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When Fedora 7 was released, one of its standout features was Smolt, an opt-in program for collecting data about users' hardware. Since then, Smolt has provided a publicly available snapshot of systems running Fedora, and is in the process of being ported to other distributions. With features being rapidly added, Smolt has the potential to offer an unprecedented wealth of information, and to aid in quality assurance, tech support, and advocacy, not only for Fedora, but for GNU/Linux in general.

IBM has announced what it is calling the Big Green Linux initiative in order to spark further interest in getting Linux firmly integrated into the enterprise, this time by going on the cost reduction and energy consumption attack.

This week on Open News Microsoft Submits "Open Source" Licenses, Carmony Calls it Quits, and MA Adopts OpenXML.

It's proof once again that proprietary projects are seen as more secure by those who are still seeking a clue. Frankly, we have enough challenges with chipset vendors that having the FCC provide their 'expert' opinion is simply not that helpful to further wireless development on the Linux front. Nonetheless, there it is.

Some people take the wrong approach to advocacy. They preach. Why not ask questions instead? Let them draw their own conclusions.

Howto Set Flickr images as Ubuntu desktop wallpaper

The PC maker has finally released desktops with pre-installed Linux in the United Kingdom, but users will have to pay a premium compared with the United States.

This howto shows you how to do a multi-site Drupal install on Ubuntu. It also covers how to layout your directories for ease of maintenance, and how to ensure that you can update Drupal easily from CVS.

In this article, Rais offers insights why Windows hardware failures may be causing some to update or replace devices that are still operational. Instead, he shows how powerful a tool Linux can be in tracking down hardware problems and validating some inherent issues with Windows device support.

Not everyone needs to work with music scores on their computers, but if you're someone who does enter, edit, or store sheet music electronically, you can choose among many free software options.

One of the nice things about the X Window System is its ability to display X apps running remotely on a local machine. One of the not-so-nice things about Microsoft Windows is the complete lack of native support for displaying X applications. If you find yourself working on Windows but wanting to use Linux apps at the same time, Xming can do the job. Xming is a port of X Window System to Microsoft Windows that's free and easy to use.

Linspire, developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux distributions, and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, announced on August 8 the immediate availability of the controversial Freespire 2.0 distribution -- the Linux distribution that embraces proprietary software.

Have you also experienced an ever-growing number of those ‘greeting card’ messages and emails? You’d better not open them, especially if you run that old-fashioned proprietary (read: business) operating system from Redmond, also known as ‘Vista’, or any of its predecessors.

At the opening of the LinuxWorld/Next Generation Data Center trade show in San Francisco, IBM and Novell today announced a new agreement to join forces to capture a larger piece of the growing open source application server market. Under the agreement, Novell will deliver and support WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, making it the industry's most comprehensive open source-based server offering.

Fedora 8 Test one has been loosed upon the world today. Included in this release is a "Fedora" installable 'choose your own adventure' style set of isos and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64).

At LinuxWorld the Dell CTO says the two will make running multiple operating systems on a single computer easier.

The personal health record (PHR) is different from an EHR. The PHR is an electronic, lifelong record of health information that is maintained by individual citizens. These individuals own and manage the information in the PHR, which comes from both their healthcare providers and the individuals themselves.This article recently published in Virtual Medical Worlds describes the current state of affairs with regards to the development and implementation of PHR systems in some detail. Here are just a few of the many collaborative projects, activities, and organizations involving the development and implementation of personal health record (PHR) systems that are described in the article. Many of these are open source solutions, e.g. AHIMA and myPHR; MyHealtheVet ; Eastern Maine Healthcare; and MyOnlineHealth; and iHealth Record.

Dell and Ubuntu fired the first shots. Together, they delivered the first mainstream consumer Linux desktops and laptops. Then, on Aug. 6, Novell and Lenovo blew open the business laptop market with the first regular listing of a Linux-powered business desktop, the T-series ThinkPads with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Then, just to underline the point that we're seeing a Linux desktop revolution, Dell announced that it too would be offering SLED on business systems. In Dell's case, the company will start by offering SLED in China.

Google Code for Educators, announced during Google's Faculty Summit last month, offers tutorials, sample course content, video lectures, and a Curriculum Search tool that focuses on Web-based materials from computer science departments worldwide.

In his LinuxWorld keynote speech August 7th, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler announced that Dell would be offering Novell's SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) in China as a pre-load on Dell systems. Kettler during his speech, which focused on virtualization and the desktop, made a point of using Xen on top of both SLED and Ubuntu on Dell laptops to demonstrate what a powerful combination virtualization and the Linux desktop makes. For example, on both systems, Kettler showed Microsoft Vista running as a client on Ubuntu and SLED using Xen.