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I didn't feel the need for a better browser, until I found myself using one. Now I even feel grateful. I can also tell the same story about Mozilla Thunderbird. I've converted. It is better than Outlook - for my purposes at least. It has all the features that matter, you can convert data (address book and mail) from Outlook in about 1 hour and it stops spam. (Not all of it so far, but most of it.)

Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Distributing firmware blobs in the Linux kernel is still discussed controversially and probably will be for quite a while. Joshua Kwan reported about progress with the installer on the Sparc architecture. Manoj Srivastava also has called for votes on the general resolution to add editorial changes to the social contract a second time.

Researchers at Mount Allison University are working to better understand how human DNA is damaged and what drugs can be used to repair it, using a powerful IBM Linux supercomputing cluster. The research will reduce the time it takes to develop drug treatments for diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. The 84-node, dual processor cluster of IBM eServer xSeries running Linux...

2004 winners announced at lavish ceremony in London

ImaGen Offers Affordable, High-Performance, COTS Image Generation Solutions for Training System Applications

The open-source software movement will revitalise commercial software rather than undermine it, says Novell Open source will force software vendors to create better products, but will not be its downfall, according to Novell.

I get asked this question at least once a week: "How do I get my open source project onto your radar screen?" The question is often accompanied by a lament about how such-and-such project gets endless press while the questioner's equally valuable one gets ignored. Public relations is where volunteer-run open source projects usually fall down hardest, even worse than documentation, so here's a little primer on how to get the media to write nice things about what you're doing. There will be an IRC discussion about promoting your open source project Saturday, April 24, at 2000 UTC. IRC server = events.oftc.net, #promo.

This vision of IBM is riding on Linux, the open-source operating system created by Linus Torvalds, which is slowly becoming a global movement. Using Linux, IBM is posing stiff competition to Microsoft in the sale of hardware and software to enterprise customers. Recent surveys by leading research outfits such as Forrester or Yankee group show that Global 1000 companies are beginning to experiment with Linux or have plans to do so in the near future. This is a movement that is catching on, with Oracle, Intel, BEA Systems also supporting its growth.

Microsoft has hired one of its worst enemies, the SuSE Linux salesman whose efforts led the city of Munich to adopt Linux and open-source software instead of Microsoft's products. Karl Aigner, formerly SuSE's account representative for Munich, is overseeing sales of Microsoft's data center products to midsize companies in Germany. He began his new role April 1, Microsoft said Tuesday.

To say that the City of Bloomington, Ind.'s RISC-based HP-UX servers and workstations were showing their age would have been an understatement. After eight years of running homegrown and commercial Oracle applications for the city's 22 departments, performance had degraded to unbearable levels as CPU and memory utilization maxed out on a daily basis.

Daniel Robbins[1], chief architect of Gentoo Linux is now heading an effort to make a transition to a NFP (not-for-profit) organization. The gentoo-nfp mailing list has been set up and discussion is already underway; the list has been archived[2], and is open to subscription: those interested should send a mail to [e-mail:gentoo-nfp-subscribe@gentoo.org]. Daniel is targeting the end of April for finalizing the NFP effort, and has submitted a detailed proposal[3] to the mailing list, which has been discussed and clarified there.

Businesses are asking the wrong questions when it comes to putting Linux on the desktop, according to Adam Jollans, Linux software marketing manager at IBM.

Embattled Linux software maker Lindows announced Tuesday that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock.