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LXer Feature: 15-Aug-2006

Don Parris talks with Nathan Aherne of Reddog Technology about selling computers with Ubuntu's GNU/Linux system pre-installed in Australia. Anyone interested in selling computers with GNU/Linux pre-installed should pay attention here, as Nathan makes at least one or two important points.

DistroWatch reports - The long development process of Slackware Linux 11.0 is about to conclude - that's according to Patrick Volkerding who has declared the current tree as RC1: There are still a few changes yet to happen, but let's call this Slackware 11.0 release candidate 1. OSDir has some sweet shots of Slackware 11.0 RC1 in the Slackware 11.0 RC1 Screenshot Tour.

DistroWatch reports - The new generation of Elive has started and the beta-3.1 for the future version 0.5 is officially released. Version 0.5 is based on Dsslive with kernel 2.6.15 and X.Org 7.0. Other new features include SATA support, better compatibility with amd64 processors, new drivers for wireless networking, and several improvements to the hard disk installer. OSDir has some nice shots of Elive in the Elive 0.5 Beta 3.1 Screenshot Tour.

SAP's move to expand its in-memory technology beyond its business intelligence confines to broader enterprise data sets has sparked debate over the potential threat to database vendors.

Open source collaboration will provide device manufacturers and operators with an open alternative to closed, proprietary systems

At the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, the Free Standards Group (FSG), a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and promoting open source software standards, today announced that two of the most important and widely-used applications on Linux -- RealPlayer and the MySQL database -- are certifying to the Linux Standard Base.

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One of Europe's most successful private companies has chosen Open Source software to control its pan-European network. Kepak Group has asked Sirius Corporation to deploy an OpenLDAP-based Identity Management solution to serve its 2000 staff based in Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK.

LINUXWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO - The latest San Franciso edition of the most popular U.S. business-oriented Linux event got going on Monday, August 14. Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier and I are covering it for NewsForge and Linux.com. Not a lot happened on the show's first day, so I wandered around and asked a number of people, "What do you expect from LinuxWorld this time around?"

GPU is a Gnutella client that creates ad-hoc supercomputers by allowing individual PCs on the network to share CPU resources with each other. That's intriguing enough, but the really interesting thing about GPU is the license its developers have given it. They call it a "no military use" modified version of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

FreeMED 0.8.3, an enterprise-grade opensource electronic medical record / practice management package, has been officially released by theFreeMED Software Foundation.FreeMED's website has also been updated to provide a more community oriented portal for information about the software.

The world has plenty of open source programmers, but there's a dearth of information systems managers familiar with open source. Greg Allen, assistant professor of professional studies at George Fox University, is looking to fix that. To that end, the university is requiring undergraduate students in the management and business information systems program to solve real-world IT problems using open source software as part of the course requirements.

On Monday at LinuxWorld, IBM announced the first Linux desktop client for its Lotus Sametime instant messaging and collaboration platform, along with plans to add voice messaging to Sametime.

A Boston-based group on Monday posted the second post-beta version of a Firefox knock-off browser that promises to start faster and consume fewer PC resources.

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IBM is preparing a Linux version of Lotus Sametime for release in September. The company said that the Linux version of Sametime 7.5 would be the first open source version of the enterprise IM system.

[Non-free and futureware? -- grouch]

K-Meleon 1.0 has been released. K-Meleon is a standalone Gecko-based browser for Windows, designed to be light, fast and highly customisable.

Red Hat has claimed that Xen virtualisation isn't ready for prime time, sparking a rebuttal from Novell

The Mozilla project scuttled development for the legacy Mozilla Suite in 2005 after shifting focus to work on Firefox and Thunderbird. However, rather than abandoning the project entirely, the Mozilla Project provided the infrastructure to allow the community to continue development of the Mozilla Suite as SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey 1.0.4 was released recently, so I decided this would be a good time to check in on SeaMonkey to see where it stands. The suite holds up well, but it's losing ground rapidly to Firefox and Thunderbird.

For a long time, it's been a given that anything on our Web site that includes the word "Linux" will generate an extra-special amount of reader traffic. But I never dreamed this week's LinuxWorld conference track on "Linux in the Channel" would be sold out—more than five times the anticipated attendees registered.