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Software audit finds 11,000 unlicensed typefaces

A publishing firm fell foul of the law by using unlicensed typefaces worth £80,000, according to licensing lobby group the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

[Don't say we didn't warn you! - dcparris]

While Linux has been increasing in popularity as a platform for personal digital assistants and cell phones, it is very hard to get all of the suppliers of various devices to agree on a standard Linux implementation. Microsoft, which has been peddling cut-down versions of Windows for the same devices, has the virtue of owning and controlling the Windows standard. No so for Linux. But that might be changing.

If you're a big user of the Firefox web browser, there's nothing worse than having loads of pages open in tabs when you need to restart, or worse Firefox decides to crash. You lose all your open pages and forget where you were.

Is the use of embedded Linux rising upward or dwindling downward? Some recent research tends to point in one direction, and some in the other. So to shed just a little more light on this question, Jacqueline Emigh tries a different litmus test.

Welcome to this year's 26th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Alan Baghumian [1]announced a [2]new version of [3]Parsix a special Debian-based live and installation CD with Persian support. Joey Schulze [4]reported that an [5]RSS feed for the [6]weekly news is generated automatically, including translations for the current issue.

To entice developers to create sites that render best in their specific browsers, vendors have fueled a compatibility war using scripting languages as their weapons of choice while users get caught in the middle with slow-loading Web pages and potential security holes. As the market drives such (unhealthy) competition, it's clear that it's time for better standardization. See what you can do to stay on neutral territory until that day comes.

The Belgium government has decided to adopt the open source Open Document Format (ODF) across its operations.

The recently launched Ubuntu Certified Professional exams have the first two successful candidates qualify.

There are so many attractive aspects to QEMU, it's hard to know where to start. For example, on Linux, running it in "user-mode emulation" allows you to execute a Linux app written for a CPU other than the one running in your host system. QEMU intercepts calls to the Linux kernel -- from the guest app -- and manages the marshalling of data in both directions.

Leading Value-Added Distributor Enhances Product Portfolio With Red Hat Enterprise Linux

"So-called 'modern desktop environments' are totally unusable, and present-day mainstream graphical user interfaces in general are far less usable than they are praised to be." So begins the declaration of intent behind Ion, a tiny window manager with no icons, backgrounds, or themes. It does have tabs -- its author, Tuomo Valkonen, invented the concept -- and once you spend time with it you're struck by the efficiency of its design.

OpenCourseware team looking to distribute OpenCourseware in a Box to institutions to make free Web-based training material available to more African users.

Eastern Software Systems Pvt. Ltd. (ESS), an IT products and services provider in India, announced that its flagship product ebizframe is now available on Red Hat Linux.

Nigel Cunningham submitted hissuspend2 patches [story] to thelkml for review and inclusion into Andrew Morton [interview]'s -mm tree [story]. Jens Axboe summarized the current roadblocks to merging suspend2, "now I haven't followed the suspend2 vs swsusp debate very closely, but it seems to me that your biggest problem with getting this merged is getting consensus on where exactly this is going. Nobody wants two different suspend modules in the kernel. So there are two options - suspend2 is deemed the way to go, and it gets merged and replaces swsusp. Or the other way around - people like swsusp more, and you are doomed to maintain suspend2 outside the tree."

The Victorian Department of Justice (DoJ) is understood to have deployed a secure, "locked-down" Linux environment across more than 100 desktops in state prisons.

QLogic Corp. announced that its InfiniPath InfiniBand Interconnect will support the newly released OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.0 for Linux-based data center fabrics. OFED 1.0 is the first enterprise version of the open source software stack, providing users with a standardized, fully tested and robust tool to develop RDMA-capable datacenter fabrics.

Linux cluster optimization is often considered an art form. In some cases it is less art and more like flipping a coin. Just how much performance can you get out of a commodity cluster? Or simply put when do you hit the cluster wall. In this article, no stone is left unturned in an effort to maximize cluster performance.

SGI Shatters Linux Scalability Records Yet Again With 1,024 Processors Running Under Single Copy of Linux

The Eclipse Foundation is making history this week with what looks to be the largest ever synchronized open-source project release. The Callisto Simultaneous Release initiative coordinates 10 Eclipse project upgrades, including business intelligence and reporting tools, a modeling framework, a Web tools platform, test and performance tools, integrated development environments, and the latest version of the Eclipse tooling framework (3.2) itself—all of which will be available for download this Friday, June 30.

Renamed OpenLogic Enterprise 4.0, the library gives enterprises a central repository of approved, certified open-source products within the corporate firewall.