I found a really cool story here.
Turns out that the Fedora Project is rolling out a new system called “Fedora Talk” that allows contributors to sign in using standard VoIP hardware and software to talk to other Fedora contributors.  I think this is a really cool idea and a great application of VoIP technologies.  While [...]

Just caught this article as I was reading technology news this morning.  Apparently, Best Buy will soon be selling Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a retail box, with manual, quick start guide, and 2 months of support, all for $19.99.  It certainly beats the pants off of the pricing for Vista.
Ubuntu has made some excellent progress [...]

Michael and I very often browse Reddit for interesting articles on all sorts of topics, including computer science and IT.  Today, I was looking through Programming Reddit as usual and the link at the top of the front page was to this site.  Reddit has made their code available through a public git repository and [...]

Alfresco and Ingres recently announced a partnership, the first product of which is an all-in-one installer with GUI that installs Apache Tomcat, Java, Ingres, and Alfresco. This gives developers and end users a very easy way to get started with the two technologies, which together form a fully enterprise-ready open source content management solution.
We [...]

Sun recently acquired MySQL, a gutsy move that some might interpret as a slap in the face to Oracle. Oracle’s database has been a key part of enterprise Java software stacks for a long time and, until this point, a relational database was one of the few things that Sun did not directly provide [...]

Michael and I recently read this article on a relatively new project at Sun: “a royalty-free and open video codec and media system”.
There is much debate among members of the W3C about what codec should be the standard for embedded video on the Internet. The W3C has insisted that any video codec standard for [...]