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Architects from two dozen desktop-oriented Linux projects converged in Portland, Ore. last weekend to collaborate on creating the best possible Linux desktop. To that end, the group launched the Portland Project, which aims to provide a common set of standards that allow applications to easily integrate with the Linux desktop.

The City of Cape Town is positioning itself as a leader in free and open source software and has plans to extend its current OSS network to as many as 1500 OSS desktops across the city. This according to the City of Cape Town's Nirvesh Sooful who told delegates at the Cape FOSS Seminar yesterday that they were looking at rolling out open source machines in the libraries and clinics in the city.

Novacoast Teams With SUSE Linux in Deployment of Asterisk Open Source PBX

The release of Firefox 1.5 has helped Mozilla gain additional traction against IE, according to details of a survey released on Wednesday by Web statistics firm NetApplications.com. The market share of the alternative browser reached 8.84 percent in November, up over one percentage point since September.

The findings suggest that Mozilla could still be on track -- although a bit later than hoped -- to attain a 10 percent market share by the end of 2005.

The electronics company plans to help drive open source.

ETL Software Dramatically Cuts Processing Time by 60%

Winners to be Announced at Open Source Business Conference

Red Hat's forthcoming software development stack packages will offer LAMP support and more via the Red Hat Network

The Morning's Deal for December 5: MySQL AB and Alcatel, SOA and Merrill Lynch, Opsware and Cyphertech, LightPointe and KDN, InterNetwork and Schumacher, GEL and IGEL

With the cost of off-the-shelf computers as low as they are, the Christmas season might seem a perfect time to purchase one for that special person. Not so fast...Let's take a look inside that box and see what we can see.

RealNetworks's new Rhapsody Web-based streaming music service went beta on Monday, expanding its formerly Windows-only US music subscription service to include Linux and Macintosh users. Users running any flavor of Linux are now able to log into the service and download the plug-in necessary to stream the music data, spokeswoman Rhonda Scott told DesktopLinux.com.

Red Hat joins several companies in the business of supporting multiple open-source software packages, freeing IT managers from scouring the Web, newsgroups, and mailing lists to provide in-house support.

Sometime ago, we asked your favorite email client. Over 9000 people voted, with over 50% choosing Mozilla Thunderbird.

Show Dreamworks how its done with the awesome open source 3D modeller, animator and renderer Blender.

Provocative title that does not tell the full story. Yes Firefox is at NASA, only officially it is one of the two required browsers. In essence, while IE might be dropped in certain departments it is not NASA policy. Moreover, if Firefox is displacing IE it is against current policy. So be advised: keep the icon and have it run Firefox in IE mode,or ... Opera anyone?

Comment: Further to my previous article resulting from IBM’s annual analyst Software Group conference, here are some more thoughts on what IBM was talking about.

One of the things that struck me, and which I am not sure that I have seen discussed anywhere, is that an SOA (service oriented architecture) solution is topologically equivalent to the earlier hub-and-spoke architecture employed by EAI (enterprise application integration) vendors such as Tibco, Sun (SeeBeyond) and WebMethods.

Scientists Will Use Silicon Graphics Prism to Interpret Active-Source 3D Seismic Data, Including Tsunami Evidence in Oregon

Sun Microsystems Inc has finally announced the availability of the "Project Janis" Solaris Containers for Linux Applications, which allows applications written for Red Hat Linux to run on X86 and X64 iron to run inside a Linux ABI environment that is encased in a Solaris container.

RALEIGH, N.C. – (NASDAQ:RHAT) Red Hat plans to offer a new service to provide full certification and production support for key open source software stacks, available online through Red Hat Network. Starting in early 2006, Red Hat will offer three new stacks aimed at simplifying and standardizing open source application stacks, so that developers can focus on their applications instead of configuring the underlying platform. Each stack will be certified and supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and delivered in a subscription model. This announcement highlights Red Hat's growing focus on improving time-to-market for customers' development projects by helping reduce the certification and testing burden.

Macedonia may be well known for its place in books on ancient history, but it's now on the cutting edge of desktop Linux adoption. The Republic of Macedonia decided to deploy about 5,000 Linux desktop computers in 468 public schools and 182 computer labs nationwide last summer, based on a Ubuntu distribution with a GNOME desktop, the GNOME Journal reports.

The deployment was part of a joint project called E-School.MK, involving the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Education Development Center (EDC), and the Macedonian Ministry of Education and Science (MoES).