Federal politicians should dump their policy of procurement neutrality and actively encourage agencies to adopt open source software, OSS supporters claim.
New versions of Ubuntu Linux have been released at a steady six-month cadence, but project founder Mark Shuttleworth is considering a six-week delay to improve the reliability of an important new version.
Mandriva and Ubuntu, two significant but second-tier versions of Linux, each released major updates on Thursday.
Debian, a longstanding and steadfastly non-commercial Linux project, released version 4.0, called Etch, over the long weekend.
Sun Microsystems will open-source Java, it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said on Tuesday.
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Ubuntu is very user-friendly but not right for everyone. Oddly, both casual and advanced users will find this operating system wonderful, while day-to-day users may rail against Ubuntu's incompatibility with certain popular software applications.
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