's largest Linux Conference, is worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux.
The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne attending Linux.conf.au -- Australia's largest Linux conference.
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, Samba author and recipient of the mantle for Australia's "smartest man in IT", tells how Samba was nearly named Salmonberry, and what the SMB 2 protocol can do.
Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.
The launch of Windows Vista will create a huge opportunity for Linux vendors to take a larger share of the corporate desktop market, according to the president of Linux Australia.
Ubuntu is a well integrated, practical and absolutely free Linux distribution. There may be worries about support, but the Canonical organisation is building a good reputation and the head of steam in the wider Ubuntu community should provide decent local support from third parties, too.
Apple's move to adopt Intel chips will inevitably result in new victors and casualities in the desktop battlefield. Here's a sample.
Four Linux companies have joined forces to develop a common core version of the OS for businesses, but a local analyst doubts a unified approach is enough to encourage take-up by Australian businesses.
Red Hat has released a new version of its Linux operating system with features aimed to appeal to both the personal computing and server markets.
Epson has flooded the market with new product this week, so you're spoiled for choice if you're looking for a photo printer. Linux is also moving out of the shadows, with a couple of companies bragging about Linux compatibility.
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