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A recent interview with Izumi Kawanishi, head of the Software Platform division of SCEI, shed some new details on the PlayStation 3.

Many organisations use methods to keep a standard look and feel to their computer desktops, with branding, logos, default company websites as home pages and various rights and privilege settings. These "manageable computer desktops" have always been fairly easy to roll-out company-wide, and if any changes were made in a session, they are wiped when the next user logs on.

There are those in the Linux world who think Microsoft's long-term plan is to keep tabs on and control of a strong competitor -- Suse's Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is seriously good. Linux Web forums have been awash with outraged users denouncing Novell for making a deal with the devil.

Today I read Andy McCue's post on,"Why the Linux desktop dream is over" and "Stephen O'Grady's "Do Operating Systems Matter: Part 1 " and Jonathan Schwartz's post on Network Clients and it becomes clear to me the eventual direction of desktop computing.

An updated version of Ubuntu Christian Edition has been released: "We have just released Ubuntu CE v1.5! With this release we focused on the fixing some issues with the live CD installer. We have also made a subtle, but very important change to the Ubuntu CE installer, upgrade_me script, Convert_me script, Web Content Filtering Only script, and the DansGuardian GUI Only script. The Configure Parental Controls GUI has been updated to include a few new features.

Version 0.9.25 of Wine got released. It contains the usual bugfixes and a number of improvements. For players of WoW the most noticeable one is that they won't need special OpenGL patches anymore for running it correctly in OpenGL mode. The game should work correctly out of the box.

Reports and resources for running Linux on a notebook or laptop computer.

In the past couple years the Web hosting industry has seen a resurgence of virtual private servers, particularly because they provide a level of customization that cannot be fulfilled by a shared hosting solution. As a result, Web hosts are continually enhancing their VPS offerings to ensure that they meet the changing needs of their customers.

The IMIA General Assembly approved on 10 November 2006 the establishment of an annual award by the IMIA Open Source Health Informatics Working Group (OSWG). The inaugural award will be made at the AMIA OSWG meeting on 13 November in Washington DC. The IMIA General Assembly also finally ratified the proposal for the IMIA OSWG to co-sponsor the Annual Linux Medical News Award. Final bit of breaking news for those who like to plan ahead - the medinfo2010 conference will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.

Gaim ist ein freies Multi-Messenger-Tool, das es Ihnen ermöglicht, sich mit folgenden Systemen zu verbinden: AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu und Zephyr. Das Programm ist kostenlos und einen Blick wert - zumal es mit einer Fülle von Add-Ons in seinen Funktionen mächtig aufgewertet werden kann.

The Fedora Project is in one of those relatively rare periods where the deadlines have passed, the distribution has been shipped, and no new deadlines have yet been set. Now is the time when participants in the project can engage in a bit of introspection, and that's exactly what is going on. Over the next week or so, decisions will be made which could significantly change the way this project works.

Novell SUSE Linux project manager Andreas Jaeger announced Friday that his team has released OpenSUSE 10.2 beta 2. The release includes "a large number of enhancements and updates by the open source community and Novell's development teams," Jaeger said.

Sun Microsystems' move to "GPL" Java makes it the last of a number of companies to go to a hybrid licensing mode. The Santa Clara, Calif., company will continue to offer its Java technologies under their current license, but is adding the GNU General Public License as an option. That is the current GPL 2 license, not the controversial GPL 3, although that option is apparently under consideration, sources said.

Critics claim that some certificate authorities fail to check the identity of applicants because they prefer revenues over rigid security. The Extended Validation SSL certificates will introduce a more stringent vetting process, including verification of the applicant's physical existence.

System builders considering a Linux desktop are faced with a dizzying array of choices. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of Linux distributions to choose from. Narrowing the field of contenders basically comes down to what works best for both the system builder and its customers.

I've been programming since a young age, and Linux has always seemed like a natural progression, especially as my development environment is PHP/MySQL/Apache. A while ago, this was all done on a Red Hat installed system, using the “Plesk” web interface. Although I spent quite a few hours at the console sorting out problems, Plesk hid the real nitty gritty from me and I was often just following “How Tos” in order to get things fixed. In saying that, I did manage to write a wrapper script that fixed a compatibility between MailMan and Plesk, so I wasn't doing too badly.

The latest version of the popular Cryptlib security toolkit has been released. Cryptlib 3.3 is the first open-source software development toolkit to support the TLS-PSK standard. By building strong mutual authentication into the existing TLS process, TLS-PSK provides a high level of security against phishing attacks that existing HTTP and TLS solutions can't provide.

Today I stumbled across a gem of an online music service, http://www.magnatune.com... preview and buy music that appears to be unencumbered by DRM... Think we can rouse the geek world behind this "Open Music" service?

IBM announced the System Storage DS4700 Express Models 70-DC and 72-DC, which are compliant with the Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) Level 3 "hardening" requirements originally designed for the telecommunications industry. Products can be either NEBS certified or NEBS compliant, the distinction being that the former have been submitted to an independent lab for formal testing and the latter have not.

Ubuntu developers and other interested parties from all over the world have swarmed to Google's offices in Mountain View this week for the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) to plan out the next release of Ubuntu.