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Will Novell's SUSE Linux Desktop 10.1 bring the Linux desktop to the mainstream? SGI goes Chapter 11; FreeBSD 6.1 goes gold; and Sun gets a new CTO.

"Microsoft recognizes that its best opportunity to become a strong growth company again lies with what it can do in the online advertising space," Gartner analyst David Smith told the E-Commerce Times. "It represents a major shift for a company that had more than 20 years of experience in doing things largely the same way -- making money from software licenses."

[Careful there, Ballmer's lips are moving... - dcparris]

In this week's InfraSpectrum podcast: Peter Coffee examines a plug-compatible alternative to Microsoft Exchange, hosted on Linux and working with standards-based management and collaboration tools, is the proposition offered by PostPath, which emerged on May 9 from stealth mode after two years of development.

If you run a mostly Linux-based network with some Windows machines, but want to standardize on open source data encryption tools on all your platforms, now you can.

Since OpenLaszlo's open source announcement, many developers have been using OpenLaszlo to create user-friendly rich Internet applications. When you complete this tutorial, you'll be proficient in OpenLaszlo and Apache Derby database.

from the dumb-and-dumber dept:
Networking manufacturer D-Link has settled a dispute with a Danish administrator Poul-Henning Kamp over the way its kit queries internet time servers...The address of Kamp's NTP server - which is run on a non-profit basis and allocated only minimal bandwidth resources - was hardwired into the firmware in various D-link products.

SELinux, the U.S. National Security Agency's implementation of mandatory access control, is the most prominent new security subsystem in Linux. It comes installed by default in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is available in easy-to-install packages in other distributions. This article shows you how to convert a non-SELinux system by hand in order to expose details about how SELinux is integrated into a system.

Documentation is a necessary evil of software development. While Linux lacks standard Windows tools such as FrameMaker, RoboHelp, and WebWorks Publisher, it's still a viable environment for technical writers. Linux users can take advantage of a number of documentation tools, including both free or open source software (FOSS) and proprietary software. All of them give technical writers the ability to author and publish professional documentation.

CEO Steve Ballmer said Linux has been outselling Microsoft in areas such as file services, e-mail security and e-science, and that demonstrates Microsoft needs to innovate.

[Yeah, they're gonna innovate all right. They have apparently got a great start with their innovative "license-brokering" program. - dcparris]

Did anyone else catch this? According to The Register, the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2006 web page is running powered on Windows Server 2003?! That's a bit odd...so I checked things out myself by visiting netcraft. Yep, they sure are. Very odd. You'd think that someone who runs a Linux website would make sure that the host they went with and the designers they hired to do the website were Linux people instead of Windows. In fact, if it were me, I'd make damn sure I did it that way.

Motherboard and chipset maker VIA is again taking some heat over its open source efforts that, according to one open source developer, now "instigate" violations of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Linux Format has an interview with Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, the director of Linux and OSS marketing at Novell. Greg discusses whether or not any company can become the 'Microsoft of Linux', and explains how the company's internal migration to Linux on the desktop is progressing.

Foreword -- This article summarizes the appearance, evolution, and current state of Mini-ITX as a form-factor for embedded applications. It was written by Roland Groeneveld, who founded Logic Supply, a PC board and parts distributor specializing in Mini-ITX.

Unix descendent soon to match Linux on features, with GNOME desktop support expected this year, according to a core developer.

After his first trip to India, regular columnist Bill Thompson looks forward to the end of western domination of the free software community

Messaging vendor PostPath emerged from stealth mode last week, saying it plans to ship a Linux-based replacement for Exchange that supports Linux network protocols and is designed to look just like Exchange on the network. PostPath Server, expected to ship next month, is designed not only as a replacement for an entire Exchange environment but also as a piecemeal replacement for individual Exchange servers, such as those in branch offices.

Linux User Groups (LUG) and Canadian elected officials are responding to the news that the Canadian online census forms block free software users from participating. Last week's story helped uncover the fact that the software used for the online census seems to violate several government policies and treaties.

While this story is about startups it is worth a read for FOSS folks. Much of it does not just pertain to startups but projects in general.

The the new Open Ajax Initiative realizes the tremendous importance of introducing new tools to a growing community of Ajax developers. It is dedicated to building an open platform in which developers can collaborate. This article discusses two existing run-time tools, Dojo and Zimbra.

Professional Services Automation solution, allocPSA, has been released as open source software under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL), allowing businesses to obtain and modify the source code free of charge.