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With a high-profile executive speech at LinuxWorld and the launch of a new Web site focusing on open source, Microsoft has been cozying up to the Linux penguin this week.

The A780 has a clever design that allows it to be used conveniently as a candybar phone, or opened up when touchscreen PDA applications are required, Loli-Queru observes. Much of the device's functionality, including its music player and camera, is available in candybar mode.

Kaspersky Lab today reported a new proof-of-concept (PoC) cross-platform virus that creates malicious code to infect both Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. [ED: They made a virus that can infect both Linux and Windows just to prove it could be done? - sharkscott]

The DCC Alliance emerges from LinuxWorld still set to its goal of making Debian Linux a major business player.

Maria Winslow, author of The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source and open source business analyst for Open Source Migrations, sat down at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston with SearchOpenSource.com. She talked about her views on emerging technologies, where not to find deployable open source applications and the impact of proprietary vendors that decide to share their code with the community.

Norway said Friday that it plans to wean itself from dependence on large corporations like Microsoft by increasing the use of open source software within government agencies. The Norwegian government also plans to organize a panel of experts to set standards for access to public information and how operating systems can interoperate.

Concurrent has updated its Red Hat-based real-time Linux distribution for multi-processor x86 systems, adding support for multicore AMD and Intel processors. It has additionally announced real-time extensions and tools for SuSE Linux, and signed up Novell to help sell and support them.

New features made available with version 2 of the Google Toolbar for Firefox provide users with the ability to easily integrate newly discovered feeds into the Google Personalized Homepage or other feed readers.

KDE and Gnome both support the plans for these new APIs that will also give desktop PC vendors like Dell and HP, and enterprise application companies, such as SAP an incentive to support desktop Linux.

Unveiled at LinuxWorld in Boston, the first offering, put together by Novell, includes the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, the Websphere Application Server Community Edition and DB2 Express-C. Initially, the bundle will be available through Avnet’s partner channel. Also contained in the bundle is the IBM eServer xSeries or BladeCenter servers with either external or internal storage.

Hewlett-Packard plans to package their products in bundles called HP's Open Source Integrated Portfolio, the computer maker plans to announce Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo Tuesday. The bundles combine open-source "building blocks"--including the JBoss Application Server, JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, and Symas' Connexitor Directory Services software--with Linux, Windows or HP's version of Unix, HP-UX.

Red Hat Inc. a leading distributor of open-source Linux software, said on Tuesday quarterly profit more than doubled on the back of strong subscription sales from corporate customers.

Fans of the popular Linux software program have long fretted that software giant Microsoft will attack Linux by claiming the free program violates Microsoft's patents. So far nothing has happened. But in an interview with Forbes.com, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer wouldn't rule out such a showdown.

Last Friday, the MCT inaugurated a 3-day Latin American Free Software Installation Fair, promoting the use of the open-source Linux operating system and other non-proprietary programs that avoid dependence on Microsoft products.

TIRUVANAMALAI: Thousands of students from various engineering colleges and schools in and around Tiruvannamalai took part in the inauguration of the free and open source software exhibition, 'Fosse 06', at the Arunai Engineering College here on Sunday.

As promised at last month's Open Source Business Conference Sun Microsystems Tuesday made good on its plans to release the UltraSPARC T1 processor design under the GNU General Public License.

This Saturday (2006-03-25) between 13:00 - 21:00 UTC, the debian.org machines hosted by HP are going down due to maintenance in their cage on the power systems.

"A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community," Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the OpenBSD open source operating system, declared this week.

Even five years back, the very thought of "browsing the net" gave us a visual of the Internet Explorer. The situation has changed recently with the replacement of the Internet Explorer (IE) by various browsers like Maxthon, Opera, Firefox and a number of others.