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NFS Server and Client Configuration in Ubuntu

Document company Xerox South Africa switches its electronic resource planning systems to Red Hat Linux running on Dell's PowerEdge servers.

Remember the paperless office? By now we were supposed to be handling all of our documents digitally, and saving trees by using computers to handle everything electronically. If you'd like to make backup copies of ephemeral content without printing it out, turn your Linux box into a PDF generation device for your entire network.

Review of a dual boot laptop with Feisty Fawn and Vista - two state-of-art operating systems.

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 8, 2007 - db4objects (www.db4o.com), the creator of the leading open source object database for the Java platform, helped solve a leading Japanese car manufacturer's hard drive problem by eliminating it.

ZIP? It's about time! PHP just added ZIP features to PHP V5.2. Now they're now built-in. After reading this article, you will be well versed in the art of ZIP files using the latest ZIP PHP extension, so you can reduce bandwidth overhead or storage usage when handling large files with PHP.

Starting May 8, Mozilla will host twice-weekly conference calls to discuss the future of customer support for Mozilla products, the company announced today. Several support mediums will be discussed in the conferences, including knowledge bases, forums, and real-time chat, a company spokesperson said.

This week, developers for the Ubuntu operating system are meeting in Seville, Spain to begin work on a new version of the distribution, Mobile Ubuntu. This software will help extend Linux's reach into a relatively underdeveloped area of computing, but this fact does not necessarily mean that Canonical, Ubuntu's corporate sponsor, should be pursuing a Mobile Ubuntu.

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Lighttpd, each allowing for a Denial of Service.

Mozilla Foundation international affiliate Mozilla Japan has launched an English language website for Foxkeh, its cartoon mascot for promoting Mozilla Firefox.

In this month's exciting episode of GNU and FSF News, we learn that Eben Moglen has resigned from the FSF, the FSFE starts a list of Free Software legal experts in Europe, Vista has it in for GCC, GNOME will soon fit in the palm of your hand, RMS visits Sweden, and the GPLv3 still can't get along with the Apache 2.0 license. Read on to find out the details of these and other recent stories in the free software community.

With one stroke, Microsoft has reasserted its number one position as deal maker and decision maker in the computer industry, reminding all wannabes that they are just that - wannabes.

A good, fairly short interview with Novell's Michael Meeks who works on OpenOffice.org.

On May 4, Robert Love resigned as chief architect of Novell's Linux desktop efforts. He has since announced that he has accepted a position at Google.

Can information ever really be free, even on the Internet?

Dell became a hero to Linux fans worldwide when it announced last week that it would begin selling PCs loaded with the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft's Windows.

[You don't reckon Daniel's been reading LXer, do you? - dcparris]

Open source and filed IP / live together in perfect har-mo-nyDell has become the first major player to show up to Microsoft and Novell's compatibility love-in.…

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Atlantik, KFouleggs, Klickety, KPoker, Kenolaba, KAsteroids, KSnake, KSokoban, KJumpingCube and KTron move to playground/games.

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 86 for the week of April 29th through May 5th, 2007.