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Looking to deploy Linux in the enterprise without a price tag? In this DesktopLinux.com feature, Tom Adelstein teaches users how to put together an enterprise Linux desktop using freely available sources. Offering budget conscious users a guide for a Linux-based system suitable for business, the article highlights the similarities between Red Hat's legacy 7.3 software and current Enterprise Linux 3.0. Adelstein rebuilds servers running Red Hat 7.3 using RHEL source rpms and provides offers a step-by-step tutorial for companies that are searching for a reliable DIY Linux IT solution.

IBM today introduced new eServer p5 systems, a line of Unix and Linux servers that use POWER5 microprocessors and Virtualization Engine technology to achieve ''unprecedented computing performance'' and reduced cost.

Mindful of the emerging shift to the inexpensive Linux platform among local businesses, the Philippine subsidiary of technology behemoth HP has struck an agreement with a Malaysian server software maker to come up with a server package targeted for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

"The Definitive Guide to Plone" is a solid resource for tapping the open-source content management system's potential.

BASEL, 19 August 2004 Just a month ago the very first Linuxcafé in Switzerland opened in Basel. The swiftly rising numbers of visitors are giving clear evidence that it is a successful concept.

An Australian city has signed a contract to replace Microsoft's Windows-desktop system on several thousand PCs with Sun Microsystems's products, Sun officials said Friday.

The open-source movement has taken the world by storm. Get ready for it to turn its sights on marketing and advertising. Marketing has long promised interactivity, but it's remained more myth than reality. Maybe we got it wrong. Perhaps what people want isn't click-and-branch "interactive" marketing. Perhaps what they want is creative freedom and control. Perhaps what they want is open-source marketing.

LUDWIGSBURG, GERMANY -- During the opening day of KDE's World Summit -- aKademy -- the idea that there's no such thing as a free lunch was easily dismissed thanks to meal tickets from IBM and a local cafe, though sadly those who convened to discuss and celebrate free software weren't rewarded with free beer. With approximately half a thousand people currently registered, months of preparation have turned into a day of frantic setting up and a lively meeting of the KDE Project's governing board, the KDE e.V.

Last month I decided to switch from Windows to Linux full-time. My reasons were many, but it really gets down to two things: Windows wasn't working for me the way I wanted it to, and after testing out Mandrake 10 on my server box, I decided that if any distro was ready for the desktop, it was Mandrake 10.

Builder Australia recently caught up with PHP innovator Rasmus Lerdorf, to find out about the success of PHP, the open source movement around the world, other scripting languages and what we can expect to see in the next generation of the dynamic scripting language.

Linux without KDE or GNOME? You bet! GNUstep Live CD uses the popular and appealing GNUstep desktop environment. Who said Linux has to look like Microsoft Windows anyway ;)

As further testament to the growing popularity of open-source software among regional governments, South Korea's education ministry could soon switch to the Linux operating system.

The largest open-source project in the South Korean public sector - the National Education Information System or NEIS - is hitting its stride. Bearing Point Korea on Friday submitted a final advisory report for NEIS to the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (MOE), the organisation managing the project.