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LXer Feature: 21-Oct-2006

Here is an invitation, in German, to a two-day 'Perspektive Open Source' during the SYSTEMS in Munich. This is the first post in German, so please comment in German, should you choose to discuss it.

LXer Feature: 21-Oct-2006

LXer will begin posting German-language articles to the newswire.

Five thousand French students now have laptops running Ubuntu, thanks to a local government initiative.

French readers can get the details from here

[O.k., so they dual-boot. At least the students have an option. - dcparris]

Novell Inc and IBM Corp have delivered their promised Integrated Stack for Linux, which combines open and closed source middleware and database offerings with Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM hardware.

Benefitting from an unlimited network storage capacity, KoffeePhoto is an innovative answer to photo sharing needs.

[Reader Beware: This is freeware - not Free Software. It's availability for GNU/Linux systems is the only reason I'm posting this. You'll have to decide for yourself whether this has any value. - dcparris]

The Linux Professional Institute held a series of "beta" exams for its forthcoming level three certification. The LPIC-3 certification is expected to be released in January 2007.

With Microsoft's Vista looking more like a joke everyday, there is a real opportunity for Linux to make a true attempt to go for the mainstream user. Unfortunately, it’s their openness and freedom that is holding them back. Obviously we are not going to see the Linux companies out there working together as they are after all, still competing with one another. But there are some things that they can do to enable the development community in such a way that it will give Windows a run for its money unlike anything the world has ever seen before.

My friend Bjorn Stabbel posed some interesting questions about the lack of enthusiasm for open source in China. Bjorn is an owner in a software development company, Exoweb, that specializes in content Management systems using Python and Plone development.

Red Hat, Inc. organised the first Red Hat Developer Day in India in Bangalore on 18 October 2006. The one-day Red Hat event brought together Linux developers and users to facilitate the growth of open source technologies, development, techniques, tools and standards through the sharing of technical knowledge and expertise.

Here's a preview of the Explorer-Firefox battlefield:

FAVE is an event in the UK for people who are interested in free audio and video software on Linux and other platforms. I'm helping to put together the second annual event, which will feature talks, workshops and performances by free software artists and developers.

The open-source movement, which has long made inroads into corporations via Linux and other enterprise-level software, now has a potentially bigger target in its cross hairs: the PBXs and network routers from companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. that form the basis of networking infrastructure.

KBOX Appliances Grow in Popularity Among Cost-Conscious Agencies Requiring Secure, Enterprise-Grade Systems Management

Mentora Group announced that it has deployed the GroundWork Monitor Professional monitoring framework from Groundwork Open Source to support its Application Hosting customers.

October 17, 2006 (Network World) -- Novell Inc. is three years into its transformation from a NetWare-centric software vendor to first and foremost a member in good standing of the Linux community. Along the way there has been great debate about the fate of the company's legacy products, including NetWare, and a complete overhaul of upper management.

Demand from customers -- particularly in the government sector -- who use open source servers such as Linux was one of the main reasons for it to move toward open source standards, said Microsoft spokesperson Tom Brookes. He said it was not connected to Microsoft's rows with EU regulators over supplying interoperability information to rivals.

[O.k., someone clue me in. Define "Open Source Standard". Do they mean "open source" or "open standards"? And does this mean that Microsoft admits that sharing can be good, or just better than the alternative? - dcparris]

Somewhere on an old backup disc buried under a stack of magazines, I still have a copy of the eDonkey file-sharing client. Last month its creator, MetaMachine, agreed to give $30 million to the RIAA in order to duck threatened litigation. The eDonkey2000 Web site has since disappeared, replaced by a belligerent message intended to scare away visitors by implying that they are being watched. Why did eDonkey2000 fail in an arena where proprietary projects are still thriving?

The annual KDE World Summit, Akademy, has found a home for 2007 in the vibrant city of Glasgow.

Open-source database company Ingres is continuing its strategy to expand around the world, opening operations in India.

Yellow Dog coming to Sony's next-gen consoleTerra Soft Solutions is to port its PowerPC-based Yellow Dog Linux distribution over to the PlayStation 3, the company claimed today. PS3 support will come courtesy of YDL 5.0, which is due to ship mid-November - as is the PS3.…