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Have you ever had your taskbar filled with 10 applications all doing something that involved waiting for a task to finish? Document Printing Progress, a K3b CD burning dialogue, Audio Encoding via KAudioCreator, File Transfers in Konqueror, Kopete, KTorrent, checking email in KMail... The new Jobs support in KDE 4 will unify the display of progress for these tasks, making it easy to see and manage what is happening on your system.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything is one of the first efforts to explain open source and Web 2.0 to the traditional business community. This goal is revolutionary enough for the book's dust jacket to be covered with enthusiastic blurbs from major corporate executives and business academics. However, your opinion of the book is likely to depend on your familiarity with the subject.

If you run a stable system, you don't have to miss out on the latest and greatest releases of your favorite applications -- just use a backport to get a package of a new release that's been "back-ported" to your older distribution.

Real-time embedded Linux vendor FSMLabs has joined the partner program of database vendor MySQL AB. The companies will work together to expand their telecom-specific consulting services around MySQL-powered software running on FSMLabs's hard real-time enabled Carrier Grade Linux and BSD distributions, FSMLabs says.

Welcome to this year's 1st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Erinn Clark, co-founder and leader of Debian Women is selected one of the top 10 girl geeks who are influential in Open Source. Linux-Watch posted Chris Fearnley's rebuttal to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argument that Debian is in trouble.

Centeris Corp., a Bellevue, Wash.-based vendor specializing in Linux server management tools for Windows administrators, has launched a new product that allows Linux servers to take part in an Active Directory (AD) environment.

Under a new partnership inked with Intel, Sun Microsystems will optimize the Solaris operating system (OS) for the Intel platform, and begin shipping Xeon-based systems in the first half of 2007. Sun and Intel will also collaborate in joint marketing, design and engineering efforts.

Law professor and intellectual property expert Kimberlee Weatherall was honoured with an award for service to the open source community at Linux.conf.au last Friday night. The annual award, known as the "Rusty Wrench" is presented to the person who has made the most positive impact on the Australian open source community, as judged by Linux Australia.

Last time when people got a chance to get face to face with Brian Behlendorf, they were all attracted towards that pony-tailed guy's charismatic personality and his manner of delivering speech. This year, you can once again brush shoulders with one of the Linux knights in your own city Delhi.

LynuxWorks will demonstrate a simulated aircraft environment based on embedded Linux, a proprietary separation kernel, and Intel Virtualization Technology, at the Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Conference (EAC) next week in San Diego. The demonstration shows Linux failing without affecting real-time POSIX applications running directly under the company's LynxSecure separation kernel.

During a tutorial that Chris Blizzard gave at Linux.conf.au, there were quite a few interesting ideas and concepts raised that presented an interesting blueprint for Linux in the future. The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project is in the enviable position at the moment of being able to change technologies and directions as they choose, with no rollouts and a lot of the work still to be done software wise. Free of the inertia that an existing product presents, OLPC can be fresh in its thinking and be a trend setter.

Mozilla on Jan. 18 released version 1.1 of its SeaMonkey web application suite. Like the old Mozilla application suite that it replaced a year ago, SeaMonkey combines browser, email, newsgroups, IRC chat, and HTML editing capabilities within a single program.

In 2003, Jason Clifford started an Internet service provider (ISP) in Hertfordshire, England, called UK Free Software Network. What sets UKFSN apart from other ISPs is the fact that it gives away its profits to fund students working on free and open source software (FOSS) projects.

The final iteration of Damn Small Linux 3.2 was released by the U.S.-based project team on Jan. 18. Version 3.2 squeezes a 2.4.26 kernel and the Fluxbox window manager in a compact, 49.7 MB package. Damn Small Linux is a thumb-drive-sized mini desktop Linux distro that, despite its minuscule size, strives to be functional and easy-to-use.

Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (seeAt the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl andHDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the man behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.

Linspire Standardizes Software Installation Across Linux Distributions

Yes, Cisco/Linksys has had problems with GPL before. From what we heard from the tech industry when that scandal hit (2003-ish), Linksys was borrowing freely from GPL and but not attributing it, a definite no-no. When Cisco purchased Linksys in 2003, they had a source code review and discovered the "oversight". After the obligatory "WTF do we do" meetings, Cisco decided to release the firmware into the open source community. This is why Linux hackers latched on and upgraded their router into a $600 beast.

The industry organization has created the "OpenLiberty Project" to provide tools and information for developing applications that use the Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services standards, it announced Monday at the "Liberty 2.0" event here. Liberty Alliance was formed in 2001 to develop standards for online verification of identity.

The One Laptop Per Child project, which demonstrated the first build of the self-powered laptop to a roomful of reporters Jan. 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is now into its second build of the new green machine.

The SUNY Linux Learning Collaborative, a partnership between Millard Fillmore College (MFC) at the University at Buffalo and Just-in-Time Resources of Calgary, Alberta, is offering online Linux training leading to the Linux Professional Institute first level (LPIC-1) certification. LPIC-1 certification, administered by the Linux Professional Institute, is considered to be the industry standard for excellence in Linux skills and knowledge for information technology professionals.