There’s no doubt Canonical’s popular Ubuntu Linux distribution gets the majority of attention in the Linux world these days, but there are myriad others equally worthy of consideration. I looked at Linux Mint not long ago, as well as a few key Ubuntu derivatives, but today I’d like to focus on Puppy Linux, a new [...]

Joomla 1.6 is designed to offer better site control and a more polished user experience. There are a variety of improvements to the software, enhancing website management and access, a more robust organizational structure for content control, and various other user-experience improvements throughout the software. “With new features and capabilities such as the hierarchical design [...]

The Apache Software Foundation is extending its breadth of open-source software projects to include a package of data-management middleware developed by the NASA U.S. government space agency. The Apache Object-Oriented Data Technology (OODT), first developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, is now an Apache Top Level Project, the organization announced Wednesday. OODT is an [...]

While much of the world’s focus was on the Consumer Electronics Show Wednesday, Linux creator Linus Torvalds quietly released the next version of the Linux kernel. Included among the improvements in Linux 2.6.37 are better symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) scalability, an option to compile the kernel with the Big Kernel Lock disabled, improved security, and many [...]

The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems. Among the improvements are an adjustment to the way the kernel supports the ext4 and XFS file systems, making them more suitable for SMP duties. The software also includes a number [...]

After nearly three years of development, Drupal 7.0 is officially available. The latest release of the open source content management system that powers high profile websites like WhiteHouse.gov features a revamped admin interface, more flexibility options for content and more optimized code. Drupal founder and project leader Dries Buytaert estimates that approximately 1,000 people contributed [...]

There’s been a rumor circulating for a few weeks now of an Ubuntu-powered tablet computer in the works, and recently several leaked photos and specs have emerged offering more detail on the intriguing device. Reportedly under development at Taiwanese firm Tenq, the forthcoming model P07 is apparently a 10-inch tablet featuring multitouch capabilities and running [...]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Mozilla’s Firefox browser has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the leader in Europe, the first time Microsoft’s browser has lost its top spot in a major market, a web analytics firm StatCounter said. In December, the open-source Firefox took 38.1 percent of European market share, while Internet Explorer’s share slipped to 37.5 [...]

The newest version of the open source JBoss Application Server has been released, and is now one of the first production-ready app servers to support Java EE 6. Java EE 6 is the newest version of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition, which was designed to build enterprise applications with the Java programming language and related [...]

One of the best features of the open source Linux operating system is that there are so many distributions to choose from. Ubuntu gets by far the lion’s share of the media’s attention, it’s true–largely by virtue of its top ranking at the top of DistroWatch’s popularity list–but there are hundreds of other options out [...]