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A new online forum has been created on nuxified.org devoted to helping new GNU/Linux users choose their first distribution. As fas as I know, it’s the first anly only online online forum when you can ask a question “Which distro should I pick?” without getting bashed.

Open-source systems management firm GroundWork Open Source has opened for business in the UK. The San Francisco-based firm has launched GroundWork Monitor, its alternative to enterprise frameworks such as IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, and BMC Patrol. A little like Red Hat in Linux distributions, GroundWork aggregates open-source tools such as RRDtool, MRTG, SmokePing, NeDi, Cacti, Ganglia, Dojo and Sendpage to provide what it claims is a complete monitoring solution.

Novell is making life easier for IT security administrators. The enterprise software vendor has bundled the Sentinel security and event management software from e-Security, which it acquired in April, into its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and identity management suite.

As Linux for mobiles gains momentum, ZDNet UK looks at the first reprogrammable device to be released for the developer community

As part of the ongoing BSP Marathon there will be a BSP in Berlin, Germany on the weekend September 22nd-24th. The BSP will be hosted in the office of Individual Networks Berlin e.V.

The NeoOffice project has released the first free public beta of its upcoming 2.0 software. NeoOffice is a port of the OpenOffice.org codebase to native Mac OS X APIs and toolkits. The result is an office suite that is integrated with OS X core functionality.

What kind of contract includes a provision that one of the parties has the right to violate the contract with impunity? Well, the Windows XP EULA for one, as an interesting analysis of Microsoft's legalese points out. Several readers have justifiably praised LinuxAdvocate.org's "Windows XP EULA in Plain English" page in which each section of the current Windows XP Home EULA is printed side-by-side with a clear explanation of what it means. Given the fact that most of us have "agreed" to it or a very similar Microsoft EULA, the LinuxAdvocate's analysis is definitely worth reading. But the plain English description of one section in particular caught my eye.

Linuxlookup.com has a story on a program that pays open source developers up to $2,000 for extending mobile capabilities of community’s most wanted connectors and plug-ins for Skype, Gmail, Yahoo!, Open Office and others.

Out of my ignorance, I had come to the conclusion that, with only isolated exceptions, California state government was firmly in the pocket of proprietary software solutions. When you’re in a Microsoft-standardized site, with no useful leads to other contacts, such a conclusion may not be too surprising.

Many KDE users tend to take the Konqueror Web browser for granted, but that's a mistake. Konqueror may not be able to replace Firefox as a Web browser for every site, but it does a lot more than just simple browsing.

[Konqueror alone replaced several of the programs I used when I ran Windows. - Scott]

In an interview with Tectonic, Canonical's newly-appointed education programme manager, Richard Weideman, says the makers of Ubuntu are focusing on the education space to expose the next generation to the benefits of open source and "freedom of choice". He argues that open source is no longer "a fringe element but a cornerstone" of today's education agenda.

Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. announced the Digitarium Alpha 2 portable digital planetarium system. The Digitarium Alpha 2 system combines a digital fisheye projector with a computer control unit. Integrated planetarium and media display software is easily controlled with an innovative backlit remote control.

An open source, cross-platform desktop architecture from Eclipse is enjoying a surge of interest among developers according to an Evans Data Corp poll. The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) is being used by 22 per cent of Eclipse developers for building software to port between Windows, Linux and Mac OS X desktops.

Embedded software powerhouse Wind River on Aug. 31 reported strong preliminary Q2 results, highlighted by growing Linux-based platform "dominance." However, an ongoing, voluntary audit of the company's stock option program, as well as "erratic" historical performance, has investment magazine Motley Fool advising a "hands-off" approach to the stock, for now.

We're going to spend some time teaching you a number of incredibly wonderful things about IPv6, such as:
Why network admins need to get their duffs up and implement it
Nice bullet points for persuading PHBs
How to actually use it

VSIPL++ is a C++ API specification for high-performance signal- and image-processing applications. You can use VSIPL++ for radar applications, software-defined radios, or similar systems. VSIPL++ programs perform operations (such as signal-processing or linear algebra operations) on vectors, matrices, and tensors.

An annual technical and business conference devoted to smartphones of all stripes, including Linux smartphones, is set for Sept. 11, in Los Angeles. This year's Smartphone Summit is co-located with the CTIA Wireless Show, Sept. 12-14, but requires separate registration.

In July 2005 news first emerged of Sun Microsystems' first foray into open source identity management with the Open Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) project. Now, more than a year later, the project has been formally launched. Sun has kept to its word with OpenSSO and is releasing source code for the significant chunks of its Java System Access Manager required for web-based single sign-on, including session management, policy and federation as well as administration capabilities.

A recent survey by analysts Evans Data confirms a significant increase in the adoption of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform by Eclipse users. Approximately 22% of the survey respondents indicated they were building rich client applications based on RCP, an increase of 130% over 2005.

Lately, I’ve been noticing a discouraging trend from Microsoft, the company’s disrespectful attitude towards its customers, which quite frankly is pitiful.