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The Linux open-source computer system won a tough battle over Microsoft earlier this year when the German city of Munich decided to change the operating software of 14,000 government computers, despite the personal intervention of Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

Nvu 0.5 has been released. It include several enhancements in addition to: syntax highlighting, inbuilt spell checker, better horizontal and vertical rulers, Bidi control, smaller windows installer(6.5MB), etc.

Four years is a long time in software development, and the changes between 2000 and 2004 reflect that. In 2000, OpenOffice.org didn't exist -- only StarOffice, a product that Sun Microsystems had bought in 1999 from the German-based StarDivision, and didn't seem to know what to do with it. Today, OpenOffice.org is the source of Sun's version of StarOffice, but very much a project in its own right. Today's OpenOffice.org has features that the code that was open sourced in 2000 didn't, including automatic installation of dictionaries and fonts, PDF export, and the ability to write plug-ins in Java, Python, and several other programming languages. Louis Suarez-Potts has been community manager of the project since before it was announced. Recently, I talked with him via e-mail about where OpenOffice.org is heading, its relations with the greater open source community, and some of the issues that surround the project in the news.

New Breed Software has announced the immediate availability of major update to its children's art and drawing program, TuxPaint. The new version incorporates features requested by teachers and parents including an easy-to-use configuration tool, a multi-layered coloring book mode, and templates to jump-start design says project creator and well known open source developer Bill Kendrick.

Set up a heartbeat failover cluster that lets a good server pick up where a bad one leaves off, ensuring that your site is never down for long. Maintaining maximum system uptime is increasingly critical to the success of on demand computing. Unfortunately, many off-the-shelf solutions for high availability (HA) are expensive and require expertise.

Novell will launch its own Linux distribution, aimed at the enterprise, before the end of the year, the company's solutions manager for the Asia-Pacific, Paul Kangro said yesterday. Kangro demonstrated the features of the forthcoming distribution, which will be named Novell Linux Desktop, during a roadshow organised in Melbourne yesterday. The Novell Linux Desktop is based on SUSE Linux which Novell acquired last year.

That's right, folks - we're close to the release of Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 and, just like our last 1.0 release, we want to organise worldwide parties to celebrate.

KDE Project Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 3.3 Generation GNU/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution

Attention to details and solid advice make up for less-than-stellar graphics.

Ubuntu Linux is a new Debian-based distro sponsored by Canonical Ltd. I spent a week using Ubuntu and came away impressed, despite some of its obvious teething pains.

Ten years ago, Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling built a 16-node cluster, the original Beowulf, and started Linux and commodity hardware on a program of relentless improvement.

One of the most successful Linux sites on the Web, Linuxquestions.org reflects the "superb" community support about which we so often read. I caught up with Jeremy Garcia, the founder of Linuxquestions.org, and the result is this interview.

Welcome to this year's 40th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Christian Perrier reported the new debian-installer can be understood by two third of the world population since it is translated into 40 languages.

Centel is now distributing LinspireEspañol, the Linux operating system for laptops and PCs.

SLAX 4.1.4 has been released, and we've done some screenshots for you. "SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD without installing. The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO image. All scripts and source code are available and can be used to build your own Live CD. Imagine the ability to boot your favorite Linux distribution whether you are at home, at school, or at work. Imagine walking on the street and carrying the only thing you needed in life - the 8cm compact disk with your Live Linux CD. Wouldn't you want to experience such a feeling? :-)" - slax.linux-live.org

Find out what new cool features will be available in v1.0, what features have been implemented so far and what visions these bright young men have for the future of BitlBee and the Open Source world.

My Conclusion is this, for a SOHO Business system that wants to get more useable life out of their computer systems I cannot think of a better Linux system out there.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that it now hosts an officially recognized forum for Suse Linux.

The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the French Atomic Energy Commission have signed an agreement to work together on an open-source software product.

Well now, it turns out Sun was done after all. On first take, this looked way preposterous: Eastman Kodak Co., which knows little or nothing about enterprise software and is falling quickly behind the competition in its own market, sues Sun Microsystems for patent infringement involving Java -- Sun's supposedly homegrown, bread-and-butter IP and front-line enterprise software product. Then, bam, Kodak wins a legal judgment last week in a federal court, with the jury populated by Rochester, N.Y. citizens. And the camera guys do this in a mere three weeks in a case that was first filed in February 2002.