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  LXer Feature: 6-Mar-06

Charlotte, NC - LXer editor Don Parris gives a family of computer novices an extreme OS makeover when their Windows system proved unreliable. This is just one example of how people around the United States, and in other countries, are discovering the freedom of a GNU/Linux system. LXer will be tracking the couple, who are just beginning to venture into the wild world of computing. Share your conversion experiences with LXer.

GNU/Linux has a rapidly growing user base according to our polls. Today, we posted articles from Belfast, India, Wales, Croatia, Glasgow, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the UK and Massachusetts. On other days, we see articles from many other countries. We have readers from 165 countries and more often than not our US readership runs only about 50%.

Is price the only reason for the interest? Unlike the early days when Linux provided a learning platform for people who couldn't afford UNIX, price seems the least important reason.

What about the Microsoft alternative? Again, we saw that as barely a factor. People just like Linux.

A short analysis of the free software world in three countries of the former Soviet Union

The Free Software Foundation Europe celebrates its fifth birthday today. FSFE President Georg Greve looks back at the Foundation's history so far

March 10, Colombo: The e-Sri Lanka PC project of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) was showcased at the LinuxAsia2006 Conference at New Delhi, India.

In the first in a series of articles, KDE Dot News will cover businesses with past and present involvement that are vital to KDE's ongoing success.

Today, we interview Bernhard Reiter and Bernhard Herzog of Intevation, a company that has long been helpful with KDE application development and quality assurance.

Passionate proponent of multilingualism, Dwayne Bailey, called on civil society to localise open source software and use it to achieve massive change.

Foot dragging, insolence and bloatware. Microsoft had accused Barrett of colluding with competitors by meeting with them regularly. In fact, that's just his job. Rather tartly, the EU also reminded Microsoft that Barrett had been proposed by … er, Microsoft.

You could, of course, start out by replacing Windows with a Linux OS, of which there are dozens of free ones, all complete with a vast range of programs.

less is a pager or a program similar to more, but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement. Less has a massive number of options.

Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Red Hat, and Ubuntu released several advisories. SquirrelMail, WordPress, Zoph, Mplayer, app-text/tetex, Freeciv, kdegraphics, and Zoo are some of the packages that have vulnerabilities.

I maintain a Web server using Apache 2, PHP, Perl, MySQL, and OpenSSL; an IMAP server running the up-and-coming RoundCube Webmail client; and a server for streaming MP3s. GNU Emacs, OpenSSH, TightVNC, and netstat are just a few of the tools I use to maintain my servers.

Novell announced Thursday that as it continues its transformation into a Linux business that it has shook up its Worldwide Management Committee.

Set up in December last year, Infocom Online is an ambitious online solutions provider which holds a core mission close to its heart: to help Welsh businesses thrive through open source.

You may have seen an EMA research report issued in late February entitled "Get the Truth on Linux Management" (if not, you can download it for free) in which we examined the effect of sophisticated tools on Linux management. There were many interesting findings, which you can read in the report, but the bottom line was that using sophisticated management tools made Linux management faster and more efficient.

Interview with Ellen Carberry, Vice-President, Asia Pacific Red Hat.

Ubuntu is a well-maintained, well-organized Linux distribution. Kubuntu adds the popular and powerful KDE desktop environment. As nice as Kubuntu is, the default installation doesn't fit every user. This article shows how to get help, get access to more software packages, set up a firewall, and get rid of unnecessary services.

The Ubuntu development team has announced an Ubuntu version that will run on Sun Microsystem's much-vaunted UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" processor. That's 32 threads of power for the world's favourite desktop distribution.

One of the most novel and differentiating features of a UNIX system is its command line. With just a few keystrokes, including a bit of "glue", you can use the command line to combine a finite set of UNIX utilities into innumerable, impromptu data transforms. Discover how you can use the power of command line to master several task at once.

Two days ago, the Central State Office for e-Croatia, governmental office that works on computerization of state administration, organized the first meeting of the Working Group for Preparation of Policy documents related to use of open source software.