Dvorak Prefers Ubuntu
John C. Dvorak, a PC Mag columnist long seen as a major Microsoft apologist supporter, has become enamored of Ubuntu for himself and his readers, and expresses it in a recent column, Dvorak Likes...
View Article25 Highly-Anticipated Open Source Releases
ComputerWorld publishes a lengthy piece titled 25 Highly-Anticipated Open Source Releases Coming This Year. It’s a roundup of some major open source project releases scheduled for the rest of this...
View ArticleAndroids in the Home!
Google’s Android platform, while starting slow, shows a great deal of potential and has piqued the interest of many phone vendors and carriers. In the NY Times’ piece T-Mobile to Use Google Software in...
View ArticleHungary and Tatarstan Choose FOSS
Our friend Christian Einfeldt reports on Slashdot that Hungary and Tatarstan (in Russia) have made strategic moves to adopt Free and Open Source Software. On April 2, the Hungarian government announced...
View ArticleUbuntu 9.04 Hits the Streets
That’s right, today is the release day for Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope! Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains...
View ArticleFirefox Has 270 Million Users
Internetnews.com reports Firefox Hits 270 Million Users, Without Linux. The open source Firefox web browser from Mozilla now has some 270 million users. That’s the figure that Mozilla staffer Aza...
View ArticleBrazil’s Telecentro Program Expands
In a recent post, the North-by-South blog announces Brazil is aggressively expanding their Telecentro program, community free software workshops and technology education. The Brazilian National Support...
View ArticleKDE’s Social Desktop
Slashdot pointed out the gradual arrival of the social desktop elements long-planned by the KDE project in Social Desktop Starts to Arrive in KDE. The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the...
View ArticleFrance’s Gendarmerie Ubuntu Case Study
The French Gendarmerie (national police force) has been gradually moving its software infrastructure to open source over the past several years, starting with the adoption of OpenOffice.org on Windows,...
View ArticleWill Tablets Replace PCs?
The iPad and forthcoming tablets from Android (and perhaps WebOS) are likely to displace PCs, at least in the developing world where the installed base of either is currently very low. The first...
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