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  • Article | 8/06/2010 Eclipse: Developers growing more fond of desktop Linux
    Developers in the Eclipse open source community are becoming more inclined to use Linux as their primary desktop operating system, according to a repo...
  • Article | 11/05/2010 Open-source software's hidden snags
    When CIO Daniel Chan was first prompted to use open-source software, cost savings weren't top of mind.
  • Article | 10/11/2009 Firefox: Five years in the open source hen house
    On its fifth birthday, Firefox must be considered both an incredible success and somewhat of a failure. The open source Web browser is a great product...
  • Article | 17/08/2009 The greatest open source software of all time
    Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners -- the best open source software for business -- and every year we have shamefully...
  • Article | 11/08/2009 Does GPL still matter?
    Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development sof...
  • Article | 24/07/2009 Microsoft's Linux madness has a method
    Under the glare of Microsoft's historic Linux kernel code submission this week is the fact that the software giant on many levels still lives in a com...
  • Article | 21/07/2009 Microsoft/Linux milestones
    Microsoft Monday made an historic move by submitting device drivers to the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license. Microsoft has had a checkered past with...
  • Article | 10/07/2009 Chrome OS could offend the open source community
    The announcement a few days ago of Google's new Chrome OS was simultaneously shocking and expected. It's a typically understated and quietly ambitious...
  • Article | 10/07/2009 Open-source media player VLC hits the big time
    For several years, the free, third-party media player of choice for many video connoisseurs was the open-source VLC media player. It worked on multipl...
  • Article | 3/07/2009 Moblin: a first look at Intel's open-source OS
    Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and, specifically, the kind of people who use them.
  • Article | 1/07/2009 What to look for in Firefox 3.5
    Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5, which you can download from Mozilla's Web site. Firefox 3.5 boasts a number of significant changes--ranging from n...
  • Article | 24/06/2009 Trade group: Free-to-obtain software has long-term costs
    Government agencies looking to save money by using software with no up-front purchase cost should fully consider the long-term expenditures for using ...
  • Article | 23/02/2009 Undermining expectations at Mobile World Congress
    Whatever your expectations, this year's Mobile World Congress -- the premier showcase for the global cellular industry -- was noteworthy for undermini...
  • Article | 12/11/2008 Specialty Linuxes to the rescue
    Linux is, among other things, a customizable operating system. Clever developers can craft a Linux whose kernel and packages are configured for a spec...

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