Stories about: Finish Line

Some of the most oft-repeated comments attributed to Bill Gates through the years were not uttered by Bill Gates. Take for instance "640K ought to be enough for anybody," which he supposedly said in 1981 to note that the 640K bytes of memory in IBM's PC was a significant breakthrough. Or his alleged comment that if General Motors "had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving [US]$25 cars that got 1,000 miles per gallon."

At the annual running of the Boston Marathon most spectators focus their attention on the runners, but behind the scenes is a vast array of technology that ensures everything runs smoothly.

At the Cebit trade show, DS2 and Devolo are showing faster power line networks, supporting speeds of up to 400M bps (bits per second) -- twice the maximum capacity that the technology provides today.

Starting this week, Red Hat's open-source, community-supported Fedora Linux project is becoming even more open, with the release of its Fedora 7 Linux operating system.

Melbourne has pipped Hobart at the post to become the successful bidding team for the 2008 Free and Open Source Software conference, linux.conf.au (LCA).

Those who write for, support, install and maintain the widely used open source MySQL database platform will be interested in the first release candidate of the forthcoming MySQL 5.0, launched this month.

Preaching the virtues of free software for two decades has not dimmed the enthusiasm of Richard Stallman, as audiences across Australia discovered last week.

It's been more than four years since Web browser vendor Netscape Communications Corp. released its source code in early 1998 and created the Mozilla.org open-source community to work on the development of future browsers.