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  • Babel Com buys Everything Linux

    Aussie open source and web development consultancy Babel Com has acquired pioneering local Linux retailer, Everything Linux, following the untimely death of its founder Anthony Rumble in May.

  • Sun: US recession would help open source

    Sun executives claim that open source will benefit as US consumer spending grinds to a halt, and that its revenues are not negatively impacted by its development of "free" software.

  • HP calls for a bit of help with open source tools

    HP has called on developers to pitch in and help improve the open source management tools it made available to the community last week.

  • Novell targets Ubuntu, Fedora with OpenSuse 10.3

    Novell released OpenSuse 10.3 Thursday, its latest free version of the open-source operating system.

  • Ubuntu Hardy Heron due in Q2 2008

    Ubuntu Developer Jono Bacon posted news of the new version on a mailing list and his blog on Wednesday in the US. Hardy Heron will be the second of Canonical's Linux products to feature long-term support.

Blogs (3)

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Moonlight 1.0 hamstrung in Catch-22

    Little wonder these RIA on Linux discussions make me feel icky, as we can dial in at least another two years of proprietary plug-ins dominating on open-source desktops.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Where are the open-source twitter clients?

    With each passing day Twitter gains more momentum, more users and more influence. For users of the micro-blogging service, the option of using a leading open-source client is one that is sorely lacking.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Tax Office needs to rethink open source objections

    The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to security fears, with the code not subject to enough "technical scrutiny".

Features and Case Studies (8)

  • How open source is losing the charity battle

    Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.

  • Novell, open source and the Madagascan Mongoose

    It has competed hard with the likes of Microsoft and IBM, but over the years Novell has remained a smaller player than either of its two main rivals. CTO Jeff Jaffe tells what Novell has up its sleeve to bring the company up to speed: Fossa, an open source project named after the Madagascan relative of the Mongoose.

  • LCA Open Day

    Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff

  • Mini-Confs Day 2

    Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007.

  • What next Linux Australia?

    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?

Videos (7)

  • Tax Office CIO: Security issues taint open source

    The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to fears about security because the code has not been subject to enough "technical scrutiny".

  • Buzz Report: Save us from Windows Vista

    Last week in Buzz, the Windows Vista train of horror continues, and the Scrabulous boys get greedy. Plus, death from above!

  • Ballmer revives 'monkey boy' at Mix

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer does a monkey dance reprisal

  • iPhone SDK makes public debut

    From games to instant-messaging and business-oriented applications, Apple demonstrated practical uses of its software development kit. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi shares the highlights from the event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California

  • Jobs unveils iPhone App Store

    At an Apple event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, CEO Steve Jobs launches the company's new iPhone App Store. Third-party developers can build software for the device and have it distributed via the App Store and iTunes.

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