Why should you be interested? Well, instead of Windows, it comes installed with gOS, which is a version of Ubuntu that is customized to work well with web-based tools from Google, Facebook, and Skype. When I heard that, I had to order one of these PCs to check it out for myself. :)...In this post, I’m just covering the unboxing.

"Last week, the Perl Foundation announced that the Mozilla Foundation has awarded a development grant to Patrick Michaud to work on the Perl 6 on Parrot compiler. Thank you, Mozilla Foundation..."

"After many months of hard work by a variety of parties, the new Spread Firefox has finally arrived (in beta form…the full-on launch will follow before long). Although there’s still more to be done, we all feel like this is a big step forward for SFx and our open source marketing efforts..."
http://newsfx.spreadfirefox.com/

"The CouchDB development team is proud to announce CouchDB version 0.7.0 is now available at http://code.google.com/p/couchdb/downloads/list ..."

Information Week has published a fawning interview with Microsoft’s Bill Hilf (right), now general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, stating he was “revealing” the company’s open source strategy.

Supporters of the open access movement (OA), the open-source-inspired community that promotes free access to academic research, are disappointed but not discouraged by the defeat of a bill that would have required research published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States to be available to the public.

Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPSI - News), a leading provider of healthcare information solutions, today announced the migration of the CPSI healthcare information system to the Linux operating system.

Microsoft and industry body the Computing Technology Industry Association have teamed up to drive the adoption of Office Open XML in the Philippines.