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Item: "Having the latest computer technology is great. But what e-government users from the public sector as well as citizens really want is software interoperability. Unfortunately IT managers still only pay lip service to such interoperability, concludes a European project assessing today's open-source movement."

*buntu Dapper not only replaced devfs with udev, they removed the user documentation for managing udev (thanks a lot), with the result that hordes of users found their scanners (and other devices) didn't work after upgrading to Dapper. This Kubuntu forum thread tells how to get your scanner back, and to make it work for non-root users. It's very simple, once you infiltrate the temple and learn the secret incantation.

“If I chose a Windows platform, I would also have to buy different packages and a licence for every single thing. It becomes very expensive.”

He added, “We have been bowled over by how reliable and stable it is. We are now going to roll out more applications based on this Linux framework.”

Part 1 included an overview of BackupPC, and some of the issues of making backups on a mixed LAN. Part 2 covered server hardware, and setting up a BackupPC server. Today we'll configure the BackupPC clients, and use Partimage and SystemRescueCD to create and restore Windows system images.

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 144:
We talk to Max Spevack from the Fedora Project
Our thoughts on Google Earth for Linux
Dan gives us an update on running Linux on his new Macbook
DRM battles and allofmp3.com revisited
And much, much more

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"Open source is more secure. Period," Raimund Genes, chief technical officer for anti-malware at Trend, told ZDNet UK. "More people control the codebase, they can react immediately to vulnerabilties, and open source doesn't have so much of a problem with legacy code because of the number of distributions."

[Just don't get smug and complacent. -- grouch]

The administration of the Berlin Senate (the governement of the German federal state Berlin) has voiced its opposition to a complete migration of the authority's computers to Linux. It thus opposes the Berlin Parliament, which called for a two-phase migration of servers and workstations to Open Sources systems.

A U.S. team and several Iraqi agencies are creating an open source portal, which Iraqi institutions will own, operate and customize. Sun and the Iraqi Virtual Science Library team are equipping the Iraqi partners with hardware, software and IT training so that they can take control of the system.

Selected students will spend the summer with OSDL contributing to projects, increasing quality of enterprise open source solutions

Linspire has been under fire lately when they announced that they were working on Freespire, which came in two versions (a free and a non-free one). In this interview, Kevin was asked not-so-easy questions about some of the most controversial topics. This is a must-read.

Arcom is shipping an embedded Linux development kit targeting deeply embedded, remote, or unattended installations demanding "reasonable" processing power.

[Includes a photo of the kit that the earlier press release did not. -- grouch]

In June 2005, Sun Microsystems released core elements of its flagship Solaris operating system as open source software, making public more than five million lines of code. The announcement sparked intense interest among developers. But, one year on, are the structures governing the OpenSolaris project fully in place and has the community embraced the offering?

Novell's current beta version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 - set for general availability next month - has some believing it will be the strongest competitor to the Windows platform in years. And its price point that will make more than a few eyes pop.

[Check out the link to the text version, too, which includes such things as:

"Arguably, the biggest factor in completing a successful installation comes in the form of driver support. That turned out to be a challenge with Vista.

"With SUSE Linux, most drivers were included on the installation CD or readily available during the install.

"In taking a look at the major features, one quickly sees that SUSE Linux is more than a match for Vista."

-- grouch]

Server maker Unisys, which was perhaps the earliest and staunchest supporter of Windows in the data center, has been advocating Linux on its ES7000 platforms for nearly two years now and is aggressively embracing open source software outside of the operating system. It is, in many ways, a lot easier to target Unix platforms, as Unisys has been doing, with a Linux stack than a Windows stack, which is why Unisys should have been supporting Linux for many more years than it has.

Uversa is offering the following training dates for ourClearHealth comprehensive course at our Phoenix offices throughout the summer: June 14-16, July 12-14, and August 16-18. Only one slot remains for open for the June dates and a handful for June& July. LMN readers receive a 10% discount.

Three computer industry leaders in Korea have joined the Free Standards Group (FSG), with plans to contribute to the Linux Standards Base (LSB). New silver-level FSG inductees include government-sponsored nonprofits KIPA (Korean IT Industry Promotion) and ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), along with software provider Haansoft.

  LXer Feature: 14-Jun-06

Steven Titch, a Senior Fellow at the Heartland Institute, first drew my attention when I ran across an article he wrote, in which he made so many misleading statements, I called into question his abilities as a researcher. Two blog posts later, Titch still fails to address facts, to present any evidence in support of his arguments, to make any arguments relevant to the issue at hand, contradicts himself... Need I go on? One wonders if he is even in the same ball park.

Microsoft executives will announce a software donation today that would give students in Massachusetts universities and high schools some of the latest technology, including the ability to write their own software and build websites.

[Aren't there laws against trying to get students addicted? Isn't this the same Boston Globe which smeared Peter Quinn? Isn't this the same Microsoft who has historically threatened, squeezed, and even lied to schools? By the way, any GNU/Linux distribution permits students to "write their own software and build websites" without all the auditing, licensing, and viral problems associated with Microsoft. -- grouch]

Click Sentinel, a commercial antifraud application that's been on sale for more than a year, has just been converted to a free-software model. In addition, the new 2.0 version runs on your own machine, keeping your data private, whereas the older version required a remote server.

[While it claims to be "totally free", I couldn't find any way to download without registering. -- grouch]

The Department of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) will soon be launching the next desktop and server versions of the Bayanihan Linux operating system.