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Switch on your computer and click on the web and you will use a browser to enter the site you want. Ninety per cent of computers come pre-packaged with Microsoft Explorer. So when you bought your PC a proportion of the cost went to Bill Gates. Yet open source internet browsers like Firefox can be downloaded for free and are generally agreed to do a better job than purchased products.

Novell Inc's president and COO Ron Hovsepian has defended the company's SUSE Linux business, maintaining that it is performing better than the company's revenue figures suggest.

Asserts Enterprise product has more growth potential than the desktop sold in the retail market.

" ... concludes that "Google has done a very, very nice job pulling together a financial portal." More Google watching with scattering, interesting comments, e.g. Firefox extension - converts all monetary numbers to current equivalent of barrels of oil.

From soup to nuts, book review: "Practical Development Environments".

Search for Linux AMD 64 chips. Some listed, e.g. "A basic guide to AMD64 Linux, biased to Gentoo...".

[F]inally given the official version of Mozilla's Firefox 2 Alpha 1, named Bon Echo.

"Bon Echo Alpha 1 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only..."

MEPIS founder Warren Woodford has announced a test release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0, incorporating software from the Ubuntu Dapper package pools. This is the first version of SimplyMEPIS with an Ubuntu base.

Novell speakers mixed football metaphors with a flurry of technical demos of their latest Linux offerings Friday to drive home its commitment to "open source" software development.

Update 7 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3. The GNOME-based Linux desktop is aimed at users who need a stable OS with a long lifespan but don't want an expensive bundled support contract ...

Pie Box Linux is derived from open-source software with only four packages modified in order to replace trademarks and logos with its own. Key standard features of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3 include the Linux 2.4 kernel, GNOME, Apache 2, Samba 3, and Logical Volume Manager, the company said.

Perhaps the first serious attempt to use a web application in place of a local, monolith office. This experiment does not require remote document storage, however, that is touted as an advantage. Moreover, the set is supposed to allow collaboration with several users writing the same document. [Not sure all these points are made in the editorial.]

I am a high school science teacher who is attempting to make the jump to Linux. A few months ago I made a some changes to my desktop PC, and had to re-register my Windows XP installation. This infuriated me -- and my quest for a suitable Linux replacement began. I'm now a bona fide Linux user, but that doesn't mean I'm completely happy.

With LinuxWorld Expo 2006 in Boston just two weeks away, here's a look at some highlights of the upcoming event.

Supposedly "Bill Hiff, Microsoft's director of technical platform strategy will keynote on Thursday" along with Nicholas Negroponte MIT giving the main talk. In addition, the user community is represented by Bob Gatewood, CTO of AthenaHealth.

Brisbane’s University of Queensland has decided to deploy an Asterisk-based VoIP system over it’s multi-campus fibre network.

The Uni also plans to investigate the possibility of making the service available over its recently installed wireless network. According to a report in ComputerWorld the University has successfully integrated an Asterisk server with its traditional DM PCS and is now investigating the systems’ presense functionality.

New computers make recovering the precise settings for Thunderbird and Firefox a pain. This tool is your cure.

FLOSS is behind an Indian Web site that brings together farmers and agricultural experts to exchange ideas and information.

With the competition to find the best creative ideas to help advertise its aims in full swing, the Mozilla Foundation has revealed that it may screen a Firefox advert on national television or in cinemas.

Chalk one up for the Linux guys. Linspire, the creators of the Debian/GNU Linux based Linspire OS, showcased a self-branded mini PC at CES 2006 that somehow slipped under the radar. According to TUX Magazine, the sweet little $399 (approx.) PC takes its looks from Apple's Mac mini but the similarities end there.

Live CDs do a great job of advertising Linux distributions. In addition to general-purpose live CD distributions, there are lots of task-oriented live CDs. Wouldn't it be great if you could carry multiple live CDs on one DVD disc? Nautopia.net has put up a script that you can use to make a custom DVD to boot multiple live CDs.

Novell showed a beta version of SLES 10 at its Brainshare conference this week in Utah; the final version is scheduled to ship "mid-summer", Steinman said. Novell's top rival, Red Hat, is incorporating Xen into its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, due by the end of the year.

If you're trying to figure out what Linux multimedia software you need for a project, here's a good place to find out.