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I kept coming across these claims that Microsoft and OLPC had partnered to put Windows XP Starter Edition on the OLPC, and according to one report, this was being done to get the XO laptop into US schools. None of this jibed with what I had been hearing from sources, so I decided to look into it further. As it turns out, a number of new outlets, including the AP and Reuters, mischaracterized the situation.

Several months ago, the Fedora Board (in consultation with Red Hat Engineering) decided to increase the length of time that Fedora releases are supported, in terms of updates. This decision was retroactively applied to Fedora Core 5, allowing it to remain a fully maintained release for several months longer than it would have under the old policy. Fedora Core 5 will reach its End of Life for updates on Friday June 29th, 2007.

I know it's probably just a matter of timing and deadlines, but it's kind of interesting that Professional XML was released a full month before Wrox's Beginning XML. After all, being a linear sort of fellow, reviewing "beginning" before "professional" makes more sense to me...particularly since this book suggests reading Beginning XML if you are totally unfamiliar with this markup language.

Core is a minimal distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system designed to be the basis for a complete system constructed by the end user. A fresh installation of Core (which will take approximately 15 minutes) will boot into a console and provide the user with the tools needed to download, compile and install other applications.

When you're designing and developing new software systems, it is often hard to see how all the pieces are suppose to fit together. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one tool that allow developers and architects to ease the process and create a big picture before committing to a particular technology.

The Digital Doorway project, aimed at bridging the digital divide by supplying remote rural communities with access to computer and Internet technology is well on its way to connecting 140 communities to the Internet. Thanks to additional funding, applications are open for 40 more of these robust open source systems.

Linspire & Mirus Continue Partnership Expansion Of Linux-Only Product Line To The Consumer Market

With an estimated 50 million tons of electronic waste generated globally every year, e-waste and its disposal is a growing problem. Sangonet and the Information Technology Association will run a one-day conference alongside the Futurex show in May to bash out the issues.

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if all the important data have been stolen from your mobile PC? For example the information about a confidential project you have been working on for the last 2 years in your company ... A horrifying vision, isn't it? If you don't want it come true, please consider encrypting your home drive. Here is how to do this in Linux.

I've just set up an"Open HealthCare" LinkedIn.com group to facilitate networking between biz devs, boosters, coders, contributors, venture-types. If that's of interest the invite link ishere. Please feel encouraged to forward the invite url to anyone who might benefit. Thanks.

Yes, Melinda, there is a choice: Functional ProgrammingBook review While it may appear that object oriented programming has achieved dominance in terms of programming language paradigms, there still exist outposts that refuse to submit to the benefits of polymorphism, encapsulation, and object inheritance.

LXer Feature: 03-May-2007

When the timing is right, things just naturally seem to fall into place and work for good.

Rootsh is a shell that logs everything a root user sees on his terminal. This is useful if you have more than one system administrator for a server and you want a record of exactly what any given user does. Despite the fact that the latest rootsh release was in March 2005, it still does its job great.

In this article I will show how to install and configure fail2ban on a Debian Etch system. Fail2ban is a tool that observes login attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or host, fail2ban stops further login attempts from that IP address/host by blocking it with an iptables firewall rule.

Web standards body World Wide Consortium plans to open a Southern Africa office later this month. Africans get ready to set some standards.

Rick Marshall has begun aVistA blog with some good prose:'...In the beginning it had no name. Amazingly, those who fought their David-and-Goliath battle to bring VISTA to the world merely described it rather than naming it, almost unthinkable in this era of branding urges so powerful we had to coin the term"vaporware" for our empty software names. Instead, the fathers of VISTA offered us abundant anonymity, a wealth of medical informatics with no name...'

A listing of what's up in Linux Journal, for those interested...

[ This article appeared and then disappeared for a while, so it was posted again, if you were wondering - hkwint ]

Michael Yuan has posted "First Release of Seam Plugin for NetBeans!," pointing out Petr Pisl's contribution to the NetBeans community. A full walkthrough of generating a simple application is posted; the plugin is still new, but looks good

Unicon Systems, a Linux handheld software and hardware technology developer from Menlo Park, California, started shipping its Mobile Linux Development Kit (MKitTM). MKitTM ($599) is the first and only unique mobile Linux development kit on the market. It gives professional developers and manufacturers the ability to create new handheld devices for medical, industrial, security and educational applications. Unicon’s patented, wireless, and mobile chip-on-film Linux computer is based on an ARM9 embedded CPU running full blown Linux 2.6 and attached to the back of a 3.5” touch screen. It is equipped with multiple connectivity options, including two 2.0 high-speed USB host ports and WiFi.

The Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA) Conference 2007 is being held May 8 - 11, 2007 inKuala Lumpur, Malaysia.