Yahoo has shifted its Toolbar for Mozilla's Firefox out of beta and into final form as it posted the add-on to its site for download.

On Monday, Black Duck Software Inc., a leading provider of software compliance management solutions, and SourceForge.net, one of the world's largest open-source collaborative development sites, will announce that Black Duck will be able to use SourceForge's program repository to make its software compliance program more efficient.

You can use open source software to make yourself more productive, but the open source community has also produced some impressive game titles, such as Freeciv, Vega Strike, and Flight Simulator.

Open Source adoption among developers is expected to grow at a faster pace in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) than in North America.

Are you a Fedora Linux user that wants to contribute to the community but don't know how?

The popular HTML editor Quanta will soon be available from KDevelop in the form of a set of plug-ins.

Redmond's decision to mandate a piracy check for all customers who want to download add-ons for Windows XP -- excluding security patches -- is designed to check what the company regards as rampant illicit use of its software.

I know you are waiting with eager anticipation, because today is the day Novell was to file its answer to SCO's slander of title complaint.

The same principals that brought the Linux operating system to the computer world are helping to propagate a new generation of computer hardware.

IDG World Expo, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for technology markets, today announced that The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the premier Linux certification organization worldwide (http://www.lpi.org), will offer free Linux certification testing at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(R) in San Francisco, taking place August 8-11, 2005 at Moscone Center West.

Underdog web browser Mozilla has taken large steps in regaining market share for it’s grandfather, Netscape, in the name of Firefox.

The Kubuntu team is proud to announce a new Kubuntu livecd

Whax isn't long out of beta stage, but there are already plenty of reviews popping up. most of them however are sparse, and merely explain that Whax is the evolution of Whoppix,

There seems to be a common pitfall among some PHP developers--especially those just beginning PHP programming--and that is their lack of object-oriented (OO) PHP use.

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday devoted an entire 40-minute session at its annual financial day here to the competitive threat posed to its business by open source software and Linux.

Developers now have their hands on the first IE 7 beta, and at first glance it has better security and some rather familiar Firefox features.

Even if you're the most dedicated OpenOffice.org (OOo) user in the world, sooner or later you'll be asked to share files with someone using Microsoft Office.

Asterisk, the open source private branch exchange (PBX) from Digium, has the power to change the telecommunications industry in much the same way that Linux is changing the operating systems market, but it needed work to simplify installation and configuration.

Distrowatch reports - Mutagenix 2.6.11.8-1 live CD suite now available. Features: Rescue, Freerock GNOME, Gware GNOME, and KDE ISOs; starts automatically as a DHCP client; integrated firewall which auto starts on DHCP networks in stealth mode; slapt-get, with multiple rc files with different sources, is included; cpan2tgz for automatically downloading and installing Perl modules; script to install Mutagenix to a hard drive; simplified modem dial-up script; ClamAV antivirus program for scanning your nasty windows partitions....

OSDir has some nice screenshots of the latest Mutagenix release.

KDE announced - The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.4.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.4.2 ships with a basic desktop and fifteen other packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more).

OSDir has the shots of this fresh KDE update.

Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser.

For the "bleeding edge," the FreeDOS distribution GNU/DOS 2005 has had 15 software updates so far, including those dealing with speed and bug fixes,

This coming Tuesday evening at OSCON Google and O'Reilly will be presenting the first annual Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards.

Join your fellow developers, and open source enthusiasts, in saluting individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to open source in the past year.

At ZDNet, we often ask how Linux will ever crack the home market.

Kenosha, a city of about 100,000, was on the bleeding edge when it began deploying Linux nearly a decade ago.

Australian public schools have an agreement with Microsoft, that entitles them to use the full suite of 'serious', school-related software from that company, for a nominal fee (nominal for the schools that is, there 'might' be hidden costs involved at higher level).

In this article I describe my experience with Mandrake/Mandriva and try to explain why it suits a starter in Linux and is still a usefull distro when you get more experience

Based on Debian Linux and promoted by Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu Linux has gained a loyal following since it's inception.

(Ubuntu 5.04 Screenshots by OSDir.com)

Registration has begun for those wanting to attend the first Open Source Desktop Workshop to be held on October 13th and 14th in San Diego, California!

Also known as 2.11.90, GNOME 2.12 Beta 1 is the first pre-release intended for wide public scrutiny before the final release in September.