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The weekend of 11-13 August has been dedicated to Debian Installer

The Linux Link Tech Show has interviewed Amarok developers Max Howell and Ian Monroe in their latest show. Max talks about Amarok's many features and what they plan for KDE 4, while Ian explains what the main goals of the Amarok project are. Start 12 minutes in to skip the technical problems and listen to the interview.

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 is now available for download. Hot on the heels of last week's Firefox 1.5.0.5 release, this update fixes a Windows Media Player plugin regression introduced in version 1.5.0.5.

Mozilla on Aug. 2 released yet another updated version of its Firefox browser, v1.5.0.6, right on the heels of v1.5.0.5, which came out July 26 but apparently caused an unforeseen problem. Additionally, Mozilla announced that Firefox passed the 200 million download mark on July 31.

LAS VEGAS -- The crowds are larger on this second day of Black Hat, though people are moving a little more slowly than yesterday, perhaps because of the free toga party last night at Caesar's Palace, marking the casino's 40th anniversary. Nevertheless, the conference sessions have been packed with intriguing information.

The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the KDE centric desktop distribution Ark Linux 2006.1 - including KDE 3.5.4, Amarok 1.4.1, Kopete 0.12.1 with a hotfix for connecting to ICQ after the latest protocol change, a fully KDE-ified OpenOffice.org 2.0.3, and X.org 7.1.1. Another highlight in this release is the KDE based "rpmhandler", a tool that makes installing 3rd party packages easier than ever before.

LXer Feature: 04-Aug-2006

GNU/Linux -- Like No Other Hotrod, Ever

While others appear to be going backwards, Linux just keeps racing ahead.

'Linux supports more devices, "out of the box", than any other operating system ever has.'

"Yes, that's right, we support more things than anyone else. And more than anyone else ever has in the past. Linux has a very long list of things that we have supported before anyone else ever did."
-- Greg Kroah-Hartman, OLS 2006 Keynote

Microsoft's Windows Embedded team will host a "free app" giveaway during LinuxWorld. The "apps" -- in this case appetizers -- include embedded turkey clubs ("it's the bacon that's embedded") and boneless "penguin" wings ("hot and tasty, but with no support infrastructure"), plus free beer and wine.

[Hmm. "Shanghaiing was the act of forcibly conscripting someone to serve a term working on a ship, usually after having been rendered senseless by alcohol, drugs or a sharp blow to the head." If the free beer and wine don't work, will they resort to the sharp blow to the head? -- grouch]

The OpenVZ virtualization software is built on Linux and creates isolated, secure virtual environments on a single physical server to enable greater server utilization and better availability with fewer performance penalties.

[I suggest Mr. Galli look again. The name is Debian GNU/Linux. It is just as wrong to call it "Debian Linux" as it would be to say "Red Hat GNU/Linux" or "Petre Galley". -- grouch]

Following on the heels of the Firefox 2.0 beta in mid-July, Mozilla has released the first 2.0 previews of its Thunderbird email client. Firefox may get most of the attention, thanks to its flashier job, but it is the trusty email reader that conducts most of the killer-app conversations on a daily basis. Let's see what the new build holds in store.

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.4, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. Even while KDE 4 is being prepared, improvements to KDE 3.5 have been made and this release makes them available. The new features were subject to rigorous quality testing so that KDE 3.5.4 is as stable as the maintenance releases that precede it.

With more than 10.000 downloads Palo (www.palo.net) is the most successful Open-Source BI-Tool in the spreadsheet OLAP market. The new release Palo 1.0c brings improved performance as well as some minor bug fixes to the popular Excel Database Add-In. The first Palo User Conference will be held on September 29th in Frankfurt/Main.

Open source software will become increasingly important for governments around the world as they look to reduce fixed-term licence costs and develop local industries. This was said yesterday by Gartner analyst Andrea DiMaio who offered some suggestions on how governments can build the required ecosystem to grow their open source ambitions.

EnterpriseDB, open source database company, announced that it has closed a combined $20 million debt and equity financing. A $16.5 million Series B venture capital financing was led by Fidelity Ventures, a leading provider of “Go-to-Market CapitalSM“ to early-stage information technology and communications companies. Previous investors Charles River Ventures and Valhalla Partners also participated in the Series B round.

There was an informal presentation by OLPC at the Ottawa Linux Symposium, and the project looked quite impressive. The hardware had true peer-to-peer wireless networking, meaning that if two children happened to be near each other -- with no wireless access points or servers around -- that they could still share files.

GEMS strips out unwanted packages and modules of Gentoo Linux

OCS To Deliver ProtexIP Software Compliance Management Solution To Corporate And Legal Organizations

[Is there some FOSS in amongst all this gobbledygook? -- grouch]

The Mozilla Corporation and RealNetworks have entered into a multi-year agreement under which RealNetworks will distribute Mozilla Firefox with its products. During the installation of RealPlayer, users will be given the option to also install Firefox. In the near future, Firefox will also be an installation option with Real's Rhapsody music download service and RealArcade gaming platform. The public relations material issued by RealNetworks and the Mozilla Corporation does not say how much, if any, money changed hands as part of the arrangement.

There's a lot to think about in the land of Open Source these days, much discussion, and much discussiion to come. And there is much rethinking.

This is a discussion that readers of this blog should be following and, where it makes sense, contributing to.

IBM took the opportunity of the launch of its new AMD Opteron "Armada" servers to push an energy and heat efficiency message, introducing its Cool Blue concept of a cooler, energy-efficient data centre.