An Open Source Blog

In news just out today: Microsoft will be selling phones based on merging the best features of Windows Phone 7 with the Android Honeycom...

There is a very useful article that goes into the different aspects of openness , as it relates to codecs - especial those associated with i...

Google is dropping support for H.264 in its Chrome browser, preferring to put more effort in free codecs like WebM, as Google sees that H....

To have the safest browsing experience, you can run Firefox in a 'sandbox'. But first you have to: install Fedora 14 (not tested ...

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) made false claims to the EU Commission, and the Free Software Alliance Europe (FSAE) has provided an a...

The source of PostgreSQL 9.0.1 can be downloaded now. Note that at the time of writing, it had not been formally announced. The Release No...

The Blender crowd used the process of making a demo (called 'Sintel') of what Blender can do, to not only publicise the software,...

There is more evidence that Oracle is not to be trusted with being in charge of an Open Source project: Oracle plans to stop distributing on...

The key OpenSolaris people have banded together to form a new organisation to promote OpenSolaris under a new name 'illuminos', acco...

The arrogance of Oracle has more than just annoyed people. The actions of Oracle: in ignoring their responsibilities to OpenSolaris , and ca...

It appears that the number of jobs for PostgreSQL and MySQL are increasing at a fast rate , especially when compared to Oracle! I am keep fi...

I should have posted this to another blog about Science , with sometimes a New Zealand perspective. So I have transferred the actual content...

I was very surprised to find that all the Slashdot comments, rated 4 and 5, were very positive and knowledgeable about PostgreSQL . I knew...

There is a good overview of the features of Postgres 9.0.0 . For the remaining Java developers, a new JDBC package has been released for Po...

Note that this release of PostgreSQL includes many substantive performance enhancements and features to improve management plus it has 2 ke...

IBM is a big multi-national corporation, yet it was able to learn how to exffectivel;y contribute to the Linux kernel. Here is a good descr...