Linus Torvalds quietly released another update to the Linux kernel over the weekend that offers better support for kernel-based virtual machines, a kernel debugger, improved webcam support and new support for the One Laptop Per Child architecture.

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Mozilla is currently deep in the heart of its celebration over officially setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads (8 M) in 24 hours for its Firefox 3 browser. But the company isnt cheering alone ? its enjoying this victory with the community it rightfully credits for helping it to succeed.

Mozilla Parties Mozilla Party Central, a bit of a mashup of Google Maps and Upcoming, is where the company shares news about its launch parties and also gives users the tools to promote and host their own parties. As of last count there have been…

Microsoft hopes to fill the big shoes of Bill Gates vision and power with social media efforts of employee bloggers… Microsofts situation is no different from that of any other large technology company. In a rapidly changing social media-centric world, even the largest companies can communicate personally,?

Regardless whether or not Gates, still the companys chairman and largest shareholder, remains involved on the backend Microsoft needs to develop a stronger accessible community presence for its consumer and B2B customers. The who? is less…

Associated Press upset many people with its new policy of restricting the use of its news stories in blogs and other web sites. Tom Foremski came up with an interesting proposal that could benefit anyone whocreates content that is re-used or quoted by others.

And maybe AP could provide a choice of adtribution links, which might include some public service ads. At least that would be a way AP could have its cake (the massive distribution platform of the Internet) and also recover some of the…

The call comes complete with a whitepaper on the Linux driver market, a Q&A on the issue, and an essay by technical board chair James Bottomley on Linux graphics. The Q&A notes the foundation is making no legal claims in its statement.

The call comes complete with a whitepaper on the Linux driver market, a Q&A on the issue, and an essay by technical board chair James Bottomley on Linux graphics. The Q&A notes the foundation is making no legal claims in its…

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Contrary to some reports, everything that makes Android Android?, including all the core platform components and libraries needed to port Android to new devices will be open sourced under commonly used, industry standard licenses, says Google.

A Google employee I talked to felt the need to apologize for this. “We’re not holding it back for any nefarious purpose,” says Dick Wall on the Android team. “We’re simply not ready to publish the…

Windows developers confirm a recent survey that finds most are sticking with XP–and explain.

And why shouldn't they be? According to data released this spring by migration software vendor AppDNA Ltd., about a fifth of enterprise applications running on XP break when moved straight to Vista, mostly due to pre-XP-era code still…

Workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones — and unhappy with Windows — are demanding Macs at the office. And bosses are saying yes more often than ever before. Is business ready? Is Apple?

What's less obvious is that the enthusiasm is starting to spill over into the corporate market. It's a people's revolution, of sorts, with workers increasingly pressing their employers to let them use Macs in the office. In a survey of…

“Shuttleworth, meanwhile, is just the kind of high-profile entrepreneur open source needs to move forward. The British press treats him as a sort of Richard Branson for the 21st century and he seems to delight in the attention.”

Shuttleworth recently told the BBC that the Microhoo deal is really good, because it will bring thousands of open source advocates to Redmond. Business is great, people are wonderful, the world is beautiful, and has he told you yet about his space…

“Ksplice is an interesting open source project out of MIT that automates the process of applying security patches to the Linux kernel without rebooting the system, and its getting notice by the Linux Foundation.”

Top kernel developer and Linux Foundation fellow Ted Ts’o said the Ksplice software is much needed by telecommunications providers and anyone who hates downtime. “It allows you to hot patch the Linux kernel with a security…

Amazon loves to talk about its Web Services because it positions the company as a bold innovator bringing cloud computing to the unwashed masses and other companies still stuck in the land of legacy data centers. But it is coy when it comes to details about the actual business behind Amazon Web Services, which includes its S3 storage service…

This is not a big surprise to me. Last year sometime, at some random geeky event, I was explaining why I thought AWS was so cool, and one of the people I was explaining it to worked for a local insurance company, and he got very excited….

From the MySQL User's Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base. Sun will begin with close sourcing the backup solutions to MySQL, and will continue with more advanced features.

The bottom line is, Sun’s got to make money with MySQL, so they can pay folks to both develop and support MySQL. Having gone that route once or twice before with companies, it seems as if Sun is trying to make it a win-win deal -…