Open Source Software News

November 21 was the seventh anniversary of MEPIS Linux, so it seems fitting that Warren Woodford has uploaded SimplyMEPIS 8.4.80, the alpha release of MEPIS 8.5. Available from MEPIS and public mirrors, the ISO files for 32 and 64 bit processors are SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.4.80-a0_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_8.4.80-a0_64.iso. Warren Woodford explained the ...

" As of 2010, education and training centres in Vietnam will have to use open-source software to cut cost and avoid software copyright infringement, according to a draft circular from the Education and Training Ministry .

The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.10 Follow me on Twitter Last edited 11/10/2009 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 9.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.

The software package, which runs on the Canonical Ubuntu Linux operating system, is aimed primarily at businesses and organizations that cannot afford traditional PCs and proprietary software for all employees.

Klaus Knopper has released version 6.2 of his Debian-based live-CD Linux distro.

For those who have fret about Microsoft fighting against open source, I have news for you: Microsoft's impact on open source may be worse as a friend than as an enemy.

When Google made their announcement yesterday [Thursday November 20, 2009], included in their release statement was the fact that their new operating system would be open source.

Now this is one to ponder. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Barack Obama, president of the United States.

Eric Lai, Computerworld Microsoft is, predictably, not all that impressed by Google's demonstration of its upcoming Chrome OS, but neither were a number of potential rivals in the Linux and instant-on operating system space.

Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now.

Facebook is not only the world's biggest social network, it's also one of the most popular places to share photos .

Actuate Corporation , the people behind BIRTa , has awarded a 2009 Excellence Award for BIRT Innovation to Leslie Jarrett of the Bank of East Asia Ltd in London, for applying a forward-thinking approach to tackling compliance using open source information reporting.

Getting under the hood of an old computer that may have seen better days isn't everyone's idea of fun.

LiMo Foundation announced that Korean wireless provider SK Telecom will deploy a Samsung-made "SCH-M510 "phone that complies with the LiMo specification and offers a 3.5-inch AMOLED display.

Google unveiled its Debian Linux- and Chrome browser based "Chrome OS" today and announced the open-sourcing of the project.

November 17, 2009 - 12:20 P.M. Linux powers the fastest computers on the planet 136 comments Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their remarkable speeds.

For the past two decades, scale-out server cluster architecture has been the dominant trend in supercomputing, as users and vendors move away from big iron high-performance computing -- but at what cost? At the Supercomputing 09 conference this week, HPC users and experts weighed in and said that scale-out supercomputing with commodity hardware has ...

EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 18, 2009 - Mentor Graphics Corporation , a leading provider of embedded Linux and Android solutions , today announced its delivery of the Android Development System for the Texas Instruments Incorporated OMAP35x processors based on ARM Cortex -A8 technology.

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, climbed down from the tree last month with new features and updated software.

SC09 -- QLogic Corp. , a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, along with other high performance computing industry leaders, was awarded HPCwire's Editor's Choice for "Best HPC Collaboration Between Government and Industry" at SC09.