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A look at the movement to convert Indian's voter lists to Unicode.

A new issue of the series "Application of the Month" has been released. It covers Konversation and interviews its maintainer Dario Abatianni. Konversation is a user friendly IRC client for KDE. You can read it in Dutch, English and German.

SAN FRANCISCO--A test version of UserLinux, a product intended to give corporate customers the utility of Red Hat Linux but not its price tag, is set for release at the start of September.

LINUXWORLD -- Even though LinuxWorld Expo (LWE) has morphed from hacker/swag heaven to dealmakers' paradise over the last few years, there is still a dot.org pavilion in the back of the exhibit hall where you'll find the non-profit groups that are the true heart of all this. Today we take you to several of those humble booths.

SAN FRANCISCO--Thin is in again, at least for a spell, as hardware makers use Linux to sell companies on the idea of forsaking full-fledged PCs in favor of stripped-down "thin clients."

Two weeks back was the Linux Kernel Developers Summit.The Kernel Summit is a two day, developer-to-developer, invite-only conferencewhere the kernel hackers sit down and talk about our feelings. It is not,unfortunately, a hack fest. Instead, the big arguments too heated or otherwiseinvolved for the mailing lists are discussed. An attempt is made to reachconsensus on the future direction of the kernel. A cabal at its best.

The French internal revenue service announced on Thursday that it has chosen JBoss's open-source application server to run the next version of its tax applications.

Six vulnerabilities in an open-source image format could allow intruders to compromise computers running Linux and may allow attacks against Windows PCs.

Overall, the Fedora II distribution provides ease of use and a user-friendly, automated install process. We give it four and one-half stars!

The Wavebend Scalable Access System is, essentially, a Linux-based, high-performance wireless server, running server-side, hard-coded Wavebend software. It is a not only a replacement for 802.11 access points / base stations, but it can be used most importantly in the replacement of 3G, GPRS and related technologies in terms of technology, cost-effectiveness, robustness, scalability and zero-deployment time.

SAN FRANCISCO--Intel has convinced two Linux companies to give a fair shake to a crucial programming tool called a compiler, a significant step given the historic preference for an open-source alternative called GCC.

Red Hat and HP are taking Linux intellectual property concerns seriously.

LINUXWORLD -- The main theme of this show ought to be, "We now offer Linux support!" Most of the companies making this boast -- often in press releases with all-caps headlines -- are proprietary software vendors, and most of their products are utilities of some sort aimed at enterprise users, not at consumer-level desktop users.