iPod roots traced back to 1970s UK
Solid-state music player invented same year Sony markets WalkmanThis is amusing: apparently the roots of the iPod’s development are traced back to 1979, when “Kane Kramer from Hertfordshire filed a...
View ArticleMandriva Linux 2009 Released
Will that be FTP or Torrent?Mandriva’s latest release: Mandriva Linux 2009. Get it while it’s hot! Mandriva’s always been a bit of an overlooked distro, imo… but it continues to install easily and work...
View ArticleWoz predicts death of the iPod
Maybe if it came in more colours...?Steve Wozniak speaks out, predicting the death of the iPod and suggesting things he doesn’t like about the iPhone, comparing it with Google’s Android platform. Woz...
View ArticleTen OSS Forks & Why they Forked
Forks in the head ...er, *road*Royal Pingdom serves up 10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened. Some reasons better than others, of course. Interesting to note where the fork...
View Article25 highly anticipated open-source releases coming this year
Are we there yet? How much looonnnger?Esther Schindler sifts through 25 highly anticipated open-source releases coming this year which will be of interest to people in various categories from IT Admins...
View Articlebiting the hand… that gives out driver code?
C#, Mono, and checking the fine printToday Microsoft released some GPL driver code for Linux for some hardware. Why? Well, so that the hardware could be better virtualized in a VM running Linux on a...
View ArticleLondon Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux
In the Can't Afford to "Die Like a Dog" Dept.London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux: When it comes to business computer systems, nothing is more mission-critical than the massive trading...
View ArticleSave MySQL! » Customers pay the bill
Show your support for MySQLIn April 2009, Oracle announced that it had agreed to acquire Sun. Since Sun had acquired MySQL the previous year, this would mean that Oracle, the market leader for closed...
View ArticleCalling all Open Source innovators
[Press Release]Calling all Open Source innovators: showcase your innovative product at the ‘Demo Cup’ and enter it for the ‘Open Innovation Awards’ at the 2010 Open World Forum Paris, 30 June 2010, for...
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