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A progressive Welsh Council will use Open Source software to centralise the e-mail usage of its primary and secondary schools. Sirius Corporation, the UK's leading independent Open Source specialist, has been appointed to build a system with the potential to host a mailbox for every student and teacher in Carmarthenshire (some 40,000 users).

Oracle has released another free software tool for building, deploying and managing secure Web applications using only a Web browser. The tool makes it easier for users with limited programming experience to develop software for the Web that can be deployed quickly to up to thousands of users.

Free software, skills and bandwidth are the key anchors of a successful ICT programme. This is what Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth told the delegates at the ISPA iWeek conference in Midrand this morning.

This week we are giving away a copy of The Linux® Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures AND a copy of Linux® Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques.

Today is Labor Day in the USA, a holiday on which we honor workers by taking a day off. That makes about as much sense as ... well, you fill in the blank. We'll be back with new features tomorrow.

The recent launch of Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 put Xen into the commercial mainstream. If you haven’t come across it, Xen is a fledgling open-source server virtualisation technology. SLES 10 is the first commercially supported operating system to include Xen, but it won’t be the last.

The government inks a deal with Intel to power some 27,000 computers with open source software.

Zimbra is lobbying for an Ajax standard that lets several users simultaneously alter dynamic content--spreadsheets, charts, texts, or Web site information--through an online interface.

What does Red Hat really think about virtualisation? The good news is that Novell is now competing with a company whose marketing savvy is even worse than its own.

What do you give the GI Joe that has everything? The Recon-X military grade Pocket PC. Apparently intended for those who work in industries like construction, the new series will withstand drops, heavy vibrations, extreme temperatures, dust and water - conditions that would turn your average PDA into an expensive paperweight.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Kickoff, the experimental application menu alternative developed by SuSE, is imported into KDE SVN. Import of the work to support SVG scalable tilesets in KMahjongg. KViewShell gets support for LZW compressed fax files. Strigi gets support for the D-Bus Inter-Process Communication service, KBFX, a prospective element of Plasma, gets full support for Strigi. Kaffeine gets DVB plugin support. Amarok sees fundamental changes in a key statistics technology, along with a name change of the technology to "Amarok File Tracking (AFT)". Development of SafeSite, a network-aware phishing protection service proceeds. Interface changes in KTorrent.

We, the Debian maintainers of cdrtools, the cdrecord/mkisofs/cdda2wav program suite, just uploaded cdrkit into the Debian archive. It will hit your unstable box with the next run of dinstall, please help us and test it.

To be frank you do not need a new full source tree in order to just compile or build module against the running kernel i.e an exploded source tree is not required to build kernel driver or module. This is essential because if you just want to compile and install driver for new hardware such as Wireless card or SCSI device etc. With following method, you will save the time, as you are not going to compile entire Linux kernel.

Undo Software unveiled UndoDB, a bidirectional debugger for compiled programs, which allows a program to be run backwards in time as well as forwards. The program can be stepped back line-by-line, or rewound to any point in its history. Programmers can also play the program forwards and backwards in a totally repeatable fashion, "homing in" on the cause of a bug.

The requirements for new packet-based triple play and other enhanced services are driving the need for improved infrastructure throughout the world. In order to satisfy that need, telecom and networking equipment suppliers are also looking to utilise flexible platforms that enable them to reduce cost while speeding time to market. For many equipment providers, this means a move away from in-house proprietary systems toward open platforms.

Except for David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, every member of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education found enough to endorse in the draft the panel produced last month to support it over all. All of them, certainly, also found some aspects of the report objectionable, yet swallowed those objections and agreed, at a public meeting August 10, to sign the report.

[How is it that Microsoft gets a seat on an education commision? - Scott]

The storage market has become the latest to face the open-source revolution, with a new product from Cleversafe claiming to offer secure, economical and private storage using a dispersed storage grid technology.

In a paper delivered at an academic forum Thursday, Emmanuel Lallana, a commissioner of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology said efforts to promote free and open source software in education have focused on three aspects: 1) getting more people to use it; 2) developing content and electronic learning applications using the technology; and 3) developing experts who can support its wider use.

Enterprise Linux customers typically pick from just two options. Although HP’s decision to support Debian could widen the playing field, the choice really comes down to Novell and Red Hat. It’s worth comparing the two in terms of product offerings and overall style.

This is a nice start of the week-end, Judge Brooke Wells' Order denying SCO's Motion for In Camera Review of Allegedly Privileged Documents (here's the memo in support [PDF]). This is the final paragraph, and it tells the story -- this judge can't be intimidated: