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Daffodil software has announced the release of v4.0 of its open source java database One$DB.

The title of the review is “Xandros Desktop OS 3 is a Windows XP replacement” because I feel this comment could be true for well over 90% of general computer users (probably like you.)

Free Software Magazine launched last month in electronic format, with a print version due in April. Free Software has no central office, and is not funded by any venture capitalists with deep pockets. Article topics range from an analysis of XML to a discussion about intellectual freedom. Segments of Richard Stallman's blog are promised as a regular feature. A section of technically-oriented articles covers password management, LiveCDs, and programming free software on Mac OS X. The final section deals with economic, social, and political issues of free software. We spoke with editor-in-chief Tony Mobily about creating FSM and his goals for the magazine.

IBM is gearing up to try its hand at Linux diplomacy. Buoyed by the success of cooperative ventures promoting Linux in Brazil and a few other developing countries, IBM plans to spread its open-source philosophy to other parts of the globe in 2005.

running Gnome or KDE on this machine was often a pain. I was aware that if there is a distribution that will make my old box perform well, it is going to be Gentoo.

The amazing Danamania, who is not just a crazed Aussie but also a woman of clear and penetrating insight, scores again:
"A Bay Area man has caused a stir by finally succeeding in his application to patent eating and drinking.

Dean Holland of Oakland explains that he first attempted to patent the entire process of eating, swallowing and digesting - but failed. Diligent patent examiners picked up that part of this process was involuntary, and thus fell outside the scope of patent law."

IBM plans to launch on Tuesday a program to make Linux applications available across its entire hardware line.

Mitchell Baker has written a weblog posting discussing the relationship between mozilla.org staff and Mozilla Foundation employees. In the pre-Foundation days, mozilla.org staff was the group that managed the Mozilla project. Today, the Mozilla Foundation has several paid employees who are increasingly taking on roles previously performed by staff. The Mozilla leadership is currently considering how the position of mozilla.org staff can be revised to reflect the way the project operates now that the Mozilla Foundation exists.

Linux still isn't ready for grandma, but it might be ready for your stoner friend who'll experiment with anything or for a curious type willing to put up with some discomfort. This doesn't get us terribly far past the technology savvy desktop Linux lovers around today, but it pushes up against a point that could be called Freak Mainstream.

As competition intensifies in the market for smart phone OSes (operating systems), PalmSource is looking at ways to carve out a piece of market share. Earlier this month, the company acquired China MobileSoft (CMS) in a move aimed not only at gaining additional smart phone expertise but also Linux know-how. At the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, PalmSource unveiled four new applications that draw on its recent CMS acquisition. IDG News Service interviewed David Nagel, president and chief executive officer of PalmSource, shortly before the start of the wireless conference and exhibition, which runs through Thursday.

It's no longer a question of if Linux and open source will catch on, nor when, nor why.

HP and Fujitsu are expanding the Linux offerings in their blade server lines as well as some of their most powerful systems.

To say that the Linux Standard Base has a lot of confusion surrounding it could be a bit of an understatement. But that is the challenge Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Free Standards Group, has facing him these days.

This month in our series "Application of the Month" we show you the alternative FTP client, KBear. As usual we have an interview with the author and a description of this powerful but easy to use program.

Got datacenter? Are your servers feeling underutilized? Uncoordinated? There may be an answer for your problem, if today's announcement from Virtual Iron Software, Inc. is any indication. Find out how virtualization is being taken to new heights.

A project to create a Swahili version of OpenOffice.org has found that Microsoft's licensing structure can hamper open source development.

Miguel de Icaza defends Mono and talks about its future relationship with the Gnome desktop, in the latest LugRadio. [LXer editor note: the interview is excellent, if you can survive the first few minutes of teenage-style laughter at the beginning.]

"While many specific vertical channels have been early adopters of clustering technologies, costs and lack of general accessibility have proved to be speed bumps on the way to cluster deployment for basic open source technologies. Also, the perception that Linux and open source has not been ready for mission-critical applications has also proved to be a barrier..."

Conservative release cycles and a more exhaustive test cycle make Red Hat Enterprise Linux a safer bet for the business community--they don't have to chase the release of the week. So how does the newest release of the RHEL line hold up? Bill von Hagen reviews.

Zend Technologies Inc. on Monday introduced Zend Studio 4.0, a new version of their PHP integrated development environment (IDE). Zend Studio runs on multiple operating systems including Mac OS X.