Open-source spam filter ASSP has been upgraded with a much improved administration interface, Sender Policy Framework (SPF) support, SMTP session limits, IP connection limits and a much better statistics page for reporting on mail traffic.

CCW Research in Beijing released findings this week that open-source Linux software actually is more expensive than the Windows operating system.

Linux and Apache have changed the face of scaling and Internet serving forever. This brief article summarizes experiences with scaling and its essential ingredients for survival.

How would your employer feel if you spent between 10 and 20 percent of your time working on extracurricular open-source projects?

Red Hat Inc., the leading distributor of Linux software, on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings beat Wall Street projections as sales increased 46 percent from last year.

Are the software giant's recent attempts to reach out to the open source community genuine or just another example of its embrace, extend and extinguish strategy?

Sharing the stage at a panel at this year's World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the two men seemed like old friends. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Microsoft's cofounder Bill Gates smiled at each other and cordially agreed on a number of issues.

Measuring return on investment is always a tricky prospect. Properly assessing a software's future value and savings versus it's roll-out cost requires more than a peripheral knowledge of the software involved. This guide attempts to enable the reader to ask the right questions.

The general view of open source software is that it is free; however, as with many things in business, information technology is never that easy.

Everyone has been speculating, but will Google finally make the move to purchase Mozilla's FireFox?

Ten years ago, Sun Microsystems publicly debuted Java, a software that initially helped establish the company's forward-thinking reputation and that later spread to most corners of the computer industry.

Most of the time, an abundance of choice is a good thing. Who could argue against 31 flavors of ice cream or 57 varieties of condiments?

Dell is shipping the next generation Red Hat Enterprise Linux product (RHEL 4) across all currently shipping PowerEdge and SC servers.

OSoft.com, a leading provider of open source documentation solutions, announced today the exclusive release of The Samba3 Compendium by John H. Terpstra in the ThoutReader(TM) format.

PalmSource has shifted its engineering efforts to focus on development of Linux-based versions of its Palm OS software for mobile phones.

For the past several weeks, I've been running my home office LAN exclusively on SUSE 9.3 Professional. I found this latest version, released in March, to be an excellent implementation of the Linux operating system. It brings Linux's levels of ease of use and configurability to an all-time high.

If you've heard about Linux and feel like giving it a go or if you want to try Linux but you're too afraid it'll shew up your computer, this article is for you.

FlameRobin is an open source, lightweight and cross-platform GUI administration and management tool for the Firebird database. FlameRobin V0.2.5 Alpha is available for download.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself.

An introduction to Randall Hyde's project to help programmers write more readable and more powerful assembly language code.

Kim Polese believes that the remaining obstacles to making money with open source are dwindling away. And she ought to know.

European legislators who endorse software patents frequently claim that those wouldn't affect free software (or "open source"). Microsoft's lawyers are determined to prove they are mistaken.

Fedora Core 4 (FC4) has been released, and its time to get rid of the broken FC3.

"There's a lot of Linux hype in these markets, there's a lot of piracy in these markets, and Microsoft is trying to address the demand with a product at a lower price," said industry analyst Michael Silver.

Mandriva announces a new support contract with MACIF, a major European personal insurance company, with a total of 4.5 million subscribers.

I have been exploring the use of free Open Source software as an alternative to Microsoft Software for quite some time now. I have been using Open Office for about 8 months now for my word processing needs.

Novell Inc. announced Tuesday open beta availability of the latest version of its groupware program, Novell GroupWise 7.

Novell Inc.'s attempt to dismiss The SCO Group Inc.'s claims that Novell maliciously and falsely claimed Unix's copyrights has been denied, so the case will now move into the discovery phase—in which all the documentation will be examined to see who's right and who's not in the case.

People want to know what, exactly, can they get away with. To answer this, it's important to understand how violations of the GPL appear on the enforcement radar screen, so here is how: Somebody rats on you, usually your competitors or disgruntled employees.

Finally! I have been whining about this for so long now. It looks like enough other people finally got the clue and decided to put a great resource where people can come to learn about Linux.