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The NSW Opposition has asked the government to explain why it has released a tender for provision of Linux software and services before making public the details of a departmental investigation into open source software.

Libranet is offering a trial version of their 2.8.1 Flagship Edition and LinuxBeta.com has done a series of great screenshots of this distribution.

LinuxBeta.com has some cool screenshots of this popular distro.

A Gartner statement claiming that pre-installing Linux on PCs encourages piracy of Windows has been challenged by the Open Source Industry Association.The industry body for open source within Australia said in a statement that if Gartner's conclusion that pre-installing Linux encouraged people to steal copies of Windows were correct, then this "tenuous logic" could be extended by stating that pre-installing Windows in turn must clearly encourage people to pirate application-level software.

New features include UTF-8 support, manifest typing and improved concurrency.

The folks who defend democracy and help make American jobs and dollars in foreign markets deserve to vote as much as anyone, but during the past year leading up to the November national election, these military and other out-of-country voters have had a harder time than anyone.

Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz, who speaks often of innovation in sales methods and not just technology, is seeking a patent on the company's per-employee software pricing plan, News.com has learned.

Astaro Report Manager collects and correlates data so administrators can respond rapidly to network threats and to strengthen defenses

Astaro Security Linux Stops .jpg Graphics Files That Can Take Control of PCs and Servers

Sun Microsystems, owner and godfather of the Java franchise, today rolled out version 5.0 of its Java 2 Platform Standard Edition, nicknamed Tiger. To the surprise of no one, the company called it the biggest and most important release to date of the enterprise application development platform.

IBM Corp. will spend more than $1 million to help fund a Linux technology center in Brazil. The center, created in conjunction with the Brazilian government, aims to train 700 public service professionals on the use of Linux by year's end.

Networking and Linux specialist Novell's company-wide rollout of Linux on the desktop is falling behind schedule.

Linux Networx, a maker of Linux server clusters, recently announced it would launch a service to help customers conduct airflow simulations in their data centers to avoid overheating.

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said that is looking for ways to work more closely with developers of the Open Office open source project, while at the same time, apparently reserving the right to sue them, according to a legal agreement between Microsoft and Open Office's major sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc., made public this week.

Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux 4 products, scheduled for release early next year, will support five Indian languages, reflecting the growing importance of the Indian market, according to an executive of the Raleigh, North Carolina-based Linux company.

The decision to stay with UNIX or to migrate to Linux is top of mind for many. So, the question becomes: When does it make sense to stay and when does it make sense to move? We put that question to the big three UNIX vendors -- IBM, Hewlett Packard (HP) and Sun -- to understand how they help their customers decide where, when and if a migration makes sense.

The pop-up blocker has been greatly improved, it now resizes large images better and places the image more correctly according to the link followed and Mozilla now supports spell-checking on Linux systems.

Small organizations face tough challenges everyday: scarce resources, tight budgets and overwhelming odds. Computer technology holds promise, potentially dramatically increasing capacity and functionality for small groups. However it's a double-edged sword - poorly/improperly maintained and configured computer systems can create havoc for over-burdened staff. As an added challenge, small organizations rarely understand the broad range of technologies, including operating systems, that are available to them. The LINC Project Guide to Choosing an Operating System is intended to be a first step to empowering groups to make informed decisions about which operating systems to select when acquiring or retrofitting a computer system.

Debian luminary Wichert Akkerman -- aka Wiggy -- has been reporting on his website this morning about a tragic automobile accident near Paris. At first Richard Stallman was thought to have been a passenger in the car, but later reports said he had already been dropped off when the accident occured. Wiggy will continue to update his site as more information comes in.

Microsoft Corp. will introduce the Windows XP Starter Edition in India early next year, the company said Wednesday, two days after announcing similar plans for Russia.