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main : News : Qualcomm gives Eudora a Mozilla makeover
Posted: ( Sat 21st Oct 2006 05:44:33[PM] UTC )
Telecommunications technology company Qualcomm is rebuilding its Eudora e-mail program using open-source Thunderbird software from the Mozilla Foundation.

main : News : Sun's plan for open-source chips bears fruit
Posted: ( Sat 21st Oct 2006 05:44:33[PM] UTC )
A start-up called Simply RISC has built a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T1, an indication of interest in Sun's plan to encourage others to adopt and modify open-source designs for the processor.

main : News : Microsoft takes on net nasties
Posted: ( Wed 14th Jun 2006 04:24:22[PM] UTC )
Allchin says Ballmer, the world's 13th wealthiest man with a fortune of about $18 billion, spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.

main : News : Financial firm trades in OpenView for open source
Posted: ( Sun 27th Nov 2005 01:43:02[AM] UTC )
Five years ago Yodlee Inc. purchased a proprietary application to monitor its core application and network infrastructure. Then the troubles began. The Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of risk management applications implemented Hewlett-Packard's OpenView product to monitor its own IT infrastructure, but instead of a smooth, carefree process, the company quickly realized several unforeseen challenges on the radar screen.

main : News : Open-source leader steps aside at industry group
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:02:35[AM] UTC )
The Open Source Initiative says that it has reorganized in an effort to bring more structure to the open-source software movement and that co-founder Eric Raymond is stepping down from his position as president.

main : News : Speed improvements expected in KDE 4
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:02:34[AM] UTC )
KDE 4, the next major version of the Linux desktop KDE, is likely to start up and run faster due to changes that have been made to Qt, the graphical framework that KDE is built on.

main : News : Open-source companies see profit aplenty
Posted: ( Thu 17th Jun 2004 04:12:41[PM] UTC )
It's easy to make money giving away software--just don't give away too much of it.

SkyOS : News : SkyOS 5.0 Beta
Posted: ( Mon 12th Apr 2004 06:13:38[PM] UTC )
SkyOS is a free operating system written from scratch for the x86 architecture. It has all of the features desired in a modern operating system. Version 5.0 is now available for distribution to beta testers. Users may download previous versions for free.

main : News : Athene 1.1 released!
Posted: ( Mon 6th Aug 2001 09:53:58[PM] UTC )
Rocklyte Systems has released the first official (non-beta) release of Athene, a multi-platform operating system that's free to non-commercial users.

main : News : MPS: New Free OS
Posted: ( Mon 6th Aug 2001 09:53:58[PM] UTC )
MPS, a new free operating system is a DOS clone, based on FreeDOS. It promises to give DOS a slew of new abilities making it ideal for HTTP servers and others. Powerful script system is designed for creating http servers, e-mail servers and others. It will give power of Unix on DOS. Programmed in Turbo Pascal, MPS is still in early programing mode and help from other programers is welcome. The MPS source code will be available on its successful functioning.

main : News : Triple boot without partitioning!
Posted: ( Mon 6th Aug 2001 09:53:58[PM] UTC )
A little product from Romtec,Trios, allows three EIDE devices to be connected to it while switching between the three. This is great for all users especially newbies who don't mind spending more money for an easier install. It is mainly used to select between harddrives. And the best thing is that one OS can be put on a seperate harddrive, selected at start up and run as if it was the only OS on the computer. No problems with windows wanting to format your partitions. It is also protected against accidental switching.