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How fast is fast enough? Novell's SUSE Linux is getting a boost up to real-time speed thanks to a new partnership with Concurrent. Concurrent Real-Time Extensions Powered By SUSE Linux is an optimized version of SUSE Linux that provides guaranteed interrupt response times of fewer than 30 microseconds.

The open source browser Firefox has been rated alongside Google, Apple and Starbucks as one of the most powerful brands in the world in 2005, according to a study published on Monday.

While it may seem sacrilegious to most in the hardcore open source world, the number of community-developed software deployments on Windows is growing as users look for ways to get the benefits of open source without having to overhaul their IT infrastructure.

Half a year ago, I was in a point in my professional life where I wanted to start over with a completely different developer environment. My Windows XP-based PC simply worked too slowly. Antivirus software, disk fragmentation, network settings, and an ever-growing registry were eating up the performance. As a Java developer, I had about a million small files installed on my computer, and the antivirus software had a hard time. I decided to install Linux on my brand new ThinkPad T43P laptop. Having been a Red Hat fan for many years, the obvious free alternative was Fedora, so I installed Fedora Core 3. Today, with Linux, I have more control over my development environment than I did with Microsoft Windows.

Robert Quattlebaum's animation house Voria Studios existed for only a short time, but while active it produced some top-notch demonstrations using an in-house-designed 2D animation tool. Now that Voria is no more, Quattlebaum has released the animation tool as an open source project under the name Synfig.

Google News, the popular, automated news service that finally made it out of beta, has rolled out two new features designed to help readers find the news that interests them.

Users can now sign up for a personalized news aggregator that serves up headlines designed to match their personal reading tastes. They can also click on a list of the most popular recent stories in the Google News edition they are viewing.

The company has completed the first step of making the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) available to the open source community by publishing the UIMA source code to SourceForge.net, the world’s largest open source development site.

Cape Town-based Linux solutions provider Redlinx has built a high-end digital video recording appliance based on open source software. The solution runs on Suse Enterprise Linux and MySQL for a highly scalable and customisable solution to all security woes.

Ampro's Tiny ReadySystem(TM) Fits 400 to 1400 MHz Computing Into Small Environments

Zimlets Make Collaboration Come Alive, Providing General Tools for Integrating Third-Party Content - CRM Data, HR Systems, Etc. - Into the Collaboration Experience of End Users

Turbolinux to Advance Linux Market Leadership Position in China; Leading Linux Distributor Has Secured Subsidy to Expand Linux Growth in China and Deployed Operating Systems in Sichuan Province

Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens launch industry alliance to boost the use of free software in the telecommunications arena. Better interoperability between providers is high on the new alliance's agenda.

Open source use is on the rise in the public and private sectors in the US, with large organisations saving millions of dollars by using open source software, a research study led by Optaros Inc has found.

The research firm sampled 512 US businesses, organisations and government agencies. A clear majority (87%) used open source, with the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, and web browsers among the most popular applications.

"Organisations with annual revenue of more than $1 billion saved an average $3.3 million in 2004 from their open source software," the firm said.

User level: Advanced Other system administrators have fantastic toolboxes for their work. My tools consist of two everyday programs: OpenSSH and the GNU Bourne-Again Shell (bash). No other tool, whether console-based or GUI, has been so consistently useful to me as these two programs.

Some coders believe the Linux kernel won't use version 3 of the GPL, but Alan Cox wants developers to stop speculating at this early stage

The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), a joint effort of the US and Canadian governments, approved the validation of the OpenSSL open source security toolkit for implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols on Friday.

Novell will no longer force license purchasers into contract license agreements that attach service and support contracts. The company will also offer licenses per device, as well as per user.

Company Releases SourcePoint(TM) 6.2.1

TUSTIN, CA -- 01/23/2006 -- American Arium, an industry leader in hardware-assisted development tools, today announced the release of the latest version of its flagship debugger, SourcePoint™ 6.2.1 for ARM®-architecture processors. SourcePoint 6.2.1 features Linux shared libraries debug support for ARM7™, ARM9™, ARM11™, Intel XScale®, and TI OMAP™ cores. The debugger interfaces with Arium's LC-500 JTAG

Sarah writes: [Gahwlee Bob]: Open source seems to be making strides in the consumer realm, but who all realizes it? The obvious example is Firefox-- but despite its runaway success, how many users realize its open source? And did you know TiVo uses Linux? I didn't until recently.

One of the most popular and ubiquitous rich media plug-ins for any browser on almost any platform is the Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash player.

Thanks to efforts of the Free Software Foundation, a Free Software Flash player called GNU Gnash is now in active development. The development is apparently occurring without the help or support of Adobe in any way. An Adobe/Macromedia spokesperson was unable to comment on the development.

Flash player has always been free, but not in the Free and Open Source Software sense, as it is a proprietary application licensed under a closed source license.