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Phoenix offers faster boot times for laptops

Phoenix announced availability and pricing for its HyperSpace instant-on software for laptops.

| News | Open Source | Software | 01/08/09 at 2:02 pm |


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Vietnam pushes open-source software for government use

Vietnam's government will mandate use of several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country tries to reduce the use of pirated software.

| News | Government | Open Source | 01/08/09 at 1:55 pm |


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EMC buys parts of SourceLabs to bolster cloud strategy

In an attempt to bolster EMC's cloud computing business, the storage vendor has acquired assets from SourceLabs, a maker of support and management tools for Linux and open source software.

| News | Open Source | SaaS | 01/05/09 at 4:26 pm |


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Recording the Linux desktop -- the hard way

I can do many things with the greatest of ease on the Linux desktop. But, as I discovered while doing my community Linux overview, recording a Linux desktop video isn't one of them. Oh, boy, is it ever not one of them.

| Opinion | Open Source | Storage | 12/31/08 at 2:01 pm |


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