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A senior Red Hat executive today maintained the Xen open source virtualisation environment was not yet ready for enterprise use, despite "unbelievable" customer demand and the fact rival Novell has already started shipping the software.

When the co-founders started-up Google, their main source of funding was their credit cards. Any way they could find to leverage resources was critical. One approach was to use open source software. Basically, this is software that is freely available – so long as all additions to the software is also made free.

Two reports over the past week, plus one in the previous two weeks, add to the growing recognition that the internet browser space is the theatre upon whose stage the battle for IT marketshare will be fought in future.

Boeing has awarded Wind River Systems a contract to embed its version of Linux -- along with a new batch of products built around the open-source operating system -- into a new military aircraft.

New Release Anticipates Customer Demand in Key Growth Segments of the Device Software Optimization Industry

Mega-millionaire Bob Young, the red-hat wearing Canadian who brought Linux software to the commercial world and acquired the Hamilton Tiger-Cats football club, has something else on his mind these days: Internet video.

[The above is the only direct connection this story has to GNU/Linux, but I couldn't resist. -- grouch]

On a recent sunny Saturday near the banks of the Willamette River, teenagers gathered on a warehouse loading dock called the "smash zone." Before a crowd of cheering onlookers, they took baseball bats to their old computer printers and fax machines, breaking them into hundreds of pieces before the remnants were swept into a giant recycling bin. Welcome to Geek Fair 2006.

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"There are so many computer illiterate people out there who have lots of money," says Clayton Kern, an environmental biology major at Unity College in Unity, Maine, who makes it a habit to pick up and recycle computers left on the curb. "If some small, easily fixable thing breaks on their two-year-old computer, they just chuck it and get a new one."

Wind River's Unique Build Methodology Enables Use of Standard Open Source Linux for Aerospace and Defense Application

ActiveState Software Inc., the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages, today announced the technical pre-release of Komodo 4.0, introducing advanced support for Web 2.0 technologies to the award-winning IDE for dynamic languages. The release is available for download now.

Last week, I listed the Top five things Linux can learn from Microsoft. Well, it's a two-way street: Microsoft could really stand to learn a few things from Linux, too.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Work begins on integrating C# support in KDevelop, as the second phase of the "C# parser for KDevelop" Summer Of Code project, whilst a companion effort concurrently starts to support Java. Eigen, a matrix and vector mathematics library is begun. okular is ported to QGraphicsView. Infrastructure improvements in Solid and Kalzium. "Siox" tool ported to Krita.

I've tried this on Debian to no avail. I've tried it on Ubuntu but it didn't work out. However, I made the mistake of trying it from inside of Firefox.

The open-source Linux operating system has made deep in-roads into the servers of large companies, but employee desktop's have so far remained Microsoft's stronghold.

[Much of this article compares SUSE to MS, with SUSE coming out on top. However, it concludes with this strange comment: "Hopefully Microsoft will respond by making its own software faster, more stable, more innovative, more secure and less hungry for memory and processor power." I say it is strange because the author appears to be advocating avoiding what is here and works, in favor of what might come about under some hoped-for scenario. Haven't people suffered long enough to see how false that hope is? -- grouch]

The idea is very simple you want to limit who can use sshd based on a list of users. The text file contains a list of users that may not log in (or allowed to log in) using the SSH server. This is use for improving security.

Another option is to limit users using sshd's AllowUser or DenyUser directives.

Mozilla revealed yesterday that it has released a new update patch for its popular Internet browser, Firefox. This is expected to be the fifth and last update for the current Firefox series before the release of Firefox 2.0, which is expected to be released on September 26.

DistroWatch reports - The first release candidate of Freespire, labelled as version 1.0.2, is available now. From the release notes: CNR Proxy functionality still unavailable; Apt pools not yet updated completely, so apt-get dist-upgrade will not get everything; Warn if user chooses an existing username during install; Add kcontrol module for mailto handling; Fix display/resolution controls in startup wizard... OSDir has some great screenshots of the upcoming Freespire in the Freespire RC 1 Screenshot Tour.

This is part four of the the successful series All About the Apps, reminding us that while KDE 4 development may be fun, to watch to find great apps working today KDE 3 beats them all. This time we report on the Linux equivalent of Cubase - Rosengarden, the great Basket, KPhotoAlbum and the next version of KDevelop.

ObjectWeb and eXo Platform SARL today announced the availability of the first complete open-source content management and repository solutions that allow users to create, manage and store documents from a customized, single point-of-access Web portal.

In its short but illustrious history the FOSS movement has been accused of being akin to communism. And while the bad old days of the McCarthy era are over, this view still makes people a bit antsy. Not many people want to be seen internationally as the reds under the bed, and using the communist label is still a convenient way of writing off somebody you don’t like. However, there have been some interesting new developments with Microsoft saying things recently that suggests a couple of things: Microsoft have decided that they will begrudgingly admit that there are some merits in open source (previously referred to by their illustrious leader as “communism”); and that Microsoft are softening in their old age and have decided that being all powerful is no fun if everyone thinks you’re the school bully.

A full year ahead of schedule IBM has brought Lotus Notes to the Linux desktop. A Linux client for Notes wasn’t expected until the arrival of Hannover, the next major release of the Notes platform, in 2007. But Big Blue had a surprise up its sleeve and, earlier this month, it announced the availability of a Linux version of the current Notes 7 client.