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Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering.

[This should answer many of the questions LXer readers have about Dell's upcoming Ubuntu Linux offering - dcparris]

Roberto Moreno was on the bubble, although not necessarily in danger of missing the Indianapolis 500. But instead of waiting to see what the likes of Jimmy Kite or P.J. Jones could do in their unqualified machines, the 48-year-old Brazilian took his status into his own hands, pulling a slow speed off the board and replacing it with a stout effort better than those of a half-dozen cars on the grid.

I just got back from the track... and what a day for Chastain Motorsports... what a day for Roberto Moreno... what a day for the Linux community!

Ever wished you could display more than one site in Firefox at a time? I'm not talking about tabbed browsing, I'm talking about seeing two sites next to one another without having to juggle two browser windows. Firefox doesn't do this natively, but with the Split Browser extension, you can juggle two or more sites in one browser window.

We've had screaming allegations of fraud, screaming tires and people as our car slammed into a wall at two hundred miles per hour. (alleged) screams in the small hours of the morning as Chastain crew members battled the clock to put a car back together. Even screams of joy as Robert Moreno amazingly squeezed an additional 4 miles per hour out of a car that had been a doorstop less than 72 hours before.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: User-visible functionality added in Plasma. Support for animated SVG images in SuperKaramba.

What makes Windows users so darn dumb?

This session will look at real EHR selection and implementation scenarios that didn't quite go according to plan. In this highly interactive session, the audience will be able to ask questions or present their own scenarios, obtain specifics pertaining to open source software such as advantages including free software and ability to modify easily, and obstacles such as limited support options.

Microsoft has no plans to support OpenDocument Format in its own applications by default, despite the fact it has backed the ODF for ANSI accreditation.

[More BS from MS - dcparris]

Eben Moglen is saying that the SUSE vouchers Microsoft is distributing have no expiration date! I didn't know this. It's huge. This is, according to Moglen's remarks, another defense to any patent infringement claim by Microsoft, and it may well bring that campaign to a screeching halt. Here's why. Someone, Moglen says, is bound to turn a voucher it got from Microsoft in after GPLv3 goes into effect and GPLv3 code is being distributed, and at that moment Microsoft comes under its terms. And that should mean the end of Microsoft's ability to successfully sue anybody over its alleged patents allegedly in Linux, or to phrase it more exactly, it provides a probable defense to all Linux users and vendors, not just Novell's paying customers, if Microsoft does sue.

[I didn't see this until today. - Scott]

NoMachine NX is a Terminal Server and Remote Access solution based on open source technologies. It makes it possible to run any graphical application on any operating system across any network connection as if you were sitting in front of your computer.

Feel OS vendor has them by their RupeesComputer dealers in Gujarat, India held a one-day strike to protest ongoing anti-piracy raids from Microsoft.

[I quit doing business with Microsoft a long time ago. Any GNU/Linux evangelists in the area? - dcparris]

LXer Feature: 20-May-2007

A weekly recap of the big stories concerning Linux and Open Source.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a CentOS 5.0 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (virtual machines) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

Dell reportedly will release its new Ubuntu-powered computers on May 24. In his blog, LinuxQuestions.org founder Jeremy Garcia writes that a Dell staffer told him, "We will be launching a Linux based OS (Ubuntu) on the E520, 1505 and XPS 410 starting next Thursday, 5/24."

A warm welcome to all fans of football manager games. I’d like to present you BygFoot — an open-source alternative for the well-known Championship Manager.

Apple and Amazon.com are planning to offer music that is devoid of Digital Rights Management (DRM).

This article explores the Ruby caching strategies that are available to you to increase performance.

The HIG Hunting Season for KDE 4 continues. This week we focus is on the written word with a new checklist on text and fonts. Are you impatiently waiting for KDE 4? Would you like to help KDE make this release a full success? Then get involved! Read on for more details.

I sat through an interesting debate recently on the Austin Linux Group mailing list over the meaning of the term "distro." Some LUG members felt "distro" implies Linux, while others took a wider view, claiming it could be any one of several possible platforms, including OpenSolaris.

[Technically, a distribution is any software package, since software is, after all, "distributed", not sold. You can get a distribution of KDE or of Gnumeric or a given programming language or library. - dcparris]