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What is so nice about Firefox? You can install all kinds of extensions and add-ons, from a monitor of Abe Vigoda's current health status to a version of Pong, the original video game of my youth. These install easily and dozens are built each week.

New Release Delivers Major Upgrade to Flagship Product

Siemens will ship a Linux-based Wi-Fi cordless phone in August, according to eWEEK. The OptiPoint WL2 Professional will be SIP- and CorNet IP-compatible, and resemble a normal phone with a large screen. It will support both 8011b and 802.11g, and cost about $500, according to eWEEK.

In addition to improving ease-of-use, rsnapshot, a high-level backup utility, allows you to keep multiple snapshots in time of your data, local or remote, without requiring the full set to be included in each one. More backups, less space.

Danish Linux/BSD hosting company EasySpeedy, http://easyspeedy.com, specialised in dedicated hosting with co-location benefits, has released yet another Linux distribution, Debian, for customers to install remotely. By adding Debian, EasySpeedy is currently covering 7 Linux/BSD distributions in 13 versions. The company is aiming at offering 25 distributions by end 2005.

Putting your CEO's mug in an OpenOffice.org Impress slide show is pretty easy -- just call up marketing and get them to email you the appropriate graphics file. But what if you're the one charged with creating that portrait for the marketing department? This article will guide you through the process of eliminating a background from a graphics file, leaving just the object you want. You don't have to be professional photographer or graphics artist to learn this. All you need is a digital camera and the GIMP.

eWEEK Labs tests Ubuntu Linux 5.04 and reports that the buzz surrounding this distribution is well-warranted.

There are more than one operating system on the market, and it is high time that companies...large companies...start to understand this.

China’s biggest bank plans to deploy Linux on servers across its network of 20,000 national branches in a project that may be the biggest Linux deployment yet seen in China, according to an executive involved with the deal.

Review: SuSE Linux Pro 9.3 works well for general use, but it's an even better technology testing ground.

With last month's release of VMware Workstation 5, the virtual machine software is better than ever. VMware Workstation now has 64-bit host support, the ability to capture multiple snapshots for each virtual machine, easier sharing of virtual machines, and the ability to connect multiple virtual machines in a "team" setting. Perhaps most importantly, GNU/Linux support is improved in version 5.

Tips and tricks on getting Linux and Windows machines from different networks to talk securely

One of the strengths of the gratis network analysis program Ethereal is the vast number of protocols it can decode and analyze. The "dissectors" named analysis modules contain large amounts of knowledge the developers have accumulated about the respective network protocols.

During my consultations with end-user companies around the world, one of the most common topics of conversations today is that of open source. Everyone wants to know whether open source software is "ready," if it really provides a cheap alternative to endlessly paying software vendors, and what the drawbacks are. This article looks at these issues and others surrounding the controversial area of open source software.

I've had it! I've been locked in for the last time. No longer will I sit idle and allow choices to be made FOR me. I make the choices around here. When I'm in the market for a printer, I don't want to have to think about which one to get. I want to be able to just go out, browse, pick one, and bring it home. Everything should just work right out of the box right? Wrong! You have to check the Linuxprinting.org Printer Database just to list out printers that you're allowed to buy...that is, if you want them to work with Linux. I say this is a crock. I say it is a sham. There are more than one operating system on the market, and it is high time that companies...large companies...start to understand this.

Turbolinux 10 Desktop (10D) is the desktop operating system of choice. Included in the product are many enhancements and tools designed to make the migration from Windows to Linux easy and comfortable. Working in a Windows environment? Functionality to co-exist in Windows networks is also built into the core of the product. In short, this is the most robust and feature enhanced desktop operating system environment ever available from Turbolinux.

Turbolinux shipped us at OSDir some CDs from Tokyo to capture their super-slick Turbolinux 10 Desktop. Enjoy.

There's an opening for Linux to grab a much larger market share on the consumer desktop side over the next twelve to eighteen months, but penguin advocates need to pull their act together and hope a couple of software companies – or one big hardware company – decides to throw their weight into giving Microsoft heartburn.

If there is indeed a desktop Linux market, Mandrake Linux was one of the founding fathers, and up until their recent purchase of Conectiva Linux (and subsequent name change to Mandriva), they've reigned right along side other big-name contenders such as Novell/SUSE, Red Hat, Linspire, and Xandros... and you know what? They've done damn well, even surviving near extinction at one point when they filed "declaration de cessation des paiements" which is the French equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the USA. How does the future of their desktop look? Stick around. We're about to find out...

If giving away T-shirts is an accurate way to estimate attendees, then at least 750 people made the trip to Linuxfest Northwest in Bellingham, Wash., last weekend. Linuxfest Northwest 2005 continued the conference's strong focus on highly technical presentations -- this is not a vendor-centric event.

MontaVista Software will soon start shipping a Linux operating system designed for mobile phones that MontaVista said will increase flexibility and cut costs for handset manufacturers.