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Former president of Novell's EMEA operations Volker Smid has taken over as head of operations at HP in Germany. Javier Colado assumes Smid's old role at Novell.

On this special edition of The_Source I interview Elizabeth Garbee from Ohio Linuxfest 2008. She talks about using Open Source as a teenager. This is part 1 of 3 from Ohio Linuxfest.

Just a little more than a week after AMD openly released R600/700 GPU code to begin development of an open-source 3D driver for their ATI Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 hardware, a disassembler and table dumper for their video BIOS abstraction layer has been released to developers. This tool called AtomDis was used early on in the development of the RadeonHD driver by Novell and is now being released under the GNU GPLv2 license to assist interested open-source developers or act as an instrument to those learning about graphics processor programming.

Novell has hired an enterprise application expert -- who is a veteran of Microsoft -- to help drive the company's channel partner program and SUSE Linux efforts forward, The VAR Guy has learned. Here's the scoop.

Vietnam will ring in the Tet New Year on January 26 this year, and 2009 will be the Year of the Buffalo. And for government servers, it appears that it will be the year of a few other animals as well, including the GNU and the Firefox.

Boxee has just opened up its free A/V media center platform to all Ubuntu, Mac, and AppleTV users. Additionally, Boxee for Windows has entered 'private-alpha' phase, during which prospective users apply for the software online and wait for a download link.

Thomas Hellström of Tungsten Graphics is preparing to release a new DRM module and Mesa 3D driver that supports some of VIA's older hardware -- and eventually their newest graphics processors. This work done by Thomas includes a memory manager similar to the Graphics Execution Manager and a stable AGP command submission mechanism. This new code will also allow for kernel mode-setting on VIA hardware in the future. The hardware supported by this new VIA 3D code is the CX700 and older Unichrome IGPs...

The Apache Project announced the latest version of Commons Digester, which comes with less dependency and can validate XML code. Programmers use Digester to convert data from XML into Java objects.

Red Hat Engineer Michael DeHaan talks about why he developed Cobbler, and how it simplifies network installations for datacenters and other large-scale linux environments.

Only month after version 2.4.1 (a minor fix version) and only four after 2.4, a new major version of Dolibarr is available. It's version 2.5 Main direction of this version is internationalization. Code was changed to include UTF8 support by default. This allow to translate Dolibarr into other languages than Latin language. But a lot of other enhancements make this version to be be a major version...

The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is on the front lines of the battle against global climate change. Their mission? To convince you that saving power is good for both Mother Earth and the bottom line. The Green Penguin chats with Pat Tiernan, Climate Savers' new executive director, to see what the future holds for this green-IT organization. read more

Many people are really interested in learning and implementing C/C++ programs on their favorite platforms like DOS/Windows or Linux. If you are the one looking for a step-by-step guide to get started, this tutorial is for you.

Today the One Laptop per Child Project announced that they will be reducing their team by about 50 percent and the remaining 32 team members will have salary reductions.

The plan: Ring in the new year by switching over to Linux for a week, documenting each day of the transition. Day 5, A torrid affair with Windows virtualization!

Here is LWN's eleventh annual timeline of significant events in the Linux and free software world for the year. As always, 2008 proved to be an interesting year, with great progress in useful software that made our systems better. Of course, there were some of the usual conflicts—patent woes, project politics, and arguments over freedom—but overall, the pace of free software progress stayed on its upwardly increasing trend. 2008 was a year that saw the end of SCO—or not—the rise of Linux-based "netbooks", multiple excellent distribution releases, more phones and embedded devices based on Linux, as well as major releases of software we will be using for years (X.org, Python, KDE, ...). We look forward to seeing what 2009—and beyond!—will bring.

'Spy' photos of the forthcoming Android-based Kogan Agora caused a kerfuffle, but there's a noticeable difference between what was shown and what will ship. The basic model will be priced at $A299, or you could shell out an extra hundred bucks for the Pro version with a 2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi connectivity and GPS. Don't forget that these are outright prices for unlocked phones.

Shepherding the safety of your data by keeping the sheep confused ;)

When checking out a recent daily LiveCD of Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope), the migration wizard found in the Ubiquity installer now supports migrating files from an Ubuntu installation. With Ubuntu 7.04 the Ubuntu Migration Assistant was introduced into the LiveCD installer to automatically transfer documents, pictures, bookmarks, and even the wallpaper from a Microsoft Windows installation on the hard drive over to Ubuntu. Two years later it's now beginning to work nicely if you want to transfer your documents and settings from an earlier Ubuntu Linux installation into a fresh Ubuntu installation. Right now though the only option we were presented with is for transferring our Mozilla Firefox settings and bookmarks from an Ubuntu 8.10 setup into this latest Jaunty build...

Vietnam's minister of information and communications, Le Doan Hop, has reportedly asked national and local government IT workers to switch all servers to source software prior to June 30, 2009. Hop also reportedly mandated that all government workers use open source in their jobs prior to 2010. The paper suggests Hop explicitly endorsed OpenOffice, Mozilla ThunderBird, Mozilla FireFox, and Unikey, a Vietnamese typing program.

For the first couple of weeks I was thrilled with the little laptop. I was less than pleased with the stock gOS Linux implementation but once I replaced it with a Linux distribution that actually had the proper support and drivers for the hardware I was really, really happy. I used the little Sylvania for everything. Then, like the Toshiba, it started having an intermittent problem.