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Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has launched its Patent Commons Project with backing from IBM - the industry's largest holder of technology patents - Computer Associates International (CA), Novell, Red Hat, Intel and Sun Microsystems.

Will L. L. Bean give its IBM mainframes the boot? Platform Solutions sure hopes so. Platform Solutions' software and firmware product turns Itanium servers into mainframes. It's had an HP Superdome running this code inside Bean for about a year, since December 2004.

Ukraine work with only software producer. Naturally, this is Microsoft Corporation. Recently the company has been humming through our country, especially fighting counterfeit software. And after the Orange Revolution Microsoft Corp. Chairman William H. Gates III became Councillor to President Viktor Yushchenko. So needless to say which software are delivered to Ukrainian schools.

Rumors were swirling last week that Novell was dropping KDE support. This news caused a flood of comments and protests. eWeek even got on the bandwagon and received clarification from Novell on the matter (KDE wasn't being dropped). Finally, Kevan Barney of Novell posted an official statement on Novell's PR blog.

[ed - He is not very informed or accurate about GNOME, but this editorial is one developers view of KDE - ralph]

Linux Gazette ...making Linux just a little more fun!

November 2005 (#120):
# The Mailbag
# The Answer Gang
# Experiments with an iPod, by Awasthi Nirendra
# Life With Unix, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)
# A $10 Linux Answering Machine, by Bob Smith
# Using the GNU Compiler Collection, by Vinayak Hegde
# Ecol, by Javier Malonda
# The Linux Launderette
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Linux Gazette is a volunteer-run monthly web magazine dedicated to two simple ideas: making Linux a little more fun, and sharing ideas and discoveries.

Open source is now "a mature technology" and the right, cost-effective option for many companies, according to Peter Blackmore, executive vice-president and president of worldwide sales at Unisys.

Java vendors' growing captivation with Apache has resulted in expanded product and licensing support from BEA Systems and Sun Microsystems. Tomcat is a servlet container, not a server as stated in the article. - ed

VMWare released a new, free, as in beer, product today. The VMWare player can host VMWare machines created in the commercial VMWare products. Several sample "machines" are offered for download. This included a nice stack of business apps, assembled by SpikeSource, and based on your choice of SuSE 9.3 or Fedora Core 3.

Free Software developers from Africa are gathered at the University of the Western Cape this week for the second African Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) developers workshop. The developers, which come from 13 collaborating African universities, are meeting at the university to work on the AVOIR project and its core applications the KINKY application framework and the KEWL.NextGen e-learning platform.

The State Services Commission's Laurence Millar today welcomed the all-of-government license agreement between the New Zealand Department of Inland Revenue and Novell.

In the process of my work on the testing security team, I've noticed that many developers still seem to be unfamiliar with how to use the new version tracking features[1] of the Debian BTS.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative today to bring the open source operating system to mobile phones.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the creation of a new annual award, "Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit".

ITTIA, which offers database solutions for platforms where limited memory, storage, and processing power make software development a challenge, said its db.* database has been tested on MontaVista Linux Pro 3.1

What is all this K stuff? That's often the question when people that have never used Linux and KDE ask when logging in to the environment for the first time. The K naming convention is often portrayed as confusing and cheesy, lacking professionalism. This article discusses the KDE audio mixer. It is the first in a series, each one devoted to a different KDE application. editors note: That is the blog's name.

Symbian Limited has announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider. Symbian is contributing substantial development work, as well as adding its experience and expertise, to the global, community-owned Open Source project.

A year ago today AMP(Asterisk Management Portal) was unleashed to the SourceForge(R) code repository website (http://sourceforge.net/projects/amportal). The response was immediate and favorable. Interest in AMP rose steadily and it quickly became the de facto freely available Asterisk GUI.

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 5.10

Trying to figure out if your laptop is connected to your home or office network? ping it.

How readers are using MySQL. At the end of last week's newsletter about the latest MySQL update, I asked how this open source database is being used among newsletter readers. From the large response, it appears the database is an integral part of many reader's Linux-based server platforms, and runs in a variety of ways.