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You walk into the room. It’s cool and quiet. You see thirty new workstations giving great service. Your cost of hardware was CAD$350 for each workstation, CAD$10 to connect it to an existing 100Mbps LAN, and about CAD$60 for a share of a server in another room (CAD$1 = US$0.87). Your software costs were only some download and CD burn time and forty minutes for installation. Your operating costs are virtually nil. The server runs for months without a reboot. The workstations have nothing but network boot loaders. You back up only one machine, the server. The workstations use twenty watts each and have no fans. Magical? Yes. Magic?

OSNews has published an interesting interview with Guy Martin, a "distinguished" technical staff member in Motorola's Mobile Devices business, who serves as an open-source advocate and community interface. Questions range from Motorola's Linux phone UI (user interface), browser, and SDK plans, to mobile Linux fragmentation, to Motorola's embedded OS preference.

[Indirect link - the commentary at Linux Devices might be of interest. Click to skip directly to the interview - dcparris]

Fedora Project Infrastructure is scheduled for maintenance during Wednesday, August 30th for co-location facility upgrades. The servers will be back online by no later than 08:00PM MST (UTC-7).

It is quite unlikely that any of us will ever see an open source version of Microsoft Windows in our lifetimes.

[Well, after the funny lines from OSWeekly about Microsoft playing in the FOSS community, I guess Sean just couldn't resist. That said, ReactOS sounds nice, but I'm still shellshocked from my long experience with Microsoft's Windows platform. I can just see me going through that printer install nightmare all over again. - dcparris]

Asa Dotzler writes: "Mike Schroepfer is bringing back the wonderful developer chat series started by Chris Nelson of MozillaZine so many years ago, and inviting you all to join him for a Q&A and chat at 11am PDT Friday September 1, 2006 on irc.mozilla.org, channel #mozillazine.

RFID specialist TagMaster used embedded Linux to build a new generation of "long-range and high-performance" 2.45 GHz RFID systems. The LR-xx readers operate in the license-free 2.45 GHz frequency band, and target applications in commercial and corporate parking areas, gated communities, university parking, airports, and hospitals, according to the company.

So you want a Linux that's set up with just the applications you want -- no more, no less. What do you do? Well, an expert Linux user does it himself. But, not everyone's a Linux legend. For the rest of us, there are two good choices.

Plattsalat is an organic and fair trade food cooperative in Stuttgart, Germany. Its members run the co-op, paying a monthly fee for the privilege of purchasing goods, making decisions, and participating in the work that goes into keeping a shop like Plattsalat running. But with 250 members, making sure everyone gets their say can get complicated. In order to disseminate information and facilitate communication, Plattsalat set up its own wiki. Board member Thomas Becker says open source software "fits our philosophy, political ideas, and our aims to change the world for the better."

Ten days ago we got the first snapshot of KDE4. If you already played a bit with it, now you can continue discovering more interesting things playing with the unstable package of Okular, a universal document viewer for KDE4 based on the KPDF code.

Linux Platform Products revenue grows 30 percent year-over-year - Identity and Access Management revenue up 46 percent year-over-year - Announces voluntary stock-based compensation review.

This was a watershed year in the history of open source movement, particularly Linux, in India. This was not only because of large-scale enterprise deployments across many verticals, but also because Indian enterprise users seemed to finally comprehend the nuances of a subscription-based software adoption model.

Volunteer hackers still play an important role in open-source software development despite the many companies that pay developers to work on open-source products, according to Michael Tiemann, Red Hat’s vice president of open-source affairs.

Oracle's latest Express database toolset version is still free -- as in free beer -- but takes even more inspiration from the free software movement, albeit with a few catches. The database giant is launching into wide release today the latest version of Application Express 2.2, its free tool for building Web apps from a browser.

Guy Martin is a distinguished member of technical staff within Motorola's Mobile Devices business. He helped establish opensource.motorola.com, and works with groups inside of Motorola to better interface with the Open Source community.

Sun has officially released the source code to an identity management system under an open source license. Dubbed OpenSSO (Open Web Single Sign-On), the product is a suite of tools on which enterprises can build a unified authentication and session management framework to link disparate Web-based and Java-based applications.

Welcome to this year's 35th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Bug squashing parties have been announced for September 8th to 10th in Vienna and for September 15th to 17th in Jülich, Germany. OSDir has taken screenshots of the new graphical Debian installer. Petr Stehlik reported that the installation of sarge and etch worked flawlessly in the recently fixed version of ARAnyM, a 32bit Atari ST/TT/Falconvirtual machine.

Add a Web-based user interface to a previously developed multimedia client in this episode of the Multifunction multimedia machine series. Author Lewin Edwards looks both at user-interface and back-end design issues, and shows how local browser functionality is an interesting alternative to requiring a remote browser.

Eclipse is not just a Java IDE, it is a tools platform, which supports an increasing number of projects. The broad scope of these was apparent in Callisto, the code name for a set of simultaneous project releases earlier this summer.

Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications on Linux while Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server is an enterprise and SMB product for making Windows applications available to thin clients using a Linux server. The company says both products have been fully tested on Ubuntu 6.06.

In a previous OOoBasic Crash Course article, we learned how to grab a current word and send it to an external application. Let's see what else we can do with a selected word.