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WorldLabel.com, a maker of labels for envelopes, jewel cases, and other purposes, has released a package of more than 50 label template pages for OpenOffice.org. The labels, which represent most of WorldLabel.com's standard prepress stock, are available in both OpenOffice.org 1.0 (.stw) and Open Document (.ott) format, and are released under the GNU General Public License and the Joint Copyright Agreement required for OpenOffice.org contributions. According to Russell Ossendryver, the company's managing director, USA, the release of the labels is in direct response to the growing popularity of OpenOffice.org.

Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community.

LXer received a document from a source with the message "I read your article on linuxJournel about countries growing use of Linux. The attached article was posted in Intel's intranet site." It reveals that Intel expects to sell hundreds of millions of Linux-based computers in rural China. If Intel can sell a Linux computer in rural China, why can't they do the same thing in the United States?

Is it such a risk? Look at IBM in the US, they have committed to Linux with facilities, staff, sponsorships of projects. Was the risk so great for IBM? Obviously not. So, Intel, put up!

[Ed: Original published in November and updated in light of new reports. -tadelste]

Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster Beats Competition in Throughput and Performance; Out-Of-The-Box Solution Eliminates Costly Deployment to Maximize Return on Investment

Use the gd graphics code library to create and manipulate images quickly.

To provide more options for developers, the Mono open-source development platform will be part of the next version of Linux distribution, Fedora Core.

Stories about Microsoft's latest study are beginning to crop up here and there. This time, Redmond is trying to convince us that Linux isn't really any better on older hardware.

Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24 million in funding to Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open-source software and to improve Coverity's commercial tool for source code analysis, representatives for the three grant recipients told CNET News.com.

Zope developers have replaced one of their core components in the latest version of the open source application server, bringing potential performance and scalability benefits.

User groups have long been an integral part of the free software and open source world. Goan journalist and LUGger Frederick Noronha shares his secrets on what makes a great community.

Due to a marked increase of computers in Nepal, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) -- the country's principal archive of books and periodicals in Nepali -- has launched a beta version of NepaLinux, a Debian-based Linux distribution localized in Nepali, the language spoken by more than 30 million South Asian people.

At Leapsoft Technologies, we see the future of IT in Nigeria as that of affordable software powering the Nation. Nigeria has long suffered from expensive proprietary software plaguing our government, education and private sectors with each of these bodies writing out huge cheques annually or even more frequently in licensing fees.

Some of these fees could be saved and better spent on improving education in our schools, improving the healthcare system or providing electricity and water to other parts of Nigeria that do not already have these utilities by adopting open source software that is a fraction of the cost of proprietary software.

The company behind the virtual private server (VPS) software Virtuozzo announced yesterday it would release a "bare-bones" open source version called OpenVZ, which it expects to help drive development of the proprietary one.

It's been over a year since Xandros Inc. launched a new version of its well-regarded Xandros Desktop Operating System, but the company is now looking for a few good beta testers for its next release. Xandros Desktop OS 4, which will be released later this year, will be based on the DCC Alliance's Common Core. This, in turn, is based on Debian 3.1, aka Sarge, which has been made LSB (Linux Standard Base) 3.0 compliant

WASHINGTON -- Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay tried to pressure the Bush administration into shutting down an Indian-owned casino that lobbyist Jack Abramoff wanted closed - shortly after a tribal client of Abramoff's donated to a DeLay political action committee, The Associated Press has learned.

[Ed: But he didn't know Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed or anyone else. Why he didn't even know that Bill Gates' and Michael Dell's Foundation gave his Foundation $350,000 -tadelste]

Abramoff pleaded guilty to federal charges and is cooperating with investigators whose bribery probe is now focusing on several members of Congress and their aides, including a former DeLay aide. Abramoff's former business partner Michael Scanlon, DeLay's former press aide, also has pleaded guilty in the case.

In a Linuxdevices.com guest column back in 2002, I argued that without a major attitude change, digital rights management (DRM) technologies would cause software security failures and generate safety problems for everything from medical equipment to military systems.

There is a vital need to draw the free software community's attention to the ongoing development work on these particular projects.

These projects are important because computer users are continually being seduced into using non-free software, because there is no adequate free replacement. Please support these projects:

• Free BIOS
• 3D driver for ATI graphics cards
• OpenOffice.org 2.0 (see our call for contributions.)
• Gnash(GPL Flash movie player)
• GNU Compiler for Java (This article by Richard Stallman explains the issues with Java.)
• GNU Classpath

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled new Intel-powered desktop and notebook computers, along with new digital lifestyle software, at the 2006 Macworld Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday morning. Starting today, Apple is selling a retooled iMac with the new Intel Core Duo processor. It's available with a 1.83-GHz Intel dual-core chip for $1,299 or with a faster 2.0-GHz dual-core processor for $1,699.

When it acquired Immunix in 2005, Novell gained the security tool it now calls AppArmor. Today, all of the community can benefit from the security application, as Novell has announced the release of AppArmor's source code under the GPL.

Red Hat To Sponsor Critical Linux Conference Track