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"At this time, Microsoft may not be sleeping, but then again it may be. If nothing else, it is distracted and we have a chance to gain some advantage here. Microsoft finds itself in quandary and a series of legal distractions."

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Mobile-Review and PDAExpertos have both published photos of a Haier smartphone running the Access Linux Platform (ALP) recently announced by Access and its subsidiary, PalmSource. The photos were taken earlier this month at the 3GSM Congress in Barcelona.

A joint effort by WorldVistA and Windows-to-Linux developer firm CodeWeavers will bring a component of the VistA health records application to Linux systems.

Electronic record-keeping helps physicians and other healthcare professionals keep patient records as timely as possible. The fewer surprises involved in trying to diagnose and treat a patient, the better.

Q: What does StreamServe do?

A: When you get bills from companies, have you ever wondered why they're so ugly? You have no idea what it's for, but you owe them $345. The information that goes onto these invoices or statements comes from five or six different places. We take that information and consolidate it and condense it.

You don't want to get an invoice in the mail from Bank of America. Why can't they send me a (text) message with my balance? Those kind of things are really becoming prevalent in Europe. In Scandinavia, nobody writes checks. They look at us like we're a bunch of whack jobs over here because we still write paper checks. They trust each other. Here, nobody trusts anybody. We could learn from some of that.

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Not to be outdone by one of its biggest competitors -- Red Hat Inc. -- Linux desktop maker Novell Inc. announced Thursday at the RSA Security Conference in San Jose, Calif. that it, too, is planning to bolster security for its Linux desktop.

HERNDON, Va., February 23, 2006 -- The OpenVZ project today announced that its website attracted more than one million hits in January - just one month after full production - as more businesses and individuals explore and contribute to the leading open source operating system virtualization project. Also, with more than 1,000 message posts, the OpenVZ support Forum has been very active with the user community.

A new DHCP (define) client for Linux is set to take advantage of an expected new feature in a future Linux kernel.

The new DHCP client is being proposed by kernel developer Stefan Rompf and will (when completed) automatically recognize when a Linux user has disconnected from a particular DHCP server and look for a new connection.

SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics has said that it is making the driver source code for its best-selling and highest performing memory publicly available, a move that will make it sought after by designers using the new Linux 2.6 operating system. Samsung is providing designers of mobile devices and other consumer electronics with the basic driver for its highly popular fusion memory technology — OneNAND™ — not only on its own web site, but also through that of the Linux/Open Source community.

The GoblinX project has released GoblinX Premium 2006.1. The GoblinX Premium 2006.1 is the special edition created to be the main operating system of the goblin fan, our O.S. Replacement. LinClips takes GoblinX Premium 2006.1 for a spin in their screencast.

Pixel is a multi-award-winning, multi-platform image editor aimed at the Adobe Photoshop market. Dee-Ann LeBlanc takes this shareware app for Linux on a test drive to see how it compares to Photoshop and The GIMP.

Over the last few years, the number of Linux music players has mushroomed, providing a variety of applications to suit different people. I've tried several Linux music players since I started using the operating system, but none of them were perfect for my requirements. I recently tried out an increasingly popular music player, Banshee, and have found a new personal favourite.

Honestly, I don't know how thousands of businesses can thrive on free software. They certainly wouldn't if they listened to the software industry experts. First there were all the claims (borne out by some real major failures in the industry during the dot-com bust) that there was no business case for making money on software that everyone could download, run, and freely alter. Now that free software is a well established industry, there comes a white paper by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems, which got reported on by ITManagersJournal.com, NewsForge, and others.

IDC's server numbers show that Windows has finally overtaken Unix in the server market, but what's even more interesting is that Unix is continuing to accelerate at double-digit growth rates.

Worldwide server shipments jumped 12.7 percent in 2005 while revenues increased 4.5 percent to $51.68 billion as companies turned to lower-end -- and less expensive -- systems for their computing needs, the research firm Gartner Inc. reported. The numbers, released Tuesday, show the continuation of a trend toward servers based on commodity, or "x86," microprocessors from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. They often run the freely distributed Linux operating system.

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Linux distributions have virtually all of the amenities that desktop users want, but moving from Windows to Linux is still a bit of a challenge for users who need to migrate their settings and files to a new desktop. Versora's Progression Desktop utility is designed to copy a user's settings and files from Windows to Linux, mitigating the hassles that come with migration. It's still a bit rough around the edges, but it's a major step toward making it easier to move to Linux.

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