Motorola will preview native Linux and Webkit widget development tools for mobile phones this quarter, it said. Additionally, at JavaOne this week, the handset vendor launched updated Java ME (Micro Edition) tools, and announced a beta release of Symbian UIQ development tools.

We like to keep a close eye on Linux desktop distribution alphas and betas so we can give you the goods and show you what is coming long before the official release. When the openSUSE community announced the availability of openSUSE 11 beta 2 this weekend, we knew that we had to give it a spin.

It's quite characteristic of the cultural cringe that prevails in Australia that a man who works in America, Barry Vercoe, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is coming to the country next week to lobby for the local branch of the One Laptop Per Child project.

Seems like ATI/AMD did the absolute right thing with opening up their drivers and/or hardware specs, following the good example of Intel. The good news of the day are:

This comprehensive guide discusses where to get, how to install, and how to use the various cryptography packages available to enhance the security of your PHP applications.

UPDATED: Open source has the adherents and the contributors, but what about the income? Patience, say the developers.

The first issue (2nd volume) of THE *NIXED REPORT is now available at the introductory price of $1.95 USD. This issue contains the following:

Linux is an Open-Source Operating System (OS). It was first created by Finnish grad student Linus Torvalds in 1991.