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The German division of nosoftwarepatents.com have awarded Philips and the European Patent Office the “nosoftwarepatent of the month” for its patent on right mouse-clicks to bring up context menus.

Unveiled at LinuxWorld in Boston, the first offering, put together by Novell, includes the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, the Websphere Application Server Community Edition and DB2 Express-C. Initially, the bundle will be available through Avnet’s partner channel. Also contained in the bundle is the IBM eServer xSeries or BladeCenter servers with either external or internal storage.

Hewlett-Packard plans to package their products in bundles called HP's Open Source Integrated Portfolio, the computer maker plans to announce Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo Tuesday. The bundles combine open-source "building blocks"--including the JBoss Application Server, JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, and Symas' Connexitor Directory Services software--with Linux, Windows or HP's version of Unix, HP-UX.

We received an email from Dr. Nelson this evening alerting us to the pending resignation of Tom DeLay. Dr. Nelson serves as an advocate for unemployed technology workers who have lost their jobs as a result of cheap labor furnished by H-1B workers. He has found that Microsoft lobbied for increases in worker Visa programs while obliterating the workforce protections of the Age Discrimination In Employment Act of 1967, as Amended. The Act designates U.S. citizens over age 40 as a "protected class" so designated to insure US supremacy in the field of technology innovation.

Many believe that Microsoft's intent in lobbying for H1B Visas had more to do with destroying the pool of knowledgeable programmers and administrators familiar with the UNIX operating system than in finding technology workers.

You can visit Dr. Nelson's web site to find extensive research and information putting our friends in Redmond in the forefront of the DeLay-Abramoff affair. Meanwhile, we will continue to monitor these events with the help of Dr. Nelson.

Opinion: A specter of vendor-introduced incompatibilities looms, but an appropriate level of Xen standardization will carry the day.

  Thunderbird Latest Version   Simple steps to install version 1.5 with previously used data and configuration files. A few words about extending the customization to enable a few nice features.

When you click on the link below, you are presented with a graphical display of the structure of the entire Linux file structure. For those of you (like me) who are primarily visual learners, this will make a lot more sense than struggling through text or verbal descriptions of where to find what on Linux.

If you are going to print it, I suggest you use a landscape orientation for best results. A handy little "quick guide" to use if you're studying. -Trip

Virtual Iron and XenSource, two contenders in a hot market, will tell LinuxWorld faithful their new ways to take on VMware.

S oftware developer Chris Wright works from home in Northeast Portland, and his boss is more than 2,500 miles away in Boston. But that doesn't mean Wright gets to take it easy.

DistroWatch reports - I'm glad to announce SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename 'Agama Lizard' Beta9. Please read the complete list of known issues. We've created a repository with some non-OSS software. The same software is also available via two non-OSS CDs that can be used during installation as add-on media. There's one media for both i386 and x86-64 and one for PowerPC. Have a lot of fun!

OSDir toured this beautiful SUSE beta in their SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta 9 Screenshot Tour.

At the annual LinuxWorld Conference, Novell discusses its OpenSUSE build service as part of a new Linux build service framework that will become the development platform for future SUSE Linux distributions.

[M]ost major open source projects are very tightly managed highly disciplined teams. This article gives examples of very successful Open Source security projects — netfilter and Snort — and also describes some weaknesses that need to be addressed by IT organizations or vendors.

The Software Freedom Law Center has set up the Conservancy to provide financial and administrative services to open-source developers.

The Windows giant will support customers that run Red Hat and SuSE Linux in Virtual Server 2005 R2, which will now be offered as a free download.

Welcome to our issue number 40 of Fedora Weekly

IBM has announced the 'Migrate to the Penguin' initiative to help customers move from Microsoft Exchange to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino on Linux quickly and easily. The new initiative is an expansion of IBM's Move2Lotus program, which now includes more than 100 IBM Business Partners helping customers migrate to Lotus Notes and Domino and developing migration tools to help customers make the transition.

What FLOSS moonlighters with separate day jobs need are more friendly companies willing to help them bridge the gap by sharing tech support services. Recently, this can be done more cheaply than ever...

If you're the type of geek who likes tools and apps that are fast and lean, and you're not afraid of getting a little CLI under your fingernails, When is a good choice for your personal calendar. Even better, it's easy enough to install and use, and well enough documented, that you don't have to be a geek to take advantage of it.

Red Hat, Novell and a host of other Linux players are lining up to add virtualization technology into the OS kernel, but the reaction is mixed. Is open-source virtualization a threat to VMware?

We're at the end of the Marketing Era. What will it take for the Market Era to begin?

[Variation on the theme of Customer Entrapment.]