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Debian GNU/Linux is a powerful and popular community-developed Linux distribution--and the basis for several other useful and usable distributions. One of the reasons for its popularity is the ease of installing and maintaining software. Edd Dumbill, Debian developer and GNU/Linux advocate, shows how to use Debian's tools to find and install software packages.

Microsoft is working with Linux software maker XenSource Inc. to make sure files created on Windows machines can be used with Linux, Bill Hilf, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, said Wednesday. Hilf described the collaboration in Microsoft's first-ever keynote address at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston yesterday.

OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today announced two new initiatives to support the global open source community.

LinuxWorld Conference& Expo Boston had a decidedly subdued air this year -- one colleague called it "sleepy" -- and many were wondering why big names such as IBM and HP weren't exhibiting. The show was held at the Boston Convention Center, a sprawling complex big enough for two or three shows at the same time, and if walking distance from classrooms to show floor to press lounge were an indicator, the show could be considered huge. But LinuxWorld didn't have enough exhibitors to fill up the floor, and many booth operators looked like they needed more to do.

New Delhi: Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) will implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its desktops and servers. This will result in the migration of all its mission critical business applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, across all its locations in India and abroad.

EnterpriseDB has hired Bruce Momjian, a well-known leader of the PostgreSQL open source community and member of the PostgreSQL Core Team, and Simon Riggs (pictured below), a major PostgreSQL contributor and an authority on PostgreSQL performance.

Purpose-driven media, by the way, are even more common in the software world. The shining example is the Firefox browser that is available free for download and has emerged as a credible rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

At the LinuxWorld Conference in Boston on Thursday, Microsoft announced the opening of a new Web site that will provide a glimpse into the company's once-secretive Open Source Lab. The idea of the site, dubbed Port 25, is to create a community for customers running mixed operating system environments.

Bas Nijjer, director of UK sales at CollabNet, points out that “the BerkleyDB database wedging problem noted by Tim has been addressed by Sleepycat and the enhancement will come with the next release of Subversion”. He also claims that “enterprises are turning to Subversion due to its focus on web deployment from design through implementation”. Well, the ones who like web deployment probably are; and Subversion's open source roots are probably attractive in some circles too.

Open Source IT Management Project Makes It Easy to Monitor Windows, Linux and Network Infrastructure Within a Single Application

Mandriva to participate in ENERGy, a 12 million euros project aimed at creating a management tool for groups of systems with a "veille" of distributed security.

International judges reward innovative character of The leading open source collaboration server

Open-source Java specialist JBoss announced a major update to its jBPM business process management (BPM) suite at LinuxWorld in Boston. Sacha Labourey, JBoss chief technology officer, said new tools would plug into the firm's forthcoming enterprise service bus (ESB). "It's important to see how our projects fit into our overall service-oriented architecture [SOA] strategy and the JBoss ESB, which is an asynchronous bus that will have a plug-and-play architecture," he said.

First Set of Common Interfaces for GNOME and KDE Linux Desktops Available in Technology Preview for Independent Software Vendors

Linux users and movers and shakers at LinuxWorld in Boston were more bemused than anything else by Apple's surprise announcement that it will be supporting Windows XP on its Intel-based Macs, in addition to the Apple Mac OS X.

Ingres executives are gearing up to make a strong open-source pitch to enterprises that have been working with the relational database for years on multiple platforms, including aging Unix systems that are due for replacement.

HP has introduced the new HP Open Source Integrated Portfolio (OSIP), its offerings of hardware, software and services to simplify the integration of open source and commercial software. Designed to accelerate the adoption of open source software in data centers, OSIP provides customers with an easy way to deploy a wide range of open source, commercial and hybrid applications across Linux, Windows and HP-UX 11i environments.

MontaVista Customers Offered Access to Wind River's Commercial Grade Linux Support and Professional Services

This is the transcript of a rather fascinating but a bit controversial talk given by Richard Stallman at the Australian National University.

Groups of Linux users have been organizing fairs in other Latin American countries, and the Venezuelan government has signed on as a promoter. The technology ministry said the fair is part Venezuela's move toward "technological sovereignty, and taking advantage of knowledge for building national scientific independence."