http://www.computerworld.com.au Linux & Open Source by Computerworld en-us Copyright 2008, IDG Communications, for personal use only, not for redistribution without permission. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:30:04 +1000 60 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1505132880&rid=-219 You knew the argument had to come up sometime: survive the economic down turn by using open source to help you save money. Now Computer World's Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols makes that claim in Linux Will Save Us'. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:22:32 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1075247235&rid=-219 In case you haven't noticed, the economy is collapsing. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:03:34 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=372955294&rid=-219 Have you ever experienced a software bug and thought to yourself, "I could fix that"? If you could, would you? How could that even be possible? Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:29:35 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=288259918&rid=-219 At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003, The SCO Group imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell and others would pay it large amounts of cash for alleged infringements on SCO-owned Unix code. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:24:43 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1090427021&rid=-219 One of the fundamental data structures in the networking subsystem is the transmit queue associated with each device. The core networking code will call a driver's hard_start_xmit() function to let the driver know that a packet is ready for transmission; it is then the driver's job to feed that packet into the hardware's transmit queue. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:04:29 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=743357871&rid=-219 Last week I began to discuss a remarkable virtual-appliance-based system for network monitoring and management called Groundwork Monitor Community Edition. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:51:57 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1715634197&rid=-219 A Google employee working on the Android mobile phone operating system made a gaffe that has some developers saying they've had enough and plan to focus their efforts on the iPhone, instead of Android. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:20:44 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=80799320&rid=-219 Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, taking the unusual step of updating the older version 2.0 on Tuesday but delaying the fixes for the newer version 3.0 until Wednesday. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:22:00 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=279757776&rid=-219 There are few pieces of software that users touch more often than office productivity suites. The market monster is, of course, Microsoft Office, with the lion's share of all licenses for office productivity tools. But two trends -- open source and cloud computing -- are offering a new generation of Office alternatives that businesses may want to consider. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:41:06 +1000 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1427845850&rid=-219 Multimedia software maker CyberLink sees a lot of opportunities in the fast-growing netbook segment of the computer market, from online access to files stored on home PCs to multimedia software made for Linux OSs. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:28:11 +1000