Former Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps is joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board effective April 1st.

There's no moss growing on StatusNet these days. The company has been busy announcing cloud service plans, an enterprise network service, and the 0.9 release...

Since early this week, when Microsoft started rolling out its "Browser Ballot," Opera has seen its downloads triple in response.

Somebody better tell Microsoft that it's still March, because the suggestion of an "Internet usage tax" to fight Windows-powered botnets must be an April Fool's...

Brian Proffitt recently tackled the topic of distro-hopping over on LinuxPlanet.

StatusNet is taking microblogs to the enterprise, launching the StatusNet Enterprise Network (SEN) today to manage microblog servers for corporate customers.

The SIMILE Widgets project has four nifty tools for Web developers who want to provide data visualization or to create exhibits from pictures, with minimal...

The Hobo team has popped the cork on Hobo 1.0, a mere three years after its original beta release.

Active Systems has released the first public beta of OpenNode, a CentOS based distro that is designed to make it easier to run virtual machines...

The Banshee Project is working on making it easier for developers to make extensions and get them to users.

The Eucalyptus Project has reached a major milestone this week with the 1.6.2 release.

What do you get when you cross business logic and 80s arcade video games?

News is making the rounds that Twitter has put up a directory showing all the open source projects it loves, which in real terms means...

Ever wonder whether a given FLOSS project is going to succeed or flounder?

WordPress users rejoice! The latest release of BuddyPress finally brings all that social media goodness to standard WordPress installs.