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Today we are formally launching a campaign to spread consumer awareness about telecommunications in South Africa.<br /> <br /> Our first project is an ambitious fundraising drive to take out a full <br /> page advert in a leading national newspaper to protest the current lack <br /> of alternatives in the South African telecommunications sector. We've <br /> had a fantastic response from South Africans since publicising the idea.

[All I can say is, "Go for it!" - dcparris]

Open source may have its merits, but a market analyst advises businesses not to consider the technology based solely on its namesake.

[Some organizations make open source their strategy to get free of royalty-based licenses and all the license enforcement that goes along with such. - dcparris]

Kepak, the food-processing company headquartered in Ireland, is planning to extend its use of open-source software (OSS) to other areas of its business, having implemented a system to control its pan-European network and also put in place an identity-management system.

A few weeks ago, I started looking around for an application that makes it easy to take notes. I do all my writing in Vim, but I wanted something that was good for quick and dirty notetaking and for organizing information without maintaining a collection of text files. After some research, I settled on Tomboy.

SplendidCRM Software Inc nudged the open source CRM market forward a notch with a release of its Microsoft-based application.

FSF hopes for Torvalds compromise

LinuxWorld Delegates to this week's open source love-in left San Francisco pondering a a split over the next proposed version of GPL, which governs Linux.

ECS Computers has announced that it has been appointed as an authorised distributor for Red Hat products in Singapore.

When it comes to software applications, this outlook does not necessarily hold true. Open-source software provides a number of options that are often as good, or better, than their commercial or retail competition. Traditionally, executives and network administrators have frowned upon most open-source software for one reason or another. The reality is that budgets are tight and open-source products have matured, and companies should start to consider open-source products for their networks.

[Yet another article propagating the myth that "open source" is gratis. You can bet this one generated an e-mail to the editors. - dcparris]

US giant chucks out Red Hat Linux to replace it with Suse Linux on store terminals and for its backend point-of-sale management systems.

Red Hat and Novell sparred once again over the market readiness of the open-source Xen engine at LinuxWorld. Red Hat insists Xen still isn't ready for prime time, which may push back the release of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform until early 2007.

The EU has adopted a set of governmental standards for reduction of the use of hazardous materials in electrical and electronic equipment. This standard is called RoHS, and when the ex cathedra RoHS Directive came down, it was missing a little crucial piece of information -- how manufacturers, distributors, and purchasers of parts could communicate to each other the RoHS status of every part.

LXer Feature: 17-Aug-2006

An interview with the Project Lead and Creator of the Open Graphics Project, Timothy Miller.

Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Movidis, a five-year-old company that previously specialized in video-on-demand servers, is eschewing popular x86 server processors in favor of a multicore, MIPS-based CPU previously used primarily for network appliances. The 16-core, 64-bit processor is low-power and has an integrated Gigabit Ethernet controller and encryption, said Movidis CEO Ken Goldsholl.

We still have to deliver the promised test of the latest Beta3 of the Debian Installer for Etch. And today, I sat down and did it, and I made some screenshots while installing. So this is also a perfect Howto for people who until now never installed Debian.

Broadband Transmission-line Characterization Using Short-Pulse Propagation is a software toolkit containing a 2D field solver and signal-processing facility for Linux.

A panel discussion at LinuxWorld urged developers on Wednesday to get religion about Linux on the desktop and consider the generation of users who expect music and video at their fingertips. “The question I get asked most about Linux by people under 30 is ‘will it work with my iPod?’” said Eric Raymond, a celebrated figure in the open-source movement who penned the popular book “The Cathedral and the Bazaar.”

Budding young journalists in the African nation Chad now have access to open source tools, thanks to Five Minutes to Midnight, a organization "devoted to promoting human rights and international issues among the world's youth."