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Although Microsoft had one of the largest spaces at BETT, the leading educational technology show in the U.K., there was a strong case made for open source software. Becta, an advice organisation supported by government, published a report that advised against any sudden move to upgrade Windows pending more evaluation promised for next year. Discussion on "personalized learning" followed another report that recognized some limitations in a tightly controlled system of tests.

One of the great things about the WordPress community is the amazing number of people who develop plugins for the blog platform and make them freely available to anyone.

Just because KDE has been designed to be portable across Linux, FreeBSD and other UNIX/X11 environments for an age now, doesn't mean we aren't up for the occasional challenge. With version 4, Trolltech released Qt for the Mac, Windows and now even embedded environments under the GPL. Since Qt is the base upon which KDE is developed, KDE is now free to offer native support for these platforms. Today I am focusing on the KDE/Mac developments for KDE 4.

There are currently more than 140,000 active open source projects available for download. Some are just concepts, while others are enterprise-ready applications like Linux.

Europe's lawmakers should "correct" policies that "implicitly or explicitly" favour the use of proprietary software, according to a newly published report from the European Commission (EC). The EC commissioned Netherlands based UNU-MERIT to investigate the "economic impact of "FLOSS"* in Europe". The researchers found open source software is worth around €2bn every year to the European economy.

Fedora Weekly News for Jan. 15 2007

Intalio Inc., an open source company, said Monday it signed distribution agreements with German, Brazilian, and U.S. partners. Redwood City-based Intalio said the partnerships bring its products to 20 countries on five continents. Partners include Ancud IT-Beratung GmbH in Germany, B2D Solutions in the United States, and Projeler in Brazil.

Sun Microsystems took a new open source step last week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress.

More software companies are finding that the best way to make money with software is to give it away, cherry-picking open-source software practices for commercial gain. On Monday, a small software company called Aras will release the code of its design application--written entirely with Microsoft technologies--and shift to an open-source business model. For a small company faced with tepid growth, letting anyone download its application for free was a risk worth taking.

Free Software Magazine has anarticle by frequent Linux Medical News contributor Fred Trotter on the 'Tivoization' of Healthcare:'Tivoization is a real threat to users freedom, but only when you consider the appropriate context. It’s not just a question of controlling hardware, more importantly its about controlling data. This issue becomes clearer when you consider health software instead of television software...'

Brett Adams, vice president of development at rPath, sees 2007 as a pivotal year for virtualization. When you are looking at the future of virtualization, few companies are as well positioned to make observations as rPath. Billing itself as the "software appliance company," rPath was one of the first companies to focus on virtual appliances and simplifying their production.

Sigrity has announced its full support for 64-bit Linux computing platforms by porting all of its signal and power integrity software products to systems running the 64-bit Linux operating system. The move is intended to boost performance and capacity for companies developing highly complex designs.

On Saturday, 20th January, the traditional KDE-NL New Year's Meeting will be held in Lent near Nijmegen in the eastern part of the country. KDE-NL invites contributors, interested users and other affiliated people for the day to get to know each other in person and discuss all kinds of KDE-related things. If you want to join, send an email to the Dutch kde-i18n-nl mailing list. If you want to give a talk, please note that in your e-mail. More information on can be found on this webpage.

Sometimes it seems like the Emacs editor has features that only operating systems have. You can, for instance, run an Internet Relay Chat client to chat online right from inside of Emacs.

Increased use of free and open source software in Europe could increase the region's competitiveness with the US, according to a European Commission study.

Linux.conf.au kicked off today at UNSW, beginning with a series of mini conferences covering the topics of Debian, GNOME, education, embedded, virtualisation, MySQL and Research.

Red Hat announced that it is playing an important role in shaping CMS Institute's CMS Certified Network Specialist (CCNS). The CCNS program is India's first networking-based Infrastructure Management program for youth seeking gainful employment in the ITeS industry.

Perhaps one of the best Linux distributions tailored for older hardware is DeLi Linux. It's simple, and performs well enough to run on hardware as old as a 486.

Can an open Linux phone platform change the mobile application game?While all eyes may have been on San Francisco and the launch of the developer-unfriendly Apple iPhone, the real game changers were demonstrating their strategy at CES 2007, in Las Vegas.

The FreeBSD team this morning released version 6.2 of the popular free Unix-like operating system.