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Remember the paperless office? By now we were supposed to be handling all of our documents digitally, and saving trees by using computers to handle everything electronically. If you'd like to make backup copies of ephemeral content without printing it out, turn your Linux box into a PDF generation device for your entire network.

Starting May 8, Mozilla will host twice-weekly conference calls to discuss the future of customer support for Mozilla products, the company announced today. Several support mediums will be discussed in the conferences, including knowledge bases, forums, and real-time chat, a company spokesperson said.

With one stroke, Microsoft has reasserted its number one position as deal maker and decision maker in the computer industry, reminding all wannabes that they are just that - wannabes.

LXer Feature: 08-May-2007

The idea to have the Open Source community sponsor a car in the Indianapolis 500 put forth recently has more than just the Open Source Press taking notice. Here is my take on it.

Jitterbit has released version 1.2 of their open source integration software that allows users to connect customer data from a variety of sources and formats, such as local and hosted ERP and CRM applications, legacy systems, data warehouses and online marketplaces.

Every now and then something comes along that makes you say "whatever for?". The latest news from Microsoft's Indian research arm is one of those.

South Africa-developed Impi Linux, a local version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system, today announced its latest release. With this release Impi Linux, is hoping to extends its existing public sector foothold and grab a little more of the enterprise sector.

One of the great features of the current version of OpenOffice.org is the support for extensions, which allow you to add to the office suite's functionality. Every day this week we'll look some of the most useful OOo extensions available. Today, we'll look at ways you can improve the way the office suite handles templates and AutoText.

Most Firefox users are familiar with the Greasemonkey extension, a powerful tool that lets you enhance your browsing experience by rewriting HTML pages and JavaScript on the client side. The Stylish extension gives you that same level of control over Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Unlike JavaScript, altering a page's CSS cannot change its functionality -- but it can greatly enrich its usability.

The 2.6 Linux kernel has been one amazing roller-coaster ride of excellent new features and changes coming faster than you can say "git along now, little patchies." Hardware detection and management, and removable media management are probably the most obvious changes to users.

Dell responds to customer demand for greater interoperability and intellectual property assurance between Windows and Linux.

[Why is this not surprising? - Scott]

A typical Linux desktop user is a guy in his twenties who's computer savvy but may very well not be an IT professional. Those are some of the conclusions you can draw from the just-released openSUSE survey results.

RAID-based NAS Products for SMB, SOHO and Home to Expand NETGEAR's Storage Solutions

ZDNet Australia is running a brief article about Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker, written by the Australian Associated Press at the CeBIT Australia 2007 conference in Sydney. In the report, Mitchell is quoted as saying that Mozilla Firefox helps to promote an open and innovative Web and describes how the user-focused Web has re-emerged after a period of dominance by large corporations.

Avi Kivity announced significant performance improvements and support for running 32-bit Windows Vista as a guest within the latest release ofKVM. Originally merged into the 2.6.20 mainline Linux kernel, KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine,"a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions". Regarding the new release, Avi announced:"The happy theme of today's kvm is the significant performance improvements, brought to you by a growing team of developers. I've clocked kbuild at within 25% of native. This release also introduces support for 32-bit Windows Vista."read more

The official Netscape Blog has announced that the next Netscape browser release will be called Netscape Navigator 9, reviving the name used for Netscape's earliest browser releases at the height of its popularity.

LXer Feature: 29-Apr-2007

A weekly recap of the big stories concerning Linux and Open Source.

Starting next week, the Mozilla Corporation will be hosting twice-weekly meetings to discuss the future of customer support for Mozilla products. Several different support mediums will be discussed in the conferences, including knowledge bases, forums and real-time chat. The meetings, which are open to all, will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the next three weeks. Notes will be published afterwards for those unable to make it.

Con Kolivas continues to maintain the performance oriented -ck patchset that he started in early 2004, "this patchset is designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default -ck patch is aimed at the desktop and -cks is available with more emphasis on serverspace." In Con's latest release, 2.6.21-ck1, he notes that he has updated the patchset to include his improved SD cpu scheduler, "the staircase-deadline cpu scheduler has replaced the old staircase design in this version."

A former lover of the missing wife of Linux programmer and accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case, prosecutors informed the defense last week.

[jimf brought this to my attention and I thought it might be of interest to others. - Scott]