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One of the downsides of beta testing is that your test machine invariably becomes a splintered mess in a very short of space of time, as your fresh beta build gets pulled apart, tweaked, recovers from crashes and so on.

[For all our alpha testers out there. - dcparris]

De Mozilla Foundation heeft de tweede release candidate de deur uit gedaan van Firefox 2.0, ook wel 'Bon Echo' genoemd. Deze cross-platform opensource webbrowser voor het internet en bevat een aantal nieuwe features en verbeteringen ten opzichte van de huidige Firefox generatie. Zo heeft bijvoorbeeld elke tab een apart sluitknopje en zijn er beschermende maatregelingen tegen het zogenaamde 'phishing' aanwezig. Wat er precies allemaal veranderd is in deze release kunnen we je helaas niet vertellen, want de release notes zijn identiek aan die van de eerste release candidate en de tweede bètarelease. Voor de volledigheid geven we ze hier toch nog even:

[We also welcome articles in other languages. - dcparris]

Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 (RC 2), the latest preview release of the next version of the Firefox browser, is now available for download.

Wherever you may stand in regard to it, the open source community can be seen as a mixed blessing. True, the programs are available for little to no money, but sometimes a development team consisting of too many chefs can ruin any good intentions that created the effort.

As Red Hat prepares to launch its much anticipated channel program, the Linux company appointed Mark Enzweiler, 50, as vice president of global channel sales strategy and sales at Red Hat. Enzweiler, formerly vice president of global channel strategy and sales at Lenovo, and former vice president of north channel sales and director of global sales at IBM, spoke with CRN's Paula Rooney.

LXer Feature: 06-Oct-2006

On the word of an LXer reader, I downloaded OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Release Candidate 3 to test it's load speed. I also tested copying data from Calc to Base, something that had caused repeated crashing under 2.0.3. Here's what happened.

LXer Feature: 5-Oct-2006

We finally got around to getting a few photos from the 2006 Ohio LinuxFest on-line. Enjoy!

Linux seller hires Mark Enzweiler, a veteran of Lenovo and IBM, to be its vice president of North American channel sales.

Market research firm Venture Development Corp. (VDC) has published its annual re-cap of the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), held in Boston the week of Sept. 18. VDC's report highlights several announcements of potential interest to developers and companies in the embedded Linux market.

The Companies Office, a unit of the Ministry of Economic Development, has launched a new website. What is special about the new website is that it is based on ‘Open Source’ software. It is only the third government department to do so but the first one of the “top five” Government sites in NZ (by number of visitors).

For years, most Linux distributions have been using an init daemon based on the one found in Unix System V. The init daemon is spawned by the kernel itself, and tasked with booting the rest of the system, starting all other processes, and taking care of them when they need to be stopped or when they die. While the System V init setup has worked well for Linux in the past, it hasn't aged well -- which is why we're replacing the aging init system with Upstart in Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Free software advocates rallied against certain limits on copying music and films on Tuesday in a global "Day against DRM" (Digital Rights Management), saying consumers are robbed of their fair-use rights as entertainment goes digital and online.

FOREST HILL, MD -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 04, 2006 -- Speakers Include Luminaries from Accenture, the Apache Software Foundation, Apple Computer, CNN/Turner Digital Media, CollabNet, Covalent, eBay, E*Trade, Google, Grenoble University, IBM, IETF, Intel, IONA Technologies, LogicBlaze, MIT, Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Ticketmaster, Virtuas, Yahoo!, and more.

Delta, CO, October 2, 2006: Technalign, Inc. has announced it has released a version of Frontier Simply to include a 1 gig USB drive at no additional cost for a limited time. The release is to promote the OnTheGo feature of the Frontier products. OnTheGo is a live CD or DVD and has an added benefit over other live distributions by allowing a user to take their desktop settings and data with them. OnTheGo is a powerful tool that allows individuals to use the product on another computer while using their primary settings. Files can be copied and shared between Windows, MAC and Linux systems.

Q&A: Microsoft's head of platform strategy denies that open source is a credible threat to the software giant's empire, and rules out porting MS Office to Linux

[So what do you think? I say we'll see MS Office on GNU/Linux by '08 or '09. If they're saying it ain't gonna happen, it's bound to happen soon. - dcparris]

As it faces new competition from Xen-based solutions, VMware updated its recently released platform to offer support for 64-bit operating systems and other tools and services to ease migration for its customers and partners.

October 4th, 2006: As of Monday this week, Tibco software has begun offering its General Interface Rich Internet Application (RIA) toolkit as open source.

[LXer applauds Tibco's decision. It is refreshing to see businesses decide to treat their users with some semblance of respect. - dcparris]

LXer Feature: 2-Oct-2006

Lxer's Bob Whitinger and Don Parris flew to Columbus for the Ohio LinuxFest Saturday. Don shares his experience barrel rolling in a '62 Mooney, meeting popular and lively penguinistas and even a pair of live penguins.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: KPersonaliser, the new installation greetings wizard, has been removed from KDE 4.

OPEN SAUCE browser Firefox is so critically flawed that it is impossible to fix, according to two hackers.

[Even if true, it's still more secure than MSIE. Now take a deep breath and let that sink in. - dcparris]