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IBM showed a wristwatch running Linux. The operating system's potential for use in mobile phones was obvious. What has been lacking is a leading force – as Sun has been with Java. In Japan, however, NTT DoCoMo has been an ardent proponent of Linux for phones. Indeed, it has produced outlines for handset based on two operating sytems – Symbian and Linux.

Leading Linux developer Red Hat is establishing a direct presence in New Zealand and is on the hunt for a Kiwi to manage its business here.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: work begins on 3D molecule visualisation features for Kalzium. More progress in the Kopete "OSCAR (AIM) File Transfer" and "KDevelop C# Parser" Summer Of Code projects. An enhanced version of the custom iconset developed during the 1.4 phase is re-enabled as the default option in Amarok. Following the brand clarifications of last week, oKular is now known as okular. Kitten is renamed Strigi. Two security issues are addressed.

Debian-News has assembled a bunch of teasers and links for those who wants to know all about the reception of Ubuntu 6.06 - screenshot tours, videos and so far 11 different reviews are found on one page, right here

I’ve read and reviewed a number of books where the author was describing someone else’s innovations. Finally I am looking at a text where the creator describes how to use his creation. I suppose it’s a little like Dr. Frankenstein writing a manual on how to build a person from “used” parts but that sounds a tad macabre. While it’s not unheard of to find an accomplished software developer who can also write, it’s not exactly a common occurrence. With that thought, I opened up “User Mode Linux” and dug into the first chapter.

Linux Australia and the Open Source Industry Association are urging the Australian federal government not to abandon market competition.

Wincor Nixdorf, headquartered in Paderborn, Germany, has been supplying software platforms both for Microsoft and Linux range of products in Asia. One of Indonesia's leading trading companies Matahari Putra Prima has ordered 1,500 licences of the TP.Linux software.

This tutorial contains step-by-step instructions for installing Xen 3.0 from precompiled binaries in Ubuntu Dapper Drake.

It remains to be seen whether concerns over Apple's technology are strong enough to result in much, if any, uproar in the U.S. They appear to be on the rise on the other side of the Atlantic, however. Regulators in Norway and Britain are renewing calls for Apple to revise the rules that consumers agree to when they begin using the iTunes store.

Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone announced today their intent to establish the world's first global, open Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.

On 1 June Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) was released. New versions of Kubuntu (Ubuntu with a KDE desktop) and Edubuntu (a version for young people) were also unveiled. Perhaps the most interesting release was the newest member of the Ubuntu family, Xubuntu, a derivative distro based on the forthcoming XFCE 4.4 desktop.

Tux's less famous sister answers even your silliest questions on Linux and open source software.

There were 237 stories posted to LXer this week. Thursday was busiest, with 49 stories and Tuesday was slowest at 25. With news coming at you at that pace, it's easy to miss stories that interest you. For your convenience, here is a complete list of links to all the stories posted this week at LXer.

Easy to use, powerful and free! That's how MySQL and PostgreSQL are often described. But did you know that DB2 has a version (Express-C) with the same qualities and more? Easy to use, powerful and free, DB2 Express-C is also a professional-grade database. Examine the differences and migrate from MySQL or PostgreSQL in three easy steps.

GParted LiveCD 0.2.5-1 ( Gnome Partition Editor ) is a must have Live CD for any Linux User that like to play around with their partitions. This LiveCD worked flawlessly on my test machine. Please read full review!

Detailed how-to on installing Kubuntu/Ubuntu “Dapper Drake” on Dell Inspiron 1300

Vim ships with a lot of useful functions that make life easier when you're editing text, but Vim is also an extremely extensible editor. If you find yourself typing the same long commands or strings of text over and over again, it's time you learned how to set mappings and abbreviations in Vim, to save valuable keystrokes for your code or prose.

Open source Web Mapping technologies have witnessed a dramatic growth in adoption in the past few years. As a leading developer and provider of solutions for Web Mapping technologies, DM Solutions Group has supported organizations at both the core technology and application development levels for the past eight years. Subscribers to Premiere Services will benefit from DM Solutions Group’s leadership role in the open source Web Mapping universe.

At first glance, you'd think an operating system like GNU/Linux that installs in less hard drive space and requires a less-beefy computer than Windows Vista would be an automatic sales superstar. Not so! If anything, Linux needs to become more hardware-hungry in order to compete effectively with Vista.

Nagios provides an advanced server and device monitoring solution. It has become the de facto standard among other service monitoring applications, and is highly competitive with the non-free ones. This article will explain why Nagios is useful, and then cover some installation concepts to help get you started.