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The KDE project this week released KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release of the popular free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. This version brings a renewed focus to KDE-PIM (personal information management) applications.

ColdFusion web host HostMySite.com has added two new Linux ColdFusion Virtual Private Server (VPS) plans to their lineup of high-performance products and services. The new ColdFusion VPS plans feature CFMX7, MySQL 5, Red Hat Enterprise, and a limited number of clients per server.

Officials from Microsoft and Novell took to the stage at the Open Source Business Conference on Wednesday to insist their recent cooperation agreement was good for the open source software community, but they were unable to convince everyone of their altruism.

Those Ubuntu-powered Dell machines are almost here.

A new Microsoft-funded study has found that open-source developers do not believe that licenses such as the upcoming GNU General Public License 3.0 should enforce software patents or prevent deals like the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement.

"The List" is nearly 500 names long, and growing rapidly. It might have started out as a light-hearted jab, but it has quickly become a flash point of the building fury in the open source software community toward Microsoft and its recent claim of patent infringements.

Announce Engineering Effort in the Ongoing Development of the World's Leading Free Productivity Suite

Customized streaming radio service will soon be available to users of the Sonos wireless music system.

[Sonos is a GNU/Linux-based device - dcparris]

Open source faces other threats, while Microsoft has its own patent fights, Ubuntu founder says.

Learn how to recognize a tightly coupled system and then disentangle it using the Dependency Inversion Principle.

Companies like Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said Tuesday.

[The title is horribly off-base - makes it seem like the GPLv3 will require Google, et. al., to distribute their in-house modified libre software. The article makes it clear this is untrue, but the title is very misleading. - dcparris]

LINA Allows Open Source Applications, Compiled Once, to Run on Windows, Mac, and Linux Platforms with Native Look and Feel

Novell plans to reveal the details in conjunction with filing its upcoming annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission, spokesman Bruce Lowry said Wednesday at the Open Source Business Conference here. The report had been held up by Novell's investigation into its stock option compensation practices.

- Organizations will jointly lobby governments, international organizations - Novell to support EFF 'Patent Busting' initiative

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz says he is ready to use the company's extensive patent portfolio to help defend Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux against Microsoft's patent offensive.

Q&A: Simon Phipps talks on patent reform and Microsoft's claims that free and open-source software is infringing its patents.

LXer Feature: 24-May-2007

Would you believe that, in 2007, there are people who still blame Linux for the lack of hardware vendors who advertise Linux support and who believe that the Bash project's evangelists are hurting Linux uptake? Look, if you're going to claim the GNU/Linux community is not grasping the average computer user, at least use some up-to-date arguments - not the tired old arguments from 1999.

LXer Feature: 23-May-2007

Dell started "listening" to its customers in February. They spoke loudly and clearly. It's not even June yet - 24 May, to be exact - and Dell is set to launch it's lineup of desktop and laptop computers with Ubuntu Linux 7.04 pre-installed.

Opinion -- Ever since I wrote "Why people really don't switch to Linux," I've been getting email and forum messages about why I'm right or why I'm wrong. One thing I didn't mention, though, was that really, in 2007, we're all already Linux users.

Dell outlined some of the technical details surrounding its use of Ubuntu 7.04 on its desktops.