Microsoft on Thursday divulged a few more details about its upcoming Internet Explorer 7, and admitted that its implementation of tabs -- one of the most-requested new features -- will be just "catch-up" to rivals such as Firefox and Opera.

Seeking to relieve patent licensing worries by the open-source community, industry heavyweights here at the Linuxworld Summit conference said a revised version of the GPL (General Public License) could arrive sooner than many had expected.

Where is the Open Source Usability Experts Group? When you've got your database specialist, your glue logic guy and your OS expert together, where's the person who knows how real non-technical people react to software design?

The Mozilla Foundation is preparing to release the first alpha version of its next Firefox Web browser within the next few days.

This installment in LinuxDevices.com's "Executive Interview" series explores PalmSource's plans with respect to morphing Palm OS into a middleware and application stack that runs on top of Linux, with an aim of targeting mobile phones and other wireless-enabled devices.

A Novell-backed project seeking to create an open source version of web services technology in future versions of Windows could hit an IP hurdle from Microsoft.

Design your application's GUI look in XML, write the code in Java and plug the whole thing in to the GNOME desktop.

Now that Firefox has reached 50 million downloads, it's a good time to stop and reflect on the significance of the browser.

Avoid the load time of OpenOffice.org and view Microsoft Word documents in a terminal

Open-source licenses are changing, causing ripples in the Linux community. However, analysts here at the LinuxWorld Summit conference predict that greater change is due for open-source development and its business models.

Leading Linux vendor, Red Hat, is keen to maintain its 100 per cent year-on-year growth in the Asia-Pacific region and is promising greater partner support to achieve this.

In 2003, John Hansknecht, the director of technology at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, had a tough decision to make. The school had about a hundred older computers running Microsoft Office 97 and Windows NT, and some kind of upgrade was clearly required.

Scientific Linux (SL) might seem a strange choice as a desktop operating system for someone who is retired, disabled, and elderly, and who has relatively little scientific or programming knowledge, but I get great excitement from exploring the art of Linux distributions, and with Scientific Linux, that excitement is amplified by knowing I'm using the same operating system that is being used by many of the world's leading scientists.

The Honeypot Project ( http://project.honeynet.org ) has added fuel to the debate over which is more secure, Linux or Microsoft Windows. It found that unpatched Linux systems can be on the Internet for months before being successfully attacked, while Windows systems have been compromised in hours.

In the same theme of mixed commercial and free software - LAMP and Java developers and administrators may find a welcome convenience in leanring about blueglue from Open Logic.

In a circle of non-geeks, when one brings up the name " Linux ," some might think you are referring to a particular cartoon character. Others may have heard the name associated with computers. Still others will know that it's an operating system, but think it's one that's only used by programmers.

The primary benefits of open source lie, not surprisingly, in its openness. Being freely available lowers the costs of acquisition, but more importantly, with the right to see and modify the code, companies find themselves in the unique position of being able to tailor their software to the way they run their business.

Operating system vendors were given two months notice before a serious security flaw was made public but some have yet to resolve the issue, a security researcher has claimed.

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EarthLink, the nation's next generation Internet service provider, and Microtel Computer Systems today announced a limited-time offer for new EarthLink Premium Dial-Up Internet subscribers to receive a Microtel PC for $69.99 or a laptop for $399. New dial-up subscribers can receive the special Microtel pricing from May 25, 2005 - June 25, 2005, by going to http://www.microtelpc.com and placing an order for a $69.99 PC or $399 laptop.

The European Union is putting money toward research into open-source software and standards across the world.

DistroWatch reports - The Monoppix live CD has been upgraded to version 1.0.6: "Stack upgrade release of Monoppix version 1.0.6. What's new in this release: Monodoc, mcs, Mono, libgdiplus, gtk-sharp 1.06; Xsp 1.0.8; Monodevelop 0.51; Cairo 0.2; included DotNetSamples document; improved desktop links." Monoppix is a Knoppix-based live CD Linux distribution created with the goal to showcase and spread Mono technology, a free .NET framework implementation to Linux/UNIX operating systems.

Roiy from Monoppix sent us at OSDir some interesting screenshots of their recent 1.0.0.6 release.

Use of Linux on personal computers may not have made major inroads against leader Microsoft, but it has become prominent in conversations with information technology executives, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said Wednesday.

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the third milestone release of Jetspeed-2.

Jetspeed is an Enterprise Information Portal framework aiming to provide:

The Apache Portals Jetspeed Team is pleased to announce the final release of Jetspeed 1.6.

Enhydra team is proud to announce that first beta release of new Enhydra project (Enhydra Snapper) is published and can be downloaded from http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=188.

A growing rival to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, Linux is an open-source operating system, basic versions of which are available for no cost online, which programmers can freely modify. Last year, six government agencies, including the television education channel EBS and the Daejeon metropolitan government, moved to the Linux operating system under the ministry's open-source initiative.

Since 1993, Larry McVoy has been one of the closest allies to Linus Torvalds, creator of the open source Linux operating system.

David Berlind recently described the Microsoft Windows Media Juggernaut as "unstoppable." I’m inclined to agree. Microsoft has a stake in every media sector that matters, and has spent years working on spreading support for its formats throughout the hardware industry. Though I can’t say Microsoft has definitively won the race, no one else has all the pieces needed to build a media "ecosystem" to rival them.

BitDefender announced the launch of BitDefender Mail Protection for Small Business, an advanced content inspection solution, providing antivirus and antispam functionality, designed to function with any Linux distribution and mail server. The first public demonstration of the new product will take place at the CeBIT Australia trade show, in the BitDefender booth (N12, hall 3).