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OpenClovis this week launches a series of free, hour-long webinars on applying its dual-licensed high-availability middleware and other "open standard" technologies to high availability systems in telecommunications and other markets.

Two months ago, OpenClovis released its complete telecom middleware stack as open-source software under the GPL, in hopes of expanding into markets outside of telecom, it said.

It was almost two years ago to the day that we reported on Internet Explorer's first-ever drop in browser market share.

Intrinsyc has added an LCD module and graphics stack based on Opie (open palmtop integrated environment) to its Intel XScale PXA270-based Linux reference design. The CerfBoard 270 with Display for Linux comes with a 2.6.14 kernel and a flexible bootloader, and targets Internet-based devices and appliances, according to the company.

Wikis and groupware are great for distributed collaboration between teams, but they lack the ability to provide real-time feedback to teams working on a shared document. Collaborative editors, on the other hand, give multiple users a convenient way to work together on one or more documents. Mac users have had SubEthaEdit for some time, but Gobby is the first collaborative editor for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X users. Let's take a look at how you can start editing documents with your friends and co-workers using Gobby.

LXer Feature: 12-Jul-2006

Canonical Ltd., the parent company of Ubuntu Linux, recently hired a brand-new Quality Controller, Simon Law. I was curious about what a Quality Controller does on a Linux distribution, especially a popular high-profile distribution like Ubuntu. It's difficult for me to imagine the scope of such a job. Any Linux distribution has thousands of available packages from thousands of different sources. Then each distribution adds its own customizations. Each distribution supports a number of hardware architectures. Some programs are in phases of rapid development and distribute a constant flurry of releases and patches.

Do the old dictums "release early, release often" and "many eyes make all bugs shallow" still apply in an era when non-coder users far outnumber programmers and software developers? When Linux has so grown huge and complex, and reaches into every aspect of computing? To me, the idea of trying to impose some meaningful quality control on all that is like trying to organize the tides.

  LXer Feature: 12-Jul-2006

Evolution's usefulness has long been hampered by the lack of a single feature. Because it is free software, one organization knew the feature could be added, either by themselves, or by paying someone to do it for them. Find out what they did, why and how they did it, and how you can get the patch for yourself.

[Updated at 12:05 US Eastern Time - dcparris]

They say that lightning never strikes twice, and for all I know, it never has. But will it? The question on my mind right now is whether or not it counts if lightning strikes once at home and once in the enterprise. That's the dilema of the day. Let’s put it this way… outstanding bugs aside, Novell hit a home run with SUSE Linux 10.1. There is no question that it is one of the most impressive desktop Linux distros ever released. Currently, it’s the second most popular desktop Linux distribution in the world (according to DistroWatch.com page hit rankings) with Ubuntu coming in at #1 and Fedora at #3. Those three distros, in my opinion (and apparently everyone else in the world), are at the top of the desktop Linux heap.

MEPIS founder and chief maintainer Warren Woodford on July 10 announced the availability of the third release candidate of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. Woodford also announced that due to a license audit, the final SimplyMEPIS 6.0 bootable CD has been rescheduled for release around July 18.

"This is an even bigger battle than the last one," said NoSoftwarePatents campaign founder Florian Mueller. "The software patent directive would have made software patents more enforceable in Europe, and that would have been bad enough, but the European Patent Litigation Agreement would effectively result in more enforceable software patents and encourage patent litigation in Europe."

Microsoft has been fined €280.5 million, the first time the EU Commission has ever had to do so, and, Neelie Kroes stated at the announcement, hopefully the last.
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Groklaw's Sean Daly attended the press conference by feed, and shares with us his notes. Transcript to follow.

SAN MATEO, Calif., July 11 /PRNewswire/ --

This article describes a simple backup method that I use every day to backup my home Linux systems. It's an easy method that non-technical Linux users can use to backup their important data. We'll discuss the decisions you have to make in order to do a thorough backup.

Semiconductor industry in China is improving rapidly, and the country could achieve technological parity with the U.S. in a few years.

[Not really about FOSS, but might be of interest to some of our readers - dcparris]

Open source developers released a new edition of the Gnome Partition Editor (GParted) earlier this month. Though it is based on Linux, updates to the bootable versions mean people without Linux skills can now use them.

Today the KDE team announces a new project to re-synchronize our HTML engine, KHTML, with the WebKit engine. Code named Unity, the project has so far focused on porting the WebKit engine to Qt 4 with minimal changes to the existing code-base. WebKit is a derivative of the KHTML engine developed by Apple Computer Inc.

EADS (European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company) is using virtualization software from Sysgo in a design aimed at reducing avionics system costs in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). PikeOS enables multiple software platforms to share one hardware platform, while "opening the door" to Linux and other open-source components for non-critical applications, Sysgo says.

The Switzerland-based Pentoo Linux project team has released its first live CD, Mini-Pentoo 2006.1, team spokesman Michael Zanetta announced on July 7. The 208MB Gentoo-based "mini" distribution features a number of tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities, the team said on its website.

Microformats are one small step forward toward exporting structured data on the Web; a new way to embed structured data within standard XHTML code. Discover how to read and write the new microformats for the Web.

TORONTO, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Xenos Group Inc. (Toronto: XNS), a leading provider of solutions that capture, transform, transport and present electronic data and documents, announced today that Transite Technology, Inc., of Raleigh, North Carolina, has purchased Xenos terminalONE software to automate electronic transactions throughout its business and to the company's customers and their trading partners. terminalONE is an end-to-end transaction gateway solution that expedites business transactions over the Internet and across disparate platforms.

With Microsoft trying to ramp up its Windows Virtual Server for release next year, Red Hat, Novell, Xandros, and other Linux vendors are pulling out the stops toward virtualization in hopes that Linux might start to beat Windows as the base operating system of choice among enterprises and small businesses.