Opteron storms the server market

AMD, once considered a low-cost vendor of x86 clone chips, has passed something of a milestone. According to the latest figures from Mercury Research, the company now holds 11.2 per cent of the server market. ...more

Geocaching of the Apes

This summer's top blockbuster looks to be the remake of the classic sci-fi flick, Planet of the Apes. We've already had a sneaky peek at the online trailer of the movie, but now you can grab some great monkey memorabilia in an online competition. The only problem with the Planet of the Apes competition is that it isn't going to be easy, in fact it is going to be darn well impossible if you haven't got the right bit of kit. ...more

Europe's answer to Google goes into hiding

Europe's plans to whack Google with a search engine of its own have had the curtains drawn over them after a fury of speculation following a speech by France's Jaques Chirac. The Financial Times reports the French President in his New Year speech describing Project Quaero - Latin for 'I seek' - as a much needed answer to 'the global challenge posed by Google and Yahoo'. The initiative will be funded by government and private entities in France and Germany. ...more

KDE 2.0 moves to the centre of the Linux universe

A major new version of KDE - the Linux-based desktop environment - has been released. KDE 2.0, dubbed "Kopernicus", features a range of productivity tools, from Konqueror, which is a full featured web browser and file manager, to KOffice, an integrated office suite. ...more

SCO's move to court with Novell could spell end game

A new paper from the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) suggests that SCO's move to take on Novell in court over ownership of Unix throws that question into doubt and gives potential licencees for SCO's Unix IP licence every reason to wait out the case rather than succumb to SCO's threatening letters. The new paper - the third from the OSDL's Eben Moglen, who is the General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation - says that this could turn out to be the end game for SCO. Moglen writes that SCO 'has given the targets of its licensing campaign the clearest possible reason for remaining on the sidelines, and by doing so it has triggered the forces that are going to bring this nuisance to an end. ...more