Linux Clients at 1-2 Percent Market Share
May 04, 2009
Two statistics for April show that Linux clients have grown to a market share of one to two percent. Both see Linux as gradually gaining ground,
while Microsoft still maintains its quasi monopoly.
$1000 Stipend for Usability Students from Google and Canonical
May 01, 2009Ten stipends have been made available in the Season of Usabilty from June to August 2009 with an applications deadline of May 20.
more »Xesam and Nepomuk Desktop Ontologies Merge
Apr 30, 2009Sebastian Trüg has announced that the Xesam vs. Nepomuk issue is settled and that they will merge into a single desktop ontology.
more »Apple Wants to Muzzle Tinkerers - EFF filing suit
Apr 29, 2009Apple has warned operators of a wiki about airing discussion about circumventing Apple's coupling of its iPod and iPhone hardware with iTunes. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation is filing suit against Apple.
more »Adobe Reader Under Threat
Apr 27, 2009Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco 2009, chief security officer of F-Secure, Mikko Hypponen, advised against the use of Adobe's Acrobat and recommended users switch to an open source PDF reader.
more »Ubuntu 9.04: Fast Starter
Apr 24, 2009Canonical has released its next Ubuntu offering in its typical half-year cycle. Fresh software and a faster startup characterize the new distro.
more »Competition Killer: European Commission Documents 20 Years of Microsoft Anticompetitive Behavior
Apr 23, 2009The Groklaw legal forum has provided a document under European Commission sponsorship that demonstrates Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior during the last 20 years.
more »Candidates for Google Summer of Code 2009
Apr 23, 2009A fairly long list of projects will take part in this year's Google Summer of Code, the fifth since 2005. Students will be working in grand style to improve products from these popular open source projects.
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