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Microsoft's Windows Embedded team will host a "free app" giveaway during LinuxWorld. The "apps" -- in this case appetizers -- include embedded turkey clubs ("it's the bacon that's embedded") and boneless "penguin" wings ("hot and tasty, but with no support infrastructure"), plus free beer and wine.

[Hmm. "Shanghaiing was the act of forcibly conscripting someone to serve a term working on a ship, usually after having been rendered senseless by alcohol, drugs or a sharp blow to the head." If the free beer and wine don't work, will they resort to the sharp blow to the head? -- grouch]

The OpenVZ virtualization software is built on Linux and creates isolated, secure virtual environments on a single physical server to enable greater server utilization and better availability with fewer performance penalties.

[I suggest Mr. Galli look again. The name is Debian GNU/Linux. It is just as wrong to call it "Debian Linux" as it would be to say "Red Hat GNU/Linux" or "Petre Galley". -- grouch]

Yahoo! doesn't plan to release all its software code under an open source license because it's unpractical and carries limited benefits, Yahoo! developer Jeremy Zawodny said on his blog.

whatwouldjesusdownload.com reports - Ubuntu Christian Edition is a free, open source operating system geared towards Christians. It is based on the popular Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. Along with the standard Ubuntu applications, Ubuntu Christian Edition includes the best available Christian software. OSDir has some nice screenshots of Ubuntu Christian Edition 1.0 in the Ubuntu Christian Edition 1.0 Screenshot Tour.

Challenger to Internet Explorer crosses the 200-million downloads mark and partners with RealNetworks.

Free software advocates are defending revisions to the General Public License, while critics emerge to oppose the most recent version.

Open source teacher Rickford Grant, author of "Linux Made Easy," has written a new volume to help non-technical users get started with Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks is characterized as "a pain-free, project-based, get-things-done guidebook," by its publisher, No Starch Press.

When open source developers gather on a panel to discuss whether "all software will go open source," you can expect the sentiment to tip that way, only with lots of arguments. A recent AlwaysOn Innovation Summit planel explored this very question and others.

Linux support should head towards video, according to Belgian computer scientist Bram Biesbrouck. He's developed GPL software to record Linux tutorials, and started a website -- captorials.com -- which he hopes will become a repository for Linux video help files.

Version 1.0.3 of SeaMonkey, the community-driven replacement for the Mozilla Application Suite, is now available for download. This release includes security and stability improvements and fixes a bug introduced in SeaMonkey 1.0.2 that sometimes stopped the Location Bar from working when switching tabs. In terms of some of the issues addressed, this update can be considered to be equivalent to Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.5.

A community-maintained website has sprung up around mobile-oriented open source software projects. The "Linux-To-Go" website currently hosts OpenEmbedded, Angstrom, GPE, Gomunicator, and several other high-profile open-source software projects. It has invited other projects to join, along with interested individuals and companies.

With a title like "Why Google and Yahoo! can't be better open source citizens" one might think that our companies were squeezing as much as possible out of the open source world and giving little back.

Intuitive Voice Technology (IVT), developer of IP telecom products, today announced Evolution, PBX solutions for small businesses. Evolution seamlessly integrates VoIP and standard phone lines. Based upon the popular open source project, Asterisk, Evolution provides telecom capabilities previously not available to smaller companies.

Pengutronix is shipping an embedded Linux implementation for a tiny Intel PXA270-based processor module targeting industrial applications. The "OSELAS.BSP()" (open source embedded Linux automation services board support package) for Phytec's phyCORE-PXA270CE features a userland cross-development build tool aimed at increased maintainability, for high-longevity applications, such as machine control.

As part of a swathe of changes it's making to its web presence the Ministry for the Environment has gone to tender for an open source content management system.

August 03, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Open-source software for uses in networking applications is relatively rare, but start-up Vyatta Inc. recently released free software that provides basic router functions while running on a commodity PC.

ActivMedia division MobileRobots is shipping an all-weather, indoor/outdoor Linux-ready mobile robot that targets "intelligent navigation" applications, such as laser mapping. The nimble, "holonomic" Seekur offers space, power, and networking for up to five EBX form-factor embedded PCs, and is available with a variety of sensor options.

In the previous installments of this series, we built a good, solid iptables firewall on Debian Linux. Last week we left off with testing and activating the firewall. At this point your firewall blocks all incoming connection attempts, and allows only connections initiated from inside your LAN, such as checking e-mail, IRC and Web surfing. If you are not running any public services you're all finished. If you want to run your own public Web or mail server you need to poke a hole or two in your firewall.

Novell’s desktop solution costs up to 70% less to operate than the equivalent Microsoft products, says Open Systems Specialists, which resells the solution.

Senate majority leader Bill Frist in the Washington Times hasweighed in on the subject of electronic medical records in general and VistA in particular:'...The Veterans Affairs Department hospital system -- once widely loathed -- has almost entirely turned itself around, thanks largely to a well designed computer system called Vista. When the New England Journal of Medicine used 11 measures to compare VA patients with Medicare patients treated on a fee-for-service basis, the VA's patients were in better health and received more appropriate treatment, though Medicare-paid care, on average, actually costs more than services from VA hospitals...For more than 20 years, the private sector has tried to set standards to make these records interchangeable, interoperable and fully privacy protected. Efforts have never succeeded...'