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Evaluation committees are hard at work on the latest draft of the General Public License (GPLv3), but members of those groups say it will ultimately be up to one person to decide what the license will look like when it's finished in early 2007.

"Greed and close-mindedness" prevent handset makers from understanding what users want from Linux phones, writes Eugenia Loli-Queru in an impassioned editorial at OSNews.

The release of free electronic health record (EHR) software, which physicians could download from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has been delayed indefinitely, a department official said yesterday.

Start with the ultimate AMD64 motherboard and build on it to create a masterpiece of your own.

The Portland Project, the collaborative venture of Linux vendors and developers to simplify the process of porting and integrating applications for Linux desktops, has announced the beta release of its first application tools for the Linux desktop's GNOME and KDE environments.

Ubuntu's desktop install provides a bunch of useful software for desktop users, but it doesn't install a firewall by default. Luckily, it's really simple to get a firewall up and running on Ubuntu.

Icculus has released an updated dedicated Linux server files for Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 2.

Modern archeologists deal with immense quantities of numerical data. Processing that data can require highly customizable software, but, as in many disciplines, computer usage often remains limited to producing fancy PowerPoint slides. Yet for a variety of reasons, it makes sense for software in archeology to be open, viewed as a service, and controlled by the user community. In this way, even institutes with very small budgets can play a significant role.

Beatifully stubborn coders who prefer the SeaMonkey web browser/mail/chat/HTML-editor suite, have managed to install Firefox extensions -including the popular GreaseMonkey scripting engine- into their beloved Mozilla reincarnation.

Too often, excellent communicators publish newsfeeds so dumb that they drive readers away. If RSS or Atom feeds are part of your mix, you may want to see how many barriers you've inadvertently built to block loyal subscribers.

Monarch Computer's Stalwart Hornet Pro(R) Gets an Upgraded Fashion Sense

[I checked their custom configuration page and you really can select Fedora or Ubuntu. The bad news is, either will cost $90, about $5 less than that closed, legacy system from whats-its-name. -- grouch]

Red Hat is taking a beating Thursday, as investors frown over news that the company's takeover of JBoss will take longer than expected to pay off.

A U.S. magistrate has struck down many of the SCO Group Inc.'s claims against IBM Corp., saying the Utah company failed to show its intellectual property was misappropriated when Big Blue donated software code to the freely distributed Linux operating system.

This is a report on an excellent talk that I am hearing on the factors of success with VistA. The subject is the seven critical success with Medical Software. Essentially these are the lessons that VistA has learned via hard knocks. This list is partly compiled from those who have suceeded but mostly is the result of those who have failed with VistA.

Free/Open Source Software has always been about innovation, writes Packt columnist Mayank Sharma. We have come from resolving dependencies to unique point-and-click package management, from text-based installations to graphical ones that are easy to follow, from a lack of desktop-oriented applications to a surplus. But the desktop and window managers still feel like they did initially. Does the buck stop here? Not if SymphonyOS can help it.

Right on schedule, an alliance of NEPs (network equipment providers) formed last January has published its first Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) "profile." The SCOPE Alliance profile shows what top NEPs care about most, the group says. SCOPE earlier this year published its first ATCA profile.

Code hackers found a way to stuff the Penguin back into the new and cheaper Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi routers which run Vxworks, according to a news post on the dd-wrt project portal.

'We plan to bring computing power to non-English speaking people by translating the desktop menus, help messages, files, FAQs, error messages etc., of GNU Linux System in various Indian languages,' C-DAC officials said.

Lucas County commissioner candidate Ben Konop wants the county to replace its licensed software with free, open-source programs, claiming that the shift would save taxpayer money and improve the area’s reputation.

[The author of the article should be clued in as to the fact that FOSS is also "licensed" software. The auditor should offer some evidence to back up his claims. He is so far off the mark, it isn't funny. But it does raise the question whether the pro-FOSS candidate has done his homework. It's one thing to make bold claims like that, but another to help people see just how FOSS could work. Our Candidate needs some beef to go with that gravy. - dcparris]

Many magazines and book publishers make available a free online version of their products, often as PDF files. Chances are you scroll through multiple pages of PDFs every day. To reduce the number of miles you put on the mouse wheel, you can use free software to read out the documents to you.

[Before installing Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 7, you may want to read about the Unexpected features in Acrobat 7, by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier. -- grouch]