There are lots of sites that offer streaming audio and video services these days... Downloading these streams so you can save them for later is almost always possible... One of the ways you can dump this type of stream to your computer is to use the media player Mplayer.

This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free software entrepreneurs. The opening keynote was delivered by Red Hat’s freshly minted CEO Jim Whitehurst who gave a very modest speech noting that while Red Hat has been a leading open source company they have not necessarily been an open source leader.

With the rare exception, most of the open source database vendors have declined to storm the castle, believing - correctly - that they were not in a position to compete effectively in such markets.

Here is a quick list of 10 Linux books you must own as a Linux user.

No, it's not an April fish (Poisson d'avril) or a Belgian story that illustrate the difference between free software and open source :-)

Open-source and free software fans who despise software patents shouldn't look for an ally in the head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent Commissioner Jon Dudas says his office is all about staying "technology neutral," so long as the invention meets certain standards.

"Dreamlinux Desktop Edition 3.0 is a complete redesign of the distro, now supporting a totally independent architecture named Flexiboost, based on overlaid modules..." -- via http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04820

Viewing and manipulating the structure of an OpenOffice Writer document with the useful Navigator tool.