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Opinion:CIO Peter Quinn's story tells us that if you go up against Microsoft, you can expect everything and the kitchen sink to be thrown at you.

LXer Day Desk: 12-28-2005

Personal growth occurs in many ways. Pushing yourself into a new endeavor is one of the most constructive ways to achieve such growth. So, why don't we see more of it? It's often easier to stay with what's comfortable. When you step out on the skinny branches, you put yourself at-risk and that's uncomfortable. Those who can handle the discomfort will find the experience rewarding.

  LXer Feature: 28-Dec-05

Is Microsoft's fight over XML document formats really about Microsoft becoming more "open"? Or is Microsoft really trying to control users? How will you respond?

- A common Nepali, for long, has had troublesome access to computers due to two main factors – the need to know basic English to use a computer and the high prices of Windows and other proprietary software required for running various applications. The introduction of NepaLinux 1.0 apparently promises to provide solutions to these problems. But is the software as attractive as its slogan to a desktop user?

Hi all, Following the successful attempt at establishing release qualification guidelines, next on the agenda is addressing the question of amd64, Debian BSD and so forth, by working out some archive qualification guidelines.

BusinessWeek Online has rated all open source events of this past year, and narrowed them down to the five most important:

1. Red Hat makes money from free software....

One obvious solution is to approach a software development company and obtain a custom built product.

CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Fifteen years ago this Christmas week, Tim Berners-Lee, an obscure scientist working in a European laboratory, invented the Internet browser, now a fixture of the digital economy, experts tell United Press International's The Web.

Sir Berners-Lee today still lives a simple professor's lifestyle, bicycling around town, as his browser was supplanted by the Mosaic browser developed by a college student, Marc Andreessen at the University of Illinois, a few years later. Andreessen's invention led to the creation of Netscape, the Netscape Navigator and other technologies that enervated to the go-go 1990s run in investment in technology on Wall Street and the creation of millions of jobs and hundreds of Internet companies here and abroad, including now household-names eBay.com and Amazon.com.

Drive Recognized as CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Honoree

The creator of Linux claims that testing the kernel is the "perfect distraction" for techies who are bored over Christmas

Many, if not most, free and open source software projects are developed primarily on Linux-based systems using the GNU C Library (glibc). Projects that use glibc are likely to depend on functions that are not available on systems that use different C libraries, such as the different BSD flavors. When packages are built on systems that don't use glibc they often fail, because the other C libraries are missing functions found in glibc. The GNU Portability Library can help developers with cross-platform programming needs.

Nokia has recently announced its decision to join the Eclipse Foundation as a Board member and Strategic Developer. Nokia will contribute software and developers to support the work of the Eclipse open source community.

[Ed. Nothing new here, you can move on if you haven't already heard about this. tadelste]

Peter Quinn, the man responsible for bringing OpenDocument to the state of Massachusetts as CIO, will resign on Jan. 9, citing the controversy around the decision as well as personal attacks aimed at him as reasons for his departure.

Silicon Valley is a different place these days. After years of dot-com fallout, 2005 saw tech companies regain their self confidence - a fact signified by rapacious M&A, guilt-free spending on marketing activities and bold strategic statements. Here are the events that made this year what it was, and that will have an impact on the coming 12 months.

The Open Source Community of China has been set up by the China OSS Promotion Union (COPU), China Linux Industry Strategic Alliance and CSIP (Center of Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion) of the Ministry of Information Industry.

The Open Source Community of China is aimed at creating an atmosphere for open source software development through government guidance, active participation of enterprises and individuals as well as domestic and international cooperation.

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Debian Weekly News - December 27th, 2005

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Linux, once thought of as just a server play, is poised to reap $100 million this year as an embedded operating system, according to a new research report.

One of the most serious problems facing larger organizations considering using Linux and Open Source application stacks is managing the software environm

The inside scoop on upcoming additions and changes to GNOME and Ubuntu.

A new Firefox extension has been debuted that incorporates peer-to-peer capabilities into the browser via a sidebar. AllPeers "combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent" to add media sharing to the long list of available extensions.