Why is Google using Solr for search? The company has adopted the open source search server based on Apache Lucene for its All for Good site.

Australian defense force builds $1.7m Linux-based flight simulator. It runs on SUSE Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers, and uses an open source graphics platform.

Should open source hate Apple? The whole idea that the Free Software Foundation should go against Apple rather than Microsoft is a straw man.

7 reasons to use Debian. From stability to documentation, it's outstanding.

Four free, slick word processors. You can use these no matter what operating system you're running.

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.

Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal content management system and co-founder of Acquia, which provides commercial support and services for Drupal, has an interesting screencast posted on his blog. It illustrates some of the services that Acquia provides for sites that run Drupal, (as OStatic does), and features the company's Bryan House demonstrating search functionality for use with Drupal, based on Apache Solr. If you're running Drupal or are interested in running it, the screencast is worth watching.