A fully native VLC for Windows 8 is coming if they have a successful round of funding on Kickstarter. The app will feature everything from current releases as well some added extras. More...

XBMC has just been released for the Android platform. The application is essentially the best open-source media center application which offers a number of customizable options. More...

Sun Microsystems will plunk down $1 billion to buy MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said Wednesday that it will pay about $800 million in cash for MySQL's privately held stock and... More...

The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software - freely distributed programs that anyone can modify - the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.... More...

Does the world need open-source search tools? The people at Wikipedia think so. The folks behind the public encyclopedia have launched Wikia, a project to develop a search engine, crawlers and other... More...

According to a post over at Gmane.org, AMD engineer Yinghai Lu has reportedly released source-code of the BIOS for the Gigabyte Technology M57SLI-S4 motherboard. This can potentially allow advanced users to "program their motherboards" by... More...

Several Cuban government ministers backed the move to open-source software, and away from U.S.-based Microsoft, at a technology conference held late last week. Communications minister Ramiro Valdes gave an opening keynote that advocated open source,... More...

The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open-source software, it was revealed this week. But the Commission was swayed into allowing a 10-day period for feedback before... More...

French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian 15 and 16 year-old high school students at the start of the next school year. The open source software (web... More...

An open-source group mocked Microsoft on a newly launched Web site dubbed BadVista.org and claimed the Windows operating system is a "power grab" to steal control over users' computers. The Free Software Foundation's campaign will... More...

According to sources inside Sun, an ongoing debate over whether to open-source Java is coming to a head with the JavaOne conference looming May 16. New Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who led the open-sourcing... More...

IBM and Novell on Monday are expected to announce an open-source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology. The companies plan to contribute to an open-source initiative code-named Higgins Project. The... More...

Dell began offering a new desktop PC on Tuesday with no operating system installed. The machine is designed for people who want to run open-source software such as Linux instead of Windows. ... More...

Sun Microsystems is expected to release Solaris as open-source software Tuesday; the move is a centerpiece of the company's plan to regain lost relevance and fend off rivals Red Hat, IBM and Microsoft. ... More...

Two years after it selected open-source rendering engine KHTML as the basis of its Safari Web browser, Apple Computer has proposed resolving compatibility conflicts by scrapping that code base in favor of its own. ... More...

Microsoft Corp. has extended an olive branch to the open-source community, calling for a sit-down to discuss how the software giant can better work with the open-source world. But don't expect to see an open-sourced... More...

Members of the open-source community are expressing concern over rapid feature changes in the Linux 2.6 kernel, which they say are too focused on the desktop and could make the kernel too large. Sam Greenblatt,... More...

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC. Almost all open-source software is built... More...

When Sun Microsystems releases Solaris as open-source software, it plans to provide legal protection from patent-infringement suits to outsiders using or developing the operating system--one of several ways Sun hopes to make Solaris more competitive... More...

The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology. The three-year project will support programmers at chipmaker Intel and InfiniBand... More...

With the growing use of open-source software, businesses may find themselves using someone else's intellectual property without knowing it. While it's never been a smart business move to use someone else's intellectual... More...

The next release of the MyQSL database server will include a Windows installer based on an open-source toolset released by Microsoft earlier this year. The upcoming MySQL 4.1 release will, according to documentation on the... More...

A team of computer industry veterans, including a former Microsoft executive, are launching an open-source company that aims to be the Dell of the software industry. The company, called SourceLabs, will provide... More...

Users of one of the best SPAM filters SpamAssassin may want to take a look at the license this time around in the new version 3.0. Because SpamAssassin has now adopted Apache's License. ... More...

Going by early feedback, the open-sourcing of IBM's Cloudscape Java database is putting the open-source community on cloud nine. Noel Bergman, chief technology officer at DevTech Inc. and an Apache Software Foundation... More...

At the Black Hat security conference HD Moore unveiled the release of his Metasploit Framework. This exploit tools is designed to quickly take over a variety of target platforms. Hey it's even available... More...

After three years Miguel de Icaza has something to show for his hard work. He has managed to bring some of Microsoft's programming tools over to Linux. While Microsoft isn't overly thrilled about... More...

In another twist of events HP has signed an agreement to sell Sendmail's e-mail software. This comes as another blow to Microsoft from its longtime ally. Up till now HP has sold only... More...

Yesterday some security researches found six flaws in Concurrent Versions System (CVS) one of the open-source community's most popular programs for marinating code under development. Some of the most popular open-source projects use CVS.... More...

Hewlett-Packard is set to announce plans Tuesday to expand its support for open-source software. The computing giant will certify and support MySQL, the leading open-source database program, and JBoss, a popular Java-based application server, on... More...

Novell has launched a test release of an open-source project that recreates Microsoft's .Net programming framework on Linux and Unix. Novell inherited the Mono project through its acquisition of open-source software maker... More...

MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another... More...

Sun Microsystems Inc. appears to be seriously considering industry advocates' proposals that it should offer an open-source implementation of Java. In addition to an impending meeting with IBM—which called on Sun to think about open-sourcing... More...

In response to an open letter from IBM asking Sun Microsystems Inc. to join the company in developing an open-source version of Java, Sun plans to meet with IBM to discuss the issue, Sun sources... More...

A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java.... More...

Open-source activists gathered at LinuxWorld Expo late last week to protest what they say are anti-Linux campaigns being spearheaded on Capitol Hill by rivals the SCO Group and Microsoft. Thursday evening, Linux lobbyists, academics, programmers... More...

The open-source community is rallying against comments made by The SCO Group CEO Darl McBride late last month that the GPL, under which Linux and open-source software is distributed, violates the U.S. Constitution as well... More...

The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a survey released Monday by research company Evans Data. Usage of MySQL for developing applications rose 30 percent over... More...

ObjectWeb and the Apache Software Foundation, which each develop an open-source Java application server, have reached a technology sharing agreement designed to accelerate certification of their products under Sun Microsystems Inc.'s latest Java 2 Enterprise... More...

Although Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities get most of the headlines, researchers this week identified vulnerabilities in two commonly used open-source software products. The more serious of the vulnerabilities affects Sendmail, an open-source program for... More...

Open-source software supporters need to do a better job of policing themselves as developers and activists, according to Darl McBride, CEO of controversial Unix seller SCO Group. In an "open letter to... More...

Munir Kotadia: Microsoft has killed off Windows NT, but it should now release its source code to the open-source community in order to fight off the challenge from Linux. On 30 June,... More...

Sun Microsystems has donated to the open-source Grid Engine Project its Grid Engine Portal software, which is designed to let users access resources and applications on a Sun-based computing grid from virtually any Web browser.... More...

To encourage the broadest possible support for its forthcoming "Storage Tank" technology, IBM will release an open-source version of the software needed to let servers tap into the next-generation storage system. Big Blue is working... More...

Memo to Bill Gates: What a mess. Less than a week after a court-approved deal ended the antitrust case, Microsoft was back in the spotlight. The latest Halloween memo portrayed your company as utterly obsessed... More...

Conectiva, one of the four members contributing to the upcoming UnitedLinux operating system distribution, has moved to reassure developers that the consortium is following standard open-source practices, despite the introduction of a "closed" test version... More...

Thanks to Sleeper for this Corel has announced it is officially shutting down its open-source software development site as of March 1. Canada-based Corel informed developers of the move in a brief note... More...