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The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open-source software, it was revealed this week. But the Commission was swayed into allowing a 10-day period for feedback before completing the report.

Last week I had to move (and therefore reboot) a machine running Debian sarge (stable) which has a couple of FireWire drives attached to it. Last time I did this it all came up beautifully of its own accord; sadly not this time. The logs showed the nodes being recognised by the ieee1394 module, but not actually being mounted.

Learn all about the history and prospects of AIGLX from its creator and FOSDEM 2007 speaker Kristian Høgsberg. In an interview he reveals that AIGLX is 'more or less just done', and he is now working on Linux FireWire drivers for Red Hat.

One is in france, and has limited capacity for non-debian-edu people left. Please let me know on what and with whom you want to work together if you want to take advantage of this opportunity. It takes place in temporal and physical proximity to fosdem.

Web hosting provider Verio will address the benefits of Linux Virtual Solutions to help businesses, developers and ISVs gain greater control and lessen IT headaches

[They are presenting there software solutions at SCALE 5x - Scott]

System-wide security solutions such as SELinux, AppArmor, Bastille and grsecurity can, in most cases, make your Linux desktop more than reasonably secure. But there are still cases where file or directory encryption is necessary. Here are some tools that can help you when you need to move files outside of your home computer, carry personal data around with you on a pendrive, or send email messages containing sensitive information.

Jungo Announces USBware Support for the Samsung SC241x Multipurpose Micro-Processor

Examine three traps you could fall in when porting Java Web applications from Windows to AIX, and learn how to maneuver around them.

The three-day Open Source event, LinuxAsia 2007 began in the capital amidst many surprises, including a prominent participation by Microsoft, which has traditionally been considered the bete-noire of the open source movement, showcasing interoperability between MS' proprietary platforms and OSS.

In an unsurprising move, Microsoft's Bill Gates rejects Mikhail Gorbachev's plea to intervene and assist in the case of a school teacher being sentenced for "piracy"

Sun Microsystems announced that the first version of a plug-in for converting MS Office documents to OpenDocument Format (ODF) will be available soon.

On February 7, the CHiC massive parallel Linux cluster with 2,152 processors distributed across 538 server nodes went into operation in Chemnitz . The new Revision F generation of AMD's Opteron CPUs, which support DDR2 RAM and AMD's "Secure Virtual Machine (SVM) virtualization technology, are used. Infiniband is used to connect the nodes, which are equipped with IBM server boards.

Recent research from open source software and services provider OpenLogic Inc suggests that businesses are taking a more managed approach to their adoption of open source software, with over half using an open source policy.

How a school created a new computer lab without buying computers, software, or books

[A fantastic example of the power of Open Source. - Scott]

If you still dig the old-style arcade games, you owe it to yourself to check out Kobo Deluxe, an improved version of XKobo with sound and better graphics. I ran across Kobo Deluxe when I was looking for a game similar to Namco's arcade classic Bosconian. Your mission? Blow up the fortresses and move on to the next level, to ... blow up more fortresses. OK, so it's not exactly Shakespearean story development, but what do you want from a retro arcade-style game anyway? Right -- fast-paced action and an ever-increasing high score, which Kobo Deluxe delivers in spades.

Red Hat (Quote) is rolling out a new version of its Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) that improves smart card usability, management and integration on Linux, Mac and Windows platforms.

This guide describes how to install Ubuntu (Ubuntu+GNOME) or Kubuntu (Ubuntu+KDE) 6.06.1 LTS (Dapper Drake) on a single or a multi-boot RAID system. It is meant as a variation of Ubuntu Wiki FakeRAID HowTo document, but digested and with minimum commentary. Its goal is to allow new Ubuntu users to complete an entire installation within 30 minutes, almost entirely by copy and paste.

Canonical Ltd, the lead sponsor of the popular Ubuntu operating system, and Linspire, Inc. the developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name, today announced plans for a technology partnership that integrates core competencies from each company into the other's open source Linux offerings.

"To "argue" in favor of adding non-free software in GNU/Linux distros is almost superfluous, since that's what nearly all of them have already done. This reflects the general spinelessness of our community."

The merry month of March is just a few weeks away and foremost in the minds of those in the free and open source software community is the question of licences.