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Linspire, a company that is aiming to develop a more mainstream version of Linux, has often taken heat for being less open with its software than other Linux distrubution providers. Now, the San Diego-based firm is inviting criticism again, this time by offering a free version of its Linux OS that i...

In a move to make mobile Linux applications easier to build, Trolltech on Tuesday launched a reprogrammable phone based on the Linux operating system. The Qtopia Greenphone lets developers and handset manufacturers create, modify and test Linux-based mobile phone applications on a working GSM/GPRS d...

PalmSource this week announced that it will push its new software library, which is part of the Access Linux Platform, into the open source developer community. The firm said its libsqlfs software library, a SQLite add-on, would ease implementation of the ALP. The library is immediately available fo...

In an effort to reach out to open source developers, Apple Computer this week said it will release buildable kernel source code for Intel-based Macs, beginning with code for Mac OS X, version 10.4.7. The firm previously released similar code for its PowerPC-based Macs. Apple quietly announced the o...

Virtualization continued to capture attention last week as open source system utilization software from OpenVZ won operating system-level support from Debian Linux. OpenVZ Project Manager Kir Kolyshkin told LinuxInsider the announcement was key for the open source project's larger objective of incor...

Linux leader Red Hat made clear this week its support for XenSource and its open source Xen virtualization technology, announcing plans to integrate the offering into the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Despite speculation that Red Hat might be building its own virtualization technol...

Hackers made Firefox the latest subject of attack last week, utilizing software that could capture extremely sensitive information, including credit card numbers and passwords. On July 25, Symantec Security Response detected Infostealer.Snifula, which downloads malicious Trojans onto a user's compu...

It didn't take long for Novell to remark on how well its newest Linux operating system, Suse Linux Enterprise 10, is doing in the marketplace. The company on Monday touted interest in the new platform as well as positive reviews of it, just two weeks after its release. Novell claimed more than 165,0...

The Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center released a second working draft for the next iteration of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3, which updates digital rights management, patent and other provisions included in the most popular free and open source software lice...

Saying it may have some scratch for the open source software itch, search giant Google chose the O'Reilly Open Source Developers Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., this week to unveil a free service hosting open source software projects. The service, Project Hosting, will give open source softwar...

The latest customer survey comparing Linux and Windows servers crowns the open source operating system the winner, but tips some ease-of-administration advantages to Microsoft. Results of the Research and Markets survey, which did not specify any particular Linux distribution or Windows server versi...

As part of its appeal against a decision by a district court judge, SCO has filed a claim purporting that IBM destroyed certain software code, thus making it impossible for the Utah-based company to detail how IBM had infringed its Unix code. Last year IBM asked the court to limit the scope of SCO'...

Government entities around the world are not only increasing their use of free and open source software, they are actually sharing, collaborating and coordinating in open source fashion to meet federal, state and local government IT needs, recent data suggests. IDC's government IT research company G...

The Rice University open publishing project Connexions scored an on-demand printing deal with Qoop, a content delivery company, aimed at making the educational site's materials more accessible and printable for educators and students. Inspired by the open source software movement, where software cod...

Antivirus and security giant McAfee stirred up some controversy with the first issue of its security journal Sage, highlighting how hackers and creators of malicious software, or malware, are using open source software development techniques to target computer systems and users. McAfee, which mainly...