Open source Lucene threatens Microsoft, Google enterprise search. Interest in Lucene and Solr is skyrocketing, as measured by job postings.

Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline. Why is the GPL still considered the bottom of the open source incline, and not, say, the Apache license?

Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability "self-inflicted." The bug could be used to hijack a machine running the company's newest browser.

Embedded Linux achieves one-second boot time. MontaVista Software announced and showed a dashboard application going from cold boot to operational in one second flat.

Boxee will blow you away. In many ways, the Boxee media center platform is much better than the original XBMC 9.04 RC.

An open source energy future? Energy Secretary Stephen Chu has seen our energy future and says it’s open source.

Internet Explorer market share plummeting--or is it? Did it drop more precipitously in June than people think?

Ultimate Firefox productivity tips, for geeks. Using keywords, and keyboard shortcuts.

Apple wary of Ogg Theora: No agreement yet on HTML 5 video standard. Firefox 3.5 and Chrome already support the new video tag of the HTML 5 specification.

A comparison of open source search engines. Here are benchmark tests for Lucene, Xapian, zettair, sqlite, and sphinx.

We've covered Acquia, which delivers commercial support for the powerful Drupal content management system a number of times. Acquia also delivers its own distribution of Drupal, and the company's co-founder (and also founder of Drupal) Dries Buytaert has now announced that the company has come out of beta testing with its version of Acquia Search. It's available at no cost as part of every Acquia Network subscription. If you're looking for a free, open source tool to run a web site, and need solid search and inexpensive support, the one-two punch that Drupal and Acquia offer may be just right for you.