A gaping hole has been discovered in the GNU General Public License, the legal document at the heart of open source, and Sun has driven a Mack truck named Solaris x86 straight through it.

Visually impaired Linux users can expect their very own seeing-eye penguin, courtesy of Project Ocularis, a Linux distribution that allows sight-free operation.

A gaping hole has been discovered in the GNU General Public License, the legal document at the heart of open source, and Sun has driven a Mack truck named Solaris x86 straight through it.

Intel's investment in MontaVista Software will help advance Linux technology and products for embedded computing devices that use the XScale chip.

It may take time, but Linux's reputation and qualities could lead to further initiatives backing the OS. This would generate enough free publicity to enable Linux to continue it's rise to widespread acceptance.

Intel has released the first Linux version of its Open Source Computer Vision Library. The Open Source Computer Vision Library provides a wide range of functions that will help researchers develop ways to use computer vision as a method for people to interact with computers.

Companies opening their source code have gained much popularity and publicity because of the Linux revolution.

Red Hat completed the acquisition of privately-held C2Net Software for approximately $42.7 million. C2Net's Stronghold is the most popular commercial SSL Web server on the Internet with more than 30 percent of the secure web server market.

Wireless is hot among developers now," said Janel Garvin, VP of Research at Evans Data, "but this increase among Linux developers is astounding.

The OSS model is working for bigger projects such as the Linux kernel and other major applications like Apache, BIND, etc. However, it's failing with newer projects as individual applications result due to people unwilling to contribute to other people's work.