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In 2003 and 2004, Jeff Schroeder served in the Iraq war, flying a tiny remote control spy plane and servicing Unix and Linux systems on the battlefield. Schroeder learned a lot of technology in the desert, and now that his time in the Army is over, he's busy working as a Web administrator for Comair Airlines, and writing utility scripts for Ubuntu, his favorite distribution. He believes Linux is going to "take over the world."

This year in Dublin will host the annual meeting of the KDE community, and it will be a great occasion for developers to meet, code, hold bug-fixing sessions, discussions and much more.

Versora's Progression Desktop migration tool gets better with every release. Now on version 2.0, the developers have expanded the capabilities of the software and qualified it with many more operating systems. It's never been easier to transfer your settings from Windows to GNU/Linux.

[Background info on Versora. -- grouch]

Asterisk founder Digium has revieved $13.8 million after a first round of venture capital funding. The significant investment comes from Matrix Partners, a US-based venture capital firm. Digium says that it's planning to use the money to grow open source voice-over-IP solution Asterisk, and launch new offerings to the market.

[This provides additional information, compared to the earlier press release. -- grouch]

Team releases first maintenance release of Dapper Drake which includes more than 300 fixed bugs, security fixs and feature updates

Linux users have their choice of good relational databases. However, some applications require an approach that takes advantage of object-oriented programming. Here's some advice on when and where to use a native object database like db4o instead of a relational database.

[Thanks to NewsForge for pointing to this article. -- grouch]

About 9 per cent of the UK is using the Firefox web browser, according to new research. More than one in four Germans are using the Firefox web browser to access the Internet, the highest rate among major Western European countries and one of the highest in the world, according to data from WebSideStory.

So, if a public sector web site has not been checked for successful Firefox usage, a check ought rapidly to be done - as IE and Firefox display pages differently. Cross-browser compatibility is important.

[Standards, especially the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, should rank higher in importance than individual browser compatibility. Browsers should evolve to meet those standards. -- grouch]

To aid users in the task of label printing, Avery Dennison offers a host of free (to download) software, including a program for the Mac released late last month. Linux still isn't supported, but that's no matter -- there's more than one open source application for Linux that lets you format text for printing on the whole universe of Avery labels, from DVD covers to business cards. Here's a look at them.

Part 2 of the article series detailing my attempts to use a Linux computer in a Microsoft enviroment.

Jitterbit has released version 1.1 of their open source integration software. Jitterbit 1.1 is a major release that includes powerful new functionality, including support for LDAP, Hosted Web Services, Jitterpak Encryption, and XML Any.

This tutorial is meant for Linux newbies who want to try and build a Ubuntu server box as a webserver and torrent client. It is a step by step instruction on how to do this in VMware on Windows XP to get the feel of it.

[VMware is free/gratis only, not free/libre. This HOWTO may help users of MS Windows XP by providing a stepping stone toward more freedom. -- grouch]

Intel has released open-source software to give Linux full-fledged support for 3D graphics, a move that could give its graphics chips a leg up over rivals.

[Eben Moglen applauds and AMD waffles. -- grouch]

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS, the first maintenance release of "Dapper Drake".

Smart Collaboration™ available on Spike tested and certified Red Hat and SUSE Linux Stacks

The advantages of free software are not always immediately apparent to all computer users. Many people think that, since they have no interest in or ability for working with the source, its free availability is of no benefit to them. LWN readers, instead, tend to understand this issue well, so we try to resist harping on the point too much. Every now and then, however, the problems associated with non-free software hit such a level that one can only sit back and laugh - before writing a snide article on the subject.

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Impounded cars may be a major annoyance, but locking doctors out of their medical records can lead to life-threatening situations.

After reading report after report of people using Ubuntu Linux on various flavors of desktop and laptop computers, I've finally decided to give it a try.

[Another favorable review, contradicting the detractors. -- grouch]

In September, Sony expects to ship a Linux- and Qtopia-based handheld device featuring WiFi connectivity, an Opera web browser, and a variety of text- and voice-messaging clients and media players. The Mylo -- short for "My Life Online" -- will be available in black or white, priced at $350.

A new porting programme could see games released simultaneously for the PC, Mac and Linux.

FreeBSD, perhaps the last OS that is really open to discovery as the Linux adoption rate continues to climb. With this belief in mind, I decided to take the OS known as PC-BSD for a spin. After all, their website was pretty clear that PC-BSD was designed with the 'casual PC user in mind.'

[DPL == Debian Project Leader]