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Our search-and-rescue expert is back to share how he recovered a master boot record and reclaimed lost data.

[If you're a PC Tech, you probably should be reading this... - Ed]

DistroWatch reports - Puppy Linux has been updated to version 1.0.6: Puppy Linux version 1.0.6 released. The two big items in this release are AbiWord 2.4.1 and the multisession DVD. With the 2.4 series, AbiWord has come of age. This is now professional wordprocessing, and Puppy enhances the pleasant experience with a large number of plugins included in the live CD, including grammar checker and equation editor...

OSDir has some nice shots of Puppy Linux 1.0.6.

The desktop Linux "store within a store" concept follows Micro Center's announcement in May that it would offer Linspire desktop Linux software and pre-installed computers in all of its 19 retail locations. The move was in part a response to internal surveys by Micro Center revealed that more than 75 percent of its customers have an interest in running a Linux-based operating system as either a primary or alternative operating system.

The FreeBSD Project has announced the availability of FreeBSD 6.0, an open source operating system derived from BSD UNIX. The FreeBSD Project is one of the earliest open source operating system projects whose FreeBSD 6.0 offers an alternative to Linux, Solaris and Windows operating systems.

The tool, designed to protect PCs against hidden software, has been renamed "Windows Defender" and is getting a new look as well as capabilities to detect rootkits, keystroke loggers and other threats. The news of the revamp came Friday in a posting to a new Microsoft corporate blog dealing with malicious software.

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The long-awaitedNokia 770 Internet Tablet (I call it a"handlet" because it's, well, hand-sized) has beenannounced in Europe and is reportedly due for the rollout in the U.S. on Thursday. I've been playing with a pre-release one, and naturally have some questions for Nokia. But I'd rather have yours. So let's have'em.

Microsoft has finally launched updates to its Windows developer tools and database, using a worldwide event to challenge competitors and any perceptions you might have that Microsoft is still not "enterprise-ready".

The second annual Trolltech Developer Days took place last month in San Jose, USA and on last week in Munich, Germany. They featured keynotes and presentations from Eirik Chambe-Eng, Trolltech's co-founder and President; Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE and Trolltech's Vice President Software Development; Aaron Seigo, KDE Core Contributor and many others. Read on for a summary of some of the keynotes and presentations given in Munich.

Intuit Quicken and Microsoft Money are two popular Windows-based packages for personal financial management. GNU/Linux offers several similar applications -- most of them free software -- that can meet or exceed the capabilities of the proprietary programs. If you can adjust to a different interface, you might find you like one of them more than the better-known alternatives.

The Nokia 770 will be on sale at some retail outlets--and through the company's Web site, for 350 euros, or about $412, the mobile phone giant said in a statement on Monday. Sales in the United States aren't expected until next week, however, and the product was listed as out of stock in some European countries.

Motorola has sold more than 3 million Linux phones in Asia. It's now starting to ship three models globally, with another scheduled to debut in 2006. The world's No. 2 cell-phone maker plans to refashion the majority of its handsets around Linux over time

Hi, and welcome to the third in a series of articles on Security Enhanced Linux. My first SELinux article detailed the background of SELinux, while my second article in the series discussed how SELinux makes access decisions. This week, I'll talk about how an SELinux system differs from a standard Linux system in terms of administration. Most of what you already know about Linux system administration will still apply to an SELinux system, but there are some additions and changes that are critical to understand when using SELinux.

Dublin, California – Zendex is now offering a special purpose single board computer aimed specifically at the gaming market. The ZXE-855 is a full-function dedicated gaming platform that can deliver the rich visual gaming experience that people now expect in casinos. At the same time, it allows the system manufacturer to configure the board in order to optimize speed, power consumption or cost.

Santa Barbara, CA., Nov. 7 -- FrozenTech, a company dedicated to providing LiveCDs on the highest quality media at reasonable prices, has introduced a new product – the ISO Loaded Hard Drive (ILHD). FrozenTech's ILHD immediately adds 246 Gigabytes of open source operating systems to any collection by distributing open source ISO files on consumer hard drives.

The sales of platform software were 3.614 billion yuan with a year-on-year rise of 10.6 percent. As the focus of the government and the industry, LINUX reported sales of 29.486 million yuan with a rise of 33.1 percent year-on-year.

For big companies that want to use the Linux operating system and get business-level support, there are only two main options: Red Hat Inc. and Novell. And one of those looked shaky last week.

As China prepares to become a full member of the World Trade Organization, the Beijing government is trying to prove to the West that it is serious about reducing software piracy. And so ’s government agencies and businesses are turning to Linux as their desktop operating system of choice, a trend with potential to influence how the world uses the open-source software.

This review is subtitled "the Desktop Linux Showcase" which hints that it's not going to be a regular review about Mandriva Linux 2006 - I will certainly mention the strong and weak points about Mandriva Linux 2006, and report how things work in everyday use. But on top of that, I have decided to add some (well, a lot) more information; first, you will find an article within this review, about the background of the software repositories and software installation on Linux (please use that permanent link to the inline article). This will be illustrated and explained with Mandriva Linux specific tools, but most of the information is valid for all major Linux distributions.

Dissatisfied with the quality of current South African search engines, Alistair Carruthers has built Jonga with a mixture of open source and proprietary tools, which he hopes will become the first stop for South African Web searches when it launches later this month.