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Red Flag Desktop will ship with the award-winning Opera browser, which is focused on user experience. The program is known for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other Internet browsers. Opera also includes an e-mail client and IRC-compatible chat.

South Australian upper house MP Ian Gilfillan today chastised his fellow members for choosing to stick with Microsoft software for their web site and intranet projects. "There is .. a growth of open source content management systems, used to manage internet and intranet content, systems like MySource, Zope and PostNuke," he told Parliament this afternoon.

Happy Thanksgiving! NewsForge will be on a reduced posting schedule from today through the rest of the weekend. We'll be back to business as usual on Monday. If you are someplace where Thanksgiving is celebrated, we hope you enjoy the holiday. If not, we'll enjoy it for you, and later you can enjoy some of your holidays for us while we work. :)

The latest survey from OneStat.com shows what was expected. Firefox is gaining on Internet Explorer and pretty rapidly. As per the reports, Mozilla Foundation has taken a 7.4% market share gaining more than 5% since May. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has dropped down to 88.9%

Long-time Microsoft partner Intel Corp. is working to help Asian PC manufacturers install Linux on new machines rolling off the assembly lines.

A South African organisation has produced what it claims is the first television series dedicated to promoting open-source software

The main SCO Group web site (sco.com) has been intermittently accessible on Tuesday and Wednesday, having been down on Monday, displaying characteristic patterns seen during a protracted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Several related domains have also been off - and on-line over the last 72 hours.

This is a fairy tale, a dream I had last night. Any similarity between real kingdoms, and real kings, and real journalists, is purely coincidental. Obviously the things depicted here could never happen in real life, or in real journalism. We are much too fair and balanced for that.

Welcome to this year's 46th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. In an interview Richard Stallman explained why it is important in terms of freedom and cooperation to have schools use Free Software. VA Linux Systems Japan recently announced the release of VA Balance, a load balancing system, based on UltraMonkey and Debian GNU/Linux.

Intel has released its Quick Start Kit for Linux, stepping up support for Asian system integrators that offer Linux-based desktop PCs.

Does the open source community embrace any group that chooses to develop and distribute code freely? If so, then the folks at OpenNETCF.org must be part of that open source community, even though they are all loyal Windows users.

ActiveGrid is a new open source software company that hopes to capitalize on an idea it calls "commercial open source." It has already convinced a couple of venture capitalists to front $3 million to develop a tool called the Grid Application Server.

A week ago, I wrote that Sun will regain control in the server market by making Solaris 10 open source. On paper this looked logical. Tens of thousands of hits and a flood of reactions from the Linux community later, things look rather different to me.

Open-source software is carving a larger niche in the mobile realm, with electronics firms NEC and Panasonic rolling out Linux-based handhelds for Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo. The two manufacturers have adopted the MontaVista Linux OS for three third-generation (3G) mobile phones to be offered by DoCoMo with the carrier's advanced FOMA (freedom of mobile multimedia) network.

In part two of this ever-expanding MIDI series, a look at various sequencers, from Rosegarden to seq24.

With Linus Torvalds (Linux), Michael Widenius (MySQL) and Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) three of Europe's most famous Open Source developers have turned to the EU Competitiveness Council in a bid to prevent the Council from adopting at the end of this week the current draft of the so-called Software Patent Directive. In a joint declaration published at NoSoftwarePatents.com they call the controversial "Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions" known as the Software Patent Directive "deceptive, dangerous and democratically illegitimate."

Open-source software, increasingly popular with budget-conscious companies, is beginning to expand into a new area: The lucrative infrastructure-software market dominated by industry giants such as Microsoft.

Novell may roll a version of Linux tuned specifically for the SMB market, chairman and CEO Jack Messman said Thursday during a conference call announcing the company's strong fiscal 2004 earnings and return to profitability. [SMB == Small to Medium Business. Thanks davewarner.]

Several new distributions make communicating with a Windows network more difficult than it should be.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- The annual LISA (Large Installation System Administration) conference has a devoted following; you meet people here who have attended five, six, even seven LISAs in a row. The '04 edition wasn't as big as the ones held during and immediately after the dot-boom years, but it's still exciting to gather 1,200 sysadmins and academics in one place so they can share knowledge with one another. The question, though, is whether the current blend of academic-style research paper presentations, practical tutorials, and general-interest keynotes should be continued or whether LISA should focus more in a single direction. And it's a good question, because the conference's demographics have changed noticeably in the last few years.