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Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that it would be offering crippled versions of Windows at a reduced rate to developing countries. The company said that the strategy is meant to address piracy that is prevalent in these areas due to a public that receives exceptionally lower income levels as compared to the rest of the world. David Sugar submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews, which shows that Microsoft's intentions aren't as noble as the company implies and that this is simply one more example of the company using its illegal monopoly position to stifle competition.

Early adopters of Novell's Nterprise Linux Services say the package lets them consolidate server operating systems and offers a smooth migration path to Linux from NetWare servers.

In an earlier column, we went over the basics of creating key-pairs: the public and secret versions of your GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) keys. But if you're a government employee who wants to become a whistle-blower and report corruption, evil-doers, or gross mismanagement, you'll need to do more than create your keys. You'll need to encrypt and sign the email you send me with your exposé.

..and chances are high they also can monitor all other communication systems. Big brother can read your e-mail and so forth. Luckily, protection is available. The protection is GNU Privacy Guard, a tool allowing you to secure your mail and instant message chats. The voice and video phone program Gnomemeeting allows you to call other Internet users free, but it does not support encryption.

MySQL AB's namesake database is a package that many would list among the crown jewels of Free Software. The Swedish company's database has been deployed over five million times by the company's own count. Yet, some, quite legitimately wondered if certain wording on the MySQL site might indicate the company is backing away from Free Software, and, more specifically, the GNU General Public License. We wanted to know if this was an actual concern or simply a misunderstanding, so OfB contacted MySQL AB to find out more information.

Covering the announced EOL for Fedora Core 1, many new updates in the Docs project, and plenty of talk about porting Fedora to other platforms - Intel IXP2400, SGI's Altix (ia64), and even Alpha. Some developer talk about updating current releases, as well as developing test suites for Fedora. And plenty more...!

A North Asian government alliance to promote the Linux operating system and reduce dependence on Microsoft's Windows plans to release its first products for China in six months, a senior official said on Monday.

With KDE 3.2 reaching a status of stable and mature, a lot of work has been going into the next and final release of the 3.x series, 3.3. Because 3.3 recently hit beta status, we caught up with KDE developer George Staikos to talk about all things KDE.

Ever have a really cool project or program you wanted to share with the world? Concerned and worried about how to do it right? Or have you already released a project only to find no one cared? Ever wonder what went wrong?

The latest version of KDE beta 3.3 has been deemed stable enough for a public release candidate. The KDE team requests that all testers try and break this release as soon as possible, as the bug reports are invaluable to the developers.

Yoper Linux V2 was released a few weeks ago (July 13, 2004). After reading the release announcement on Yoper's website, I decided I had to try it. Yoper claims that version V2 "is the fastest Out-of-the-Box Linux system in the World".

Get an introduction to DParser, a simple but powerful tool for parsing. Then learn about DParser for Python, which gives Python programmers a seamless interface to DParser, and see how it compares to other parsers covered in previous installments. In a manner similar to Spark or PLY, grammar rules are input to DParser using Python function documentation strings.

The IBM Linux Speed-start program is providing a free Software Evaluation Kit(SEK) loaded with the latest IBM middleware that has been ported to Linux. This is the easiest way to get access to all of new releases of IBM Linux tools and products.

If you haven't seen Conectiva in action this is a must see. LinuxBeta.com has prepared a slideshow of this polished Brazilian distribution. The desktop launches in portuguese but is switched to english. Warning: you may be converted :)

Anxiously awaiting the Wednesday release of KDE 3.3? The KDE 3.3 Beta 2 slideshow by LinuxBeta.com may tie you over until then. The screenshots are from Openbase's OnebaseGo-2.1-KDE3.3b2.