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Business and consumer users will soon be hooking up their Windows-based desktop and mobile PCs to more Linux-enabled devices, as witnessed by a new multimedia storage box from HP as well as the planned announcement of new wireless hardware from Symbol later this month.

It is now in the open that Microsoft is all set to build in anti-piracy technology in the upcoming Vista OS. Assuming that Microsoft is largely successful in stopping the pirates in their track, this interesting article pursues why this could be a good thing after all for the advancement of GNU/Linux.

Arcom has released a new entry level embedded Linux Development Kit to support its ultra low power PXA255 XScale based single board computers.

Release-critical Bugreport for October 6, 2006

Renesas is sampling a multimedia application processor aimed at portable media players, video-VoIP devices, and TV-enabled navigation systems. The SH-MobileR SH7722 integrates a 266MHz SH4AL-DSP core with hardware terrestrial digital broadcast (DVB-T) codecs. It comes with a Linux BSP, and Linux DVB-T middleware is also available.

LXer Feature: 06-Oct-2006

On the word of an LXer reader, I downloaded OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Release Candidate 3 to test it's load speed. I also tested copying data from Calc to Base, something that had caused repeated crashing under 2.0.3. Here's what happened.

It was only 15 years ago that Unix was first being commercialized, proprietary operating systems dominated the midrange of the server market, mainframes ruled the high end, and there was no such thing as an entry server, but rather a NetWare file system for file sharing and network printing. How the world has changed.

In August of this year, SGI announced that they were able to run a single system image of the Linux OS over 1024 processors on an Itanium-based Altix 4700 supercomputer. How was this feat accomplished? This week at the Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo (ICE) in Singapore, Neuner presented a session that described the Linux kernel modification that helped to make this possible. HPCwire caught up with him before the conference to ask him about the Linux improvements and where the future of single system image scalability is headed.

I've tried, I really have. For a couple of years now, I have been attempting to dump my destructive tendency of using MP3 as my audio format of choice and have instead, been working very hard to get onboard with OGG Vorbis 100 percent. However, this is very difficult when you own an iPod Nano and a Dell Pocket DJ.

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are the subject de jour with IT vendors, who have been using the term as if the concept has been totally understood by the buying audience and is well along the way to general implementation.

The ICT industry is expected to grow by 6% in 2006, mainly driven by Internet-related investments, Linux servers, digital storage, personal digital assistants and new portable consumer products. But any return to the heady days of 20% and 30% growth in many products and market segments in the 1990s are unlikely, according to the latest edition of the OECD’s Information Technology Outlook 2006.

SiCortex, a startup that makes Linux computer clusters, announced that it has closed a $21 million round of funding, led by Chevron Technology Ventures through its venture capital arm, CTTV Investments LLC. The funding will go toward expansion of sales and marketing efforts and continued product development.

Chris Brown has put together two useful books about Novell's "Community Distribution," SUSE Linux . (I'd have called it SUSE 10.1.) Unfortunately, O'Reilly decided to bind them together. Brown says his book is for the "enthusiastic pilgrim," so, once again, we've got 150 pages of newbie stuff: quick start, basic this and that, using Linux on your desktop, using Linux on your laptop. Brown does a nice job.

I've tried, I really have. For a couple of years now, I have been attempting to dump my destructive tendency of using MP3 as my audio format of choice and have instead, been working very hard to get onboard with OGG Vorbis 100 percent. However, this is very difficult when you own an iPod Nano and a Dell Pocket DJ.

Security database references: In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 20042. In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2788, CVE-2006-4340, CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566, CVE-2006-4568, CVE-2006-4570, CVE-2006-4571.

We’ve been talking about security a lot lately, and for good reason. Every one of us has been forced into a position where we have to think about it, and if we don’t, then we’ll pay the price for it. Many of us have become so lazy that we sometimes skip installing system updates or new antivirus definitions even though all we may really need to do is click a button and wait a little while. If it’s not streamlined and automatic, then we’ll somehow find a way to miss out on these important updates.

Compiere, a provider of open source ERP and CRM software, announced this week that it has relocated its headquarters from Portland, Ore., to Santa Clara, Calif., and plans to double its staff. Jorge Janke, Compiere's founder and CEO, says moving to Silicon Valley will allow the company to tap into the high-quality talent in the area. The move comes a little more than a year after the company moved from Connecticut to Oregon for the very same reason.

Canonical is the 65-employee start-up behind a popular version of Linux called "Ubuntu". The company is betting that it can win a place in the market using a strategy that dominant Linux seller Red Hat has dropped.

A Linux-based home multimedia distribution system generated the loudest buzz at this year's CEDIA (custom electronic design and installation association) trade show, according to Computer Reseller News, which has published a feature article previewing Monster's ultra-high-end "Einstein" system, expected to ship in March.

At the first community meeting for San Francisco WiFi1 earlier this week, Google fielded questions from vocal community advocates2, but also showed off what kind of hardware users would likely need to access the planned free network.