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Firefox 2.0 is almost here, and Microsoft is expected to start pushing out Internet Explorer 7 to users via the Windows Automatic Update software-distribution mechanism by year's end. In short, the browser wars are about to begin again.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Shares of Red Hat Inc., the largest distributor of the Linux operating system, tumbled more than 7 percent Friday after a Wall Street analyst suggested that Oracle Corp. may soon introduce its own Linux products.

PC-BSD is a desktop-oriented distribution that masks the stability of the FreeBSD kernel behind an easy-to-use package. Its graphical system installer and point-and-click PBI package management system have been drawing in users who've never tried a BSD-based operating system before. This week the project was acquired by iXsystems, a high-end enterprise hardware solution provider. While the community is expressing skepticism of the move, the developers of PC-BSD and iXsystems both say that this partnership can only take the distribution forward.

Santa Fe, New Mexico - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 13, 2006 - Search software company, Deep Web Technologies, (DWT), has made its ''open source intelligence'' (OSINT) solution, accessible to the public free of charge. Maintained and created by DWT, the search technology and deep web solutions provider, empowers the search capabilities of federal government-sponsored sites.

The Portland Project has officially released Portland 1.0, a software framework designed to facilitate interoperability and simplify development of desktop Linux software by giving developers a common set of Linux Desktop Interfaces and tools to enable applications under development to easily integrate into both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments. This significant first release has met with relative enthusiasm from open source software development companies and Linux distributors. Already available in Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, Portland 1.0 is also expected to appear in upcoming releases of Red Flag and Xandros.

The Apache Foundation and Doug Cutting, inventor of the open source Nutch search engine, have teamed with Baynote to expand the adoption of open source search. "The goal of Nutch is to provide effective Web site search," said Cutting. "Baynote's open source program will benefit Web developers and system administrators ... who can use one of Baynote's three Nutch-based options for their own sites."

Arcom has introduced an entry level embedded Linux development kit to support its low power PXA255 XScale-based single board computers.

There was a time when Qualcomm's (Quote) Eudora e-mail program was one of most-used applications in the world. That time has long since past. The company announced today that it would cease producing commercial versions of Eudora, which it has been using and developing since 1991 when the project started as a freeware effort.

This article will review some options for recovering data including a cool way to recover data from a Windows disk using a Linux server.

ApacheCon US 2006 kicked off its general session this morning in Austin, Texas, following two days of tutorials. Apache Software Foundation (ASF) president Sander Striker opened the proceedings with his "State of the Feather" address. Cliff Stoll, the hacker-catching, planetary astronomer, author, and volunteer 7th grade science teacher, followed Striker with a keynote address which included a demonstration of how he taught a 7th grade science class to measure the speed of light.

You’ve installed FreeBSD, and it works fine, of course. If you are as seriously committed to using it as your desktop as I am, you’ll want to get the most out it. Let’s go hardcore! The key with FreeBSD is optimization— tweaking the compile process so the resulti...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- There's a popular notion swirling around the high-tech sector that Microsoft's dominant position in the industry and software bugs have customers scurrying for the cover of Linux.

Estacado Systems, a provider of real-time communication software products and services, announced a freely available version of its SIPWright Proxy Server. This release, Version 2.0, leverages a highly customizable message-processing framework to provide a general purpose SIP server that is easy to install, manage, and use. The server can provide SIP proxy, registrar, and redirect services.

Dublin, Ireland - (The Hosting News) - October 12, 2006 - NLnet, the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) Desktop Linux (DTL) group, and the KDE open source development community, recently hosted an ODF Day at aKademy 2006.

October 13th, 2006: The European Union Commission is getting behind open source software with the creation of a web portal it hopes will increase public sector adoption of open solutions.

Who is winning the usage statistic race and who is getting relegated to the background? Firefox or IE. This is a question playing on everyone’s minds, what with two different browser statistics and contradictory reports issued over the past week, highlighting the difficultly in obtaining accurate usage numbers of Internet Explorer and Firefox.

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