Fedora 7 is a first class distro that demonstrates solid progress in improving the user experience, easing the move to virtualization and enabling the user to create their own custom spins with open source build tools.
Sun's annual Java Developer Conference in San Francisco this May brought waves of technology announcements. There were lots of lights, camera and even action towards opening up Java.
In the short time that I've spent using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), I've really come to like it. The installation was painless, all my hardware was detected and configured correctly, package management was easy, and the clean-cut GNOME desktop is terrific.
The adoption of OSS and Open Standards can improve governance and help provide citizen services fairly and transparently. The State of Massachusetts recently adopted the OpenDocument Format (ODF) setting a landmark precedent to support open standards for all document exchange between the state and its customers — businesses, citizens and other government entities.
A review of the newly released Fedora Core 4 distribution.
In a high profile ceremony, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairman of the National Advisory Council of India, and Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology released a free CD of software containing Hindi language tools and fonts based on open source software in New Delhi this week. To the rousing applause of the audience, Thiru Maran asserted that this freely available office suite is in every way the equal of Microsoft Office.
As open source software matures into adolescence, we must surmount hurdles of our own making.
In Chennai, on April 15th, marking the Tamil New Year, India’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) showed off its latest efforts to help close India’s digital divide. A complete bundle of open source computer software including the localized Tamil version of OpenOffice.org was released. Hundreds of computer fonts and tools in Tamil were given away amid great fanfare and political and media excitement.
A review of Fedora Core 3, the latest offering from the Fedora Project.
Boxed in by falling market share, Sun needs to learn to fly with all players in the open source community.
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