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The New York Times reports that IBM will announce a new patent policy later today under which it will significantly change the way it deals with its patent portfolio. According to the Times, IBM hopes to move the industry in the same direction by its example.

[Go IBM! This editor certainly encourages other businesses to consider what they can do to join IBM in working toward patent reform here in the US. - dcparris]

Learn the basic concepts of the AWK text-processing and pattern-scanning language. Learn how AWK reads and sorts its input data, run AWK programs, manipulate data, and perform complex pattern matching. When you're finished, you'll also understand GNU AWK (GAWK).

embWiSe Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a supplier of products and engineering services solutions around SDIO, USB and 802.11 WLAN technologies, will be demonstrating its Linux CE-ATA software stack/driver at the CE-ATA booth at this week's (Sept. 26-28) Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, United States.

Novell and Intel have joined forces to produce a Xen-enabled Linux that will work especially well on dual-core Xen processors. (Linux-Watch)

Marking what could have been a summer-long hiatus in its "Get the Facts" campaign, Microsoft is re-igniting the flames on the argument over whether enterprises spend less to manage Windows systems than Linux systems.

[And in other news, LXer editor Don Parris commissioned a study that proves he is the best looking guy on the planet. I'm sure everyone will believe that study too. The fact that women flock to other guys can be explained by their relaxed standards. Yeah, that's the ticket! - dcparris]

This article provides step-by-step instructions for configuring connectivity to remote DB2 instances using DB2 Enterprise Stage. In addition, the authors compare the performance of DB2 API Stage with DB2 Enterprise Stage running in the same environment.

[Anyone running DB2? - dcparris]

The Kurumin Linux project, which produces a Knoppix-based distribution, released a stripped-down, live CD edition of Kurumin Linux 6.1 on Sept. 24. It features a 2.6.17.6 kernel and the KDE desktop. Key features include excellent hardware auto-detection, support for Brazilian Portuguese, and small size, according to the team.

Uversa has recently opened a testing tool (with a very punny name)limtus test. The system is designed to help provide a way for ClearHealth community members to contribute to the testing of releases in a systematic way. This is really smart and should take the code quality of ClearHealth to another level. I think they are the first EHR project to do this. The tool seems to be integrated with theMantis bug tracking tool.Fred Trotter

The City of Munich has finally started to migrate to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned. The local government in the German city has transferred 100 users in the Lord Mayor's department to a Debian configuration, and it intends to migrate 80 percent of its PCs by mid-2009.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds posted an email titled, "An Ode to GPLv2" examining why he feels the GPLv2 is such a great license as an alternative way to look at the GPLv3 debate [story]. "This post is kind of another way to look at the whole GPLv3 issues," Linus explains, "not caring so much about why the GPLv3 is worse, but a much more positive 'Why the GPLv2 is _better_'."

LXer Feature: 15-Jul-2006

Novell Linux Road Show attendees seemed pretty impressed by the introductions to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop.

Open source software advocate and developer W. Jason Gilmore attended a recent Microsoft confab for Web developers. In this column, he discusses Redmond's Linux-friendlier IIS 7. In another report, he offers views on Microsoft's Codeplex, a code repository that mimics but doesn't live up to Sourceforge. -- Editor (Open Source News)

Company Aims Products at Using Virtualization Technology to Create Competitive Advantage for Enterprise and SMB Businesses by Providing Multi-Platform Virtualization Solutions

Just how many enterprise problems can you really solve with Open Source Java tools? Open Source Live will bring enterprise devs hands-on exposure to some of the hott4est Open Source Java-based tools, including Ajax, JSF, Hibernate, Spring and even EJB3. The forum will be a weekend-long Practicum for Java open source tools October 6-8 in the heart of Silicon Valley – Santa Clara, Calif.

Free software’s true believer gives his thoughts on whether it is okay to use proprietary software to make Linux popular.

[All hands on deck! Prepare for "free" vs "open source" and anti-DRM bloodbath. Or maybe just another lively debate here on LXer. - dcparris]

Debian has issued updates for gnutls11 and gnutls13. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The GNOME Project recently released GNOME 21.6. While the latest release doesn't offer any breakthrough features, it does include a wealth of minor tweaks and improvements.

Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Red Hat (RHAT) shares are higher today, ahead of tomorrow’s expected fiscal second quarter earnings report tomorrow.

[Hmmm... Should be of interest to any Red Hat stockholders in our crowd. - dcparris]

So, an Aussie, a Canadian and a German guy walk into a bar … and migrate the joint's computer system to Linux.

LIVINGSTON, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- adaptiveblue today announced that it has launched the blueorganizer smart browsing technology at DEMOfall '06, the premier venue for new products and companies.