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While many Linux vendors focus on creating fancy, full-featured desktops to compete with Windows, some experts assert that a better approach for companies is to think thin.

This week's Gentoo newsletter is now available for your perusal.

Mozilla Foundation has held talks with the GNOME Foundation to discuss future collaboration. The minutes of the meeting, which took place via teleconference last Wednesday, reveal that the discussions covered the integration of Mozilla with GNOME, strategies to combat Microsoft Longhorn technologies (especially XAML), duplication of technology between the two projects and the default Linux browser.

Reading the comments at some Web sites about Linspire's new open source applications Nvu, Lsongs, and Lphoto inspired me to have a closer look at my own feelings about the three applications, Linspire CEO Michael Robertson's person, and his aggressive way of selling his product.

Michael Robertson did it once, with MP3.com. Can he do it again with Lindows? Can bankers WRHambrecht and their OpenIPO process help him attract enough attention away from those investing in Google's IPO to raise the $57.5 million he's trying for this time round? (For MP3.com he raised six times that!)

Linux on end users' desktops remains largely elusive for enterprises, but the open-source operating system could become more attractive as the demands of IT departments shift, said panelists and attendees at the Desktop Linux Summit 2004 here.

This week The People Behind KDE travels back to the 'Low Lands' or Netherlands where we visit the guy who is known for his 'gruesome green shorts', wants to marry into a KDE family and describes himself as 'very weird'. Are you anxious to find out more about this colorful personality? Than read all there is to know about Alexander Kellett!

In a follow-up to our story last week about the new software presently codenamed "David" ("Linux vs Windows: Another Great OS Leap Forward On the Way?"), Ron Thomas casts a skeptical eye over the Web site and claims of the company behind the apparent breakthrough.

Compressing Web content can produce a much faster site for users. Here's how to set it up and measure your success. Reducing costs is a key consideration for every IT budget. One of the items looked at most closely is the cost of a company's bandwidth. Using content compression on a Web site is one way to reduce both bandwidth needs and cost. With that in mind, this article examines some of the compression modules available for Apache, specifically, mod_gzip for Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x and mod_deflate for Apache 2.0.x.

Novell, Sun, IBM and HP have all managed to appropriate some of the positive kudos generated by the open-source community, leaving Microsoft looking cold and out of touch

The open source community has mastered many challenges and has been successful in numerous areas. However, there is one glaring weakness that needs to be remedied.

Saturday, NewsForge editor Robin "Roblimo" Miller hosted an IRC chat aimed at helping open source projects do better and more effective PR. This is the (lightly edited) log of that chat.

Ben Goodger has posted some screenshots of Mozilla Firefox's forthcoming Extension update feature. While some of this UI is in the latest Firefox nightly builds, none of it really works yet, so don't get too excited.

As per his promise last week, today sees the release of the second in the series of "Linux security white papers" written by the founder and CEO of Green Hills Software, Dan O'Dowd. His first paper ruffled the feathers of many in the Linux community; the second one is certain to provoke similar responses. But does O'Dowd have a point?

eWEEK Labs often hears IT managers express a desire to loosen Microsoft Corp.'s grip on the office productivity market by deploying alternative office suites. The continuing maturation of open-source office applications, along with the fact that these applications have no licensing fees, makes such a move increasingly attractive—but not for all companies.

Linux backers foresee desktop gains - optimistic Linux will reach mainstream status, typically defined as 10 per cent market share or better, within the next five years. To get there, analysts say, developers and businesspeople behind Linux will need to make some changes. The user interfaces used by most Linux distributions are a good place to start, independent analyst Amy Wohl said. Some relatively simple cosmetic changes to make Linux look prettier and more similar to dominant Windows conventions would make a big difference, she said.

Amid rosy forecast of the industry and the government’s initiative to boost its market, domestic Linux firms are showing concern over possible dominance of the burgeoning market by multinational companies.

Mozilla's newsgroups are still hosted on Netscape's servers. While the Mozilla Foundation has the hardware for running its own news server, it has no spare resources to actually set it up, create the new groups, work out a transition plan and so on. If any experienced news admins out there want to help out, the job application is bug 215294.