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The November 2006 agreement between Microsoft and Novell is delaying the release of the final draft of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), says Peter Brown, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

Register now for Gelato ICE: Itanium(r) Conference & Expo, which will take place April 15-18, 2007, at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California.

Once or twice a year I look at FOSS video editing tools to see if they're ready for everyday use by advanced amateur and low-end professional video makers, which is where I classify myself in the video production hierarchy. There have been several notable improvements recently that have moved FOSS video editing tools a little closer to practicality, but FOSS desktop video editing still has a long way to go before it can be taken seriously by people who need to turn out high-quality video productions on tight deadlines.

Written in Java and released under the GPL, iDART (intelligent Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment) is a pharmacy system designed for use at antiretroviral (ARV) pharmacies in the public health sector. Initially distributed only as software, it was generally implemented on machines using Windows. Due to issues of reliability and security, Cell-Life have created iDART-in-a-box, which is a complete system running on Ubuntu Linux.

The SDK enables a fast and simple integration of Linux-based applications in the Collax Solution Platform

I have a 1TB RAID array that has to be moved from my one remaining Solaris machine (which will no longer boot) to a Linux machine. I was expecting that - as with the other disk which has undergone the same process - this would appear as a SunOS usr disk and partition, which I could then mount read-only and dump elsewhere before reformatting the disk as ext3 & dumping it back again.

Many web pages nowadays are embellished with Flash animation products and then the problem of Flash Search Engine Optimization arises and it is indeed a very serious matter in terms of conversion and web site profitability.

Amazon.com is the most popular online retailer. While you can, of course, access the site with any browser, developer Fabio Serra has created Mozilla Amazon Browser (MAB), a browser-based application that relies on Mozilla's XML User Interface Language (XUL) technology to implement its graphical user interface.

Beyond using XML as a simple data format, data binding is one of the most popular uses of XML. It allows even beginner programmers to work with XML in a native programming language, and in many cases doesn't require any XML expertise at all. This article introduces some discussion topics to start you thinking about how you use XML and data binding with Java.

Looking for GNOME 2.18? Find it in Foresight 1.1 or just try out the Live Demos.

Yesterday GNOME 2.18.0 was released, and while it will be included with Fedora 7 Test 3 later this month (it will also be in the next Ubuntu Feisty Fawn test release), I couldn't help but to upgrade a few Fedora boxes immediately. Initially I had tried using GARNOME, but this time around with 2.18.0 it was pouting over SELinux's avc.h on the first Rawhide system I tried. However, many of the GNOME 2.18.0 packages are already available through Rawhide, so I proceeded to take that route with updating all of the GNOME packages this morning.

An open source pharmacy software system, iDART, designed for use at antiretroviral (ARV) pharmacies for HIV+ patients is now being deployed on PCs running Ubuntu.

Architecture for Humanity and AMD have announced a prize of $250 000 for the best design for a computer lab that can be adapted and implemented in third-world countries.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora Core 6 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (virtual machines) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

KDE is happy to be participating in the Google Summer of Code program for the third consecutive year! As usual, we are looking for mentors and students to take us singing through the summer. Whether you have been part of the program in previous years or not, we need your help and fantastic ideas!

Microsoft released its Virtual PC (VPC) 2007 virtualization software as freeware recently, and you definitely get what you pay for. VPC 2007 isn't Open Source, nor does it run on Linux. Linux isn't even mentioned as supported guest operating system, but since people have successfully run several Linux distributions through earlier versions of VPC, I decided to give it a go. After several hours of struggle, I found out why VPC 2007 doesn't claim to support Linux distros.

Novell has issued a joint press release with Microsoft, in which HSBC, a customer of joint technology from the two companies, claims that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux.

Run machine-learning algorithms on parallel platforms with IBM Parallel Machine Learning (PML) Toolbox. This makes it possible to train such algorithms on large data sets in reasonable computational time. The toolbox includes several algorithms, as well as an API for adding your own algorithms.

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