DesktopLinux.com Staff

Two tech giants—Microsoft and Google—have clashed head-on in a few arenas recently: over leadership in the Internet search market, over the use of open-source software—even over employees, like Kai-Fu Lee. Now comes the real test of superiority: the Golden Penguin Bowl. The open-source trivia contest is set for Aug. 9 at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo […]

DesktopLinux.com had questions, and 3,841 readers chimed in with their answers. Weve gathered the data on distributions, window managers, e-mail clients, Web browsers and more in the 2004 Desktop Linux Market survey—and some of the results are surprising! Please note that while we make every effort to increase result validity by limiting responses to a […]

Adobe has made a download of the Linux version of Adobe Reader 7.0 available on its ftp site. The newly renamed utility handles PDFs deftly, and additionally now allows users to collaborate on projects and provides additional file security at the server level, according to Adobe. Adobe Systems Inc. briefly offered a prerelease of the […]

MEPIS has announced the release of beta 04 of ProMEPIS Linux, based on Linux kernel 2.6.10. The new kernel adds “many hardware and performance improvements, yet it comes at a price,” according to MEPIS developer Warren Woodford. What price? “MEPIS was slow to introduce a newer kernel due to instabilities caused by restrictive policy and […]

Adobe Systems has released an update to its popular, freely available document reader software. The newly renamed “Adobe Reader 7.0” now allows users to collaborate on projects and provides additional file security at the server level. And unlike version 6, the latest release supports Linux. Enterprises that desire greater flexibility—including the ability to view, change, […]

The Open Source Development Labs on Wednesday unveiled key findings from a newly completed IDC market study, projecting that the overall revenue for desktops, servers, and packaged software running on Linux will exceed $35 billion by 2008. A summary of the study is available as a free download. “This is the first authoritative and comprehensive […]

BEA Systems Inc., Iona Technologies Corp. and iWay Software are showing that there are more options to developers looking to present their applications as Web services than the highly publicized .Net model from Microsoft Corp. Each of these developers is rolling out Web services tools that should provide faster, more cost-effective integration of disparate IS. […]