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Xandros today launched Xandros Server Standard Edition 2, a complete, enterprise-grade SMB Linux server package including Xen virtualization and more than 30 other services. The new Xandros Linux server is compatible with existing Windows domain and networking topologies.

Automatix2 Setup in Debian Etch

With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial shows people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

We are proud to announce the completion of an English version of the eighth issue of Linux users' Dragonia Magazine.

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]