Much of today’s internet is built on WordPress: there’s one wordpress site for every 101 people on the planet! It’s free and open-source, extendible as a platform for plugins, relatively secure and reliable. A large part of its success is based on the fact that it’s open source. Volunteer developers from all over the world contribute to its development. […]
Fine Gael TD Patrick O’Donovan has discovered that our way of life is under threat from anonymous internet users and their nasty “open source” browsers. But never fear, gentle citizens, he’s on the case. Anxious to be seen as a tech-savvy Guardian of All that is Good, Patrick appears to have spent about an hour […]
The Linux Foundation has released their latest report and also produced a nice little graphic to help illustrate it. Here are some of the headline numbers: Nearly 10,000 developers from more than 1,000 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since tracking began in 2005. Just since the last report, more than 1,100 developers from […]
Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” was released on Saturday. The latest version of Debian brings a number of new features to the open source operating system including “multiarch support”. Multiarch support means that you’ll be able to install both 32 bit and 64 bit software on the same machine without having to worry about dependencies ie. it’ll […]
Which Linux distributions are popular? Why do people use it? Who contributes the most to it? Pingdom have released a pretty slick infographic that answers these and other questions:
A Portuguese court has ruled that peer to peer sharing of music and films is legal. The decision was made public in the last couple of hours in the Portuguese tech press. From what I can understand the Portuguese court is upholding users’ right to make copies for personal use even if the source was […]
