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A growing number of enterprises find open-source software delivers advantages in cost, choice, support.

Trade shows such as LinuxWorld Conference& Expo (LWCE) are all about business, and pay very little attention to the community aspect of Linux. Ohio LinuxFest, by contrast, is put on entirely by a loosely knit team of volunteer organizers, with help from sponsors to fund the event. If last Saturday's event was any indication, the community is not only alive and well, it's thriving. More than 700 people attended this third annual event in Columbus.

RLX Technologies doesn't make hardware anymore, but it does have a Linux-based software suite.

Opinion: No sooner do I write a column about there being too darn many Linux distributions, then Michael Dell of Dell says, that, in looking into offering pre-installed Linux, there are"literally hundreds of distributions" of Linux and, that these distributions were"alienated" from each other.

DistroWatch reports - The development process of SUSE Linux 10.0 has barely concluded, but a new one, leading towards version 10.1, is already underway: SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha1 Codename 'Auckland' is ready for testing. New significant changes in 10.1 Alpha1 since 10.0: update to KDE 3.5 Beta1... OSDir's got the shots of SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 1.

Q&A: IBM executive Steve Mills says the company is well-positioned to dominate over open-source startup groups; he cites IBM's stability and"deep customer relationships."

128-Processor SGI Altix System Simulates Complex Behavior of Missiles in Flight and Other Missile Defense Applications

The Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) came alive on Thursday when Linus Torvalds chose to write, in a discussion about the risks of following specs without being flexible enough to take reality into account: "A 'spec' is close to useless. I have _never_ seen a spec that was both big enough to be useful _and_ accurate." The web is currently abuzz with the merits and demerits of this point of view.

New One-Stop Resource for AJAX, Web, and Firefox Extension Development

Q&A: Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss Inc., talks about how he sees startup companies like his competing with entrenched vendors such as IBM.

MANHASSET, N.Y., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- CMP Media's VARBusiness has named the finalists in its third annual Tech Innovator awards program, which recognizes vendors for outstanding achievement in technology innovation.

Orc Software (SSE:ORC) today announced that the Orc System, a platform for advanced market making, trading and brokerage, will now be available for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 operating system for AMD's Opteron(tm) processors.

Speakers from IBM, Microsoft, OSDL, SugarCRM, Goodwin Procter, Fidelity Ventures; plus Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat

Big Blue will bundle Univa's commercial version of Globus grid software with its line of Unix and Linux servers.

Why didn't you mention ndiswrapper in your recent column on obtaining Linux drivers for USB wireless network devices?

Last October, Trusted Computer Solutions announced it would release Trusted Linux, a version of the open source operating system that is hardened enough to meet the requirements of the United States Director of Central Intelligence. This week, TCS said it is instead teaming up with IBM and Red Hat, and that Trusted Linux will now be released as an as-yet-unnamed Red Hat product in 2006.

Welcome to this year's 40th issue of DistroWatch Weekly. We are at the start of an exciting week, with Mandriva Linux 2006, SUSE Linux 10.0 and Ubuntu Linux 5.10 RC all expected within the next few days. Fans of certain other distributions might not be so lucky, though, as last week's announcement about Libranet's "restructuring" leaves many wondering about the future of this once popular Debian-based project. Our featured distribution of the week is Puppy Linux, but we also introduce amaroK Live, a PCLinuxOS-based live CD that combines the power of the amaroK media player with Free Music. Enjoy! Join us at irc.freenode.net #distrowatch

lxnaydesign.net states - Gentoo RR4 and RR64 are special DVD images that can transform your computer in a powerful Gentoo box and it was nearly the first Graphical GNU/Linux environment that supports Reiser4 Filesystem. In these images, one for 32bit computers and the other one for AMD64, you can touch with your hand the powerful of free software. X.Org, KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, Koffice, OpenOffice, FreeNX and other beautiful pieces of software are yours. Fabio sent in to OSDir some excellent shots of Gentoo RR4 2.60.

Univa's Commercial Release of Globus Software to Support IBM Operating Platforms in Multi-Year Deal

How To: If all you want to do is be 99.9999 percent sure that there's no data left on your drives, DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) is for you.