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Last week, The One Laptop Per Child initiative put a name on their first laptop device. The new name is “Children’s Machine” or CM1, apparently taken from the title of Seymour Papert’s book of the same name (published in the early 90s.) There isn’t a signficant amount of technical update. I should mention, though, that the team has brought up Forth on the laptop recently. I used Forth at Atari Coin-op and I can attest to its ease of debugging hardware. Redhat is still slated to deliver a “skinny” version of Fedora Core to be shipped on the laptop.

Japan's largest mobile operator will power-up a 3.5G network next week, and launch a Linux-based phone capable of using it. The N902iX phone, supplied by NEC, offers features most U.S. and European users can only dream of -- such as 3.6Mbit/s peak download speeds.

Two groups involved in promoting software for mobile platforms, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) are joining forces to provide device makers and operators with an alternative to closed (proprietary) operating systems.

NVIDIA today has graced us with a new driver release and the big news is X.org 7.1 support. Let the party begin! (Yes, I realize ATI already released this and I thank ATI for probably pushing NVIDIA into working on this sooner.)

[It would be 'real' news if NVIdia would announce libre drivers. Oh well... - dcparris]

The State of Massachusetts has reaffirmed its commitment to begin using the OpenDocument Format by Jan. 1, 2007, a move that has been welcomed by the ODF Alliance.

A phenomenal amount of information is being managed by open source content management systems (CMS), wikis, and blogs. However, most of these content management systems work on the popular but difficult to configure LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack, which makes setting up one fall within an administrator's domain. You can simplify your hosting tasks by turning to XAMPP, a full-featured Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl stack that works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris. It can give you a fully integrated server environment within minutes.

San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - August 23, 2006 - Open source database company, EnterpriseDB, for the second consecutive year, has won the Linux Journal Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld in the Best Database Solution category. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server, the company's flagship product, was honored by representatives of Linux Journal and the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

since we have an ongoing BSP Marathon [1,2] there will be a BSP in J=FClich, Germany the weekend 15.-17. September. The BSP will be hosted in the office of credativ GmbH.

Actel has announced a free software program development environment for its CoreMP7, the industry's only soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for FPGAs.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn a dangerous patent law ruling that could pose a serious threat to Free and Open Source Software projects.

[Fight the best you can! - dcparris]

Pradhan brings more than 25 years of sales and management experience to Red Hat.

Opinion: Open Source industry watchers are weighing in on Oracle's Linux moves, a potential Red Hat buyout and other related rumors.

Novell Open Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Take Top Two Spots in VARBusiness ARC Awards

Boston – The Free Software Foundation has announced details of a contest to celebrate the milestone of reaching 5000 free software packages listed in the Free Software Directory.

LXer Feature: 23-Aug-2006

Grepping for businesses that focus solely, or even mostly, on FOSS is prooving to be quite a challenge. Open Sense Solutions is a Greenbay, Wisconsin-based provider of GNU/Linux desktop solutions. Their Groovix public access system is not only popular, but libre too. Michael Pardee was kind enough to answer the questions Don Parris threw at him.

By now, you've probably heard that Intel has a new chip out that went by the code-name “Conroe” but now goes by the names Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme. So while you may have read about how great these chips are under Windows, I bet you have heard little to no news about Linux performance or even Linux support. As usual, this is where Linux Hardware comes in to fill in the gaps.

Users of open-source general public licenses should be prepared to decide early next year whether to stick with Version 2 of their GPL or opt for GPLv3.

DesktopLinux.com launched its 2006 Desktop Linux survey on August 21, asking users of Linux desktops to identify what distributions they use, as well as their choice of windowing environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.), web browsers, email clients, and Windows-on-Linux solutions.

With a donation of a new Poweredge server from Dell Inc., and a successful hardware fundraiser for disks last month, the long-suffering ktown.kde.org site gets a welcome upgrade, and a new hosting package from the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum. Read on for the details on the new server, Immanuel.

The co-author of the General Public License, which governs the open-source software, has recently admitted that version 3 of the GPL and its previous version will have to co-exist.