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How to connect to a network share from the GNOME desktop

If you have other computers on your network that share folders, you'll want to know how to connect to them from your GNOME-based desktop.

May 8, 2023 by Jack Wallen

MS-DOS variant PC-MOS/386 reborn as open source

Want a blast from your floppy disk past? PC-MOS/386, a 30-year-old MS-DOS clone operating system, is back as open source.

October 23, 2017 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Microsoft's Office 2013 ODF 1.2 support could be true catalyst for OpenOffice adoption

Microsoft insists that it has built robust support for ODF 1.2 and PDF in Office 2013. It has offered support for ODF 1.1 in the last rev of Office but 1.2 support is said to offer better support for spreadsheet formulas. The next version of Office is due to launch later this year. How will OpenOffice backers respond with Microsoft Open XML support?

August 15, 2012 by Paula Rooney

Google's Lindholm dances around questions about Java licenses

After Google CEO Larry Page claimed that he isn't too familiar with him, Google software engineer Tim Lindholm took the stand in the IP trial against Oracle on Thursday.

April 19, 2012 by Rachel King

Complexity of Microsoft Exchange bites us again

Recently I've been involved with a migration from one Exchange 2010 server to another, and the project is still ongoing at the moment. I've written before about how overly complicated Exchange is, when compared to other open source mail server alternatives.

November 2, 2011 by Chris Clay Clay

Gates prepares return to witness stand

Some 13 years ago, a feisty, often condescending Bill Gates became the public face of a beleaguered Microsoft accused of breaking antitrust law.

October 17, 2011 by Charles Cooper

Windows/Linux driver support comparison

There have been debates of Windows and Linux over the years about supported hardware and device drivers. Mostly the debates have come down to these facts:- Support for hardware in Windows is excellent for hardware released around the same time for the version of Windows that it supports, since it is the dominant desktop OS and hardware manufacturers make sure that drivers are written.

April 7, 2011 by Chris Clay Clay

Does the "many eyes on the code" approach to open source development work?

Does the "many eyes on the code" approach that the open source community takes to software development, a process that is supposed to result in safer, more secure code, work? A recent post over on the OpenBSD mailing list casts some doubt over the effectiveness of the mechanism.

December 14, 2010 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

What Apache Wave means and does not mean

Google is waving bye-bye, and the question is whether Apache can breathe life into it.

November 25, 2010 by Dana Blankenhorn

Oracle v Google: the open source perspective

What does the open source community think of the Oracle v Google lawsuit. Some of the answers are predictable but there are many nuances to this game.

October 7, 2010 by Dennis Howlett