Sun: We screwed up on open source, Jun 25, 2008

Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".

Torvalds wasn't concerned about knowing who the contributors were working for: "I know they get paid for doing Linux work and as far as I am concerned, I interact with a person"

Heading in a different direction from its main rivals, Ubuntu Linux will use KVM as its primary virtualisation software

Veteran Microsoft security expert, Jesper Johansson, says he may dump Microsoft's Windows Media Center in favour of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE after struggling with Redmond's DRM (Digital Rights Management) software.

Software patents are slowing innovation, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said on Tuesday.

Australian-born Andrew Morton, a key deputy to Linux leader Linus Torvalds, has taken a job at search engine powerhouse Google, a major user of Linux and other open-source software.

Who said .NET only runs on Windows? In this article we take a look at DotGNU and how you can get .NET applications running on Linux and other flavours of Unix.

The PHP Group has announced this week the availability of PHP 5, the next version of the popular Web scripting language.