Open-source music format ready to play
After a year in the works, the Ogg Vorbis open-source music format launches this weekend. It sounds better than rival MP3, say the developers--and there's no royalties.
After a year in the works, the Ogg Vorbis open-source music format launches this weekend. It sounds better than rival MP3, say the developers--and there's no royalties.
Sun seemingly was not prepared for the flood of developers attempting to download the open-source version of StarOffice, which Sun made available on Friday on the www.openoffice.
Here's a lesson I learned back when I was knee-high to a Wang: When writing in a public forum, avoid giving readers the impression that you're denigrating their religion, Canadian citizenship or platform preference.
A split in the open-source ranks at Sambarekindles fears about the potential pitfalls and perils offorking Linux. Full story.
Firefox 58 brings faster page loads thanks to a new compiler and streaming compilation, reports Mozilla.
Just because you can get the source code to Sun's StarOffice doesn't necessarily mean you're going to want it. The sheer volume of the code requires more than 3 gigabytes of hard disk space in which to build, and compiles have been reported to take more than 20 hours to complete.
In a major upheaval in the open-source software market, Wind River Systems has acquired Berkeley Software Design's version of Unix, merging the realms of proprietary and freely shared software. But Wind River likes the BSDi software as much for its open-source nature as the fact that it doesn't have to stay open source.
Sun Microsystems Inc. is billing it as the biggest project in open source history.
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) are expected to invest increasingly in Linux and open source technologies over the next five years. Growth will be particularly strong in key Asian and European markets where public government endorsements and policies are boosting visibility for Linux and open source.
Support for open source technologies from mainstream suppliers such as IBM and Sun has boosted the number of financial institutions using Linux from 27% last year to 58% in 2005, according to a report from financial technology researchers Finextra.
