Businesses should not expect that the open source community will always provide it with the patches and fixes required to deliver business-grade application support, according to a panel of open source advocates speaking at CeBIT in Sydney.
Australia's biggest Linux conference will kick off next week and the organiser has promised that attendees will get a lesson in how to control and monitor everyday objects -- including a toilet flush -- using the open source operating system.
The makers of Wine, a compatibility tool that allows Windows applications to run on Linux machines without Windows installed, have released a stable version of Wine 1.0.
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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?
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?
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