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Nobody wants to use an operating system. They just want it be able to run the software they need. Therefore, its very important for an OS to have killer apps. Here’s a list of software that make Linux worth using.

The Internet Identity Workshop starts tomorrow (Monday, December 4) and runs for the next two days, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every time we have one of these, progress happens. It's a remarkable thing to watch, and to participate in.But the challenges remain very high. To illustrate how high, I'll start with a conversation I had one year ago, when we were driving back from a Thanksgiving visit to relatives who live 250 miles away.With the kid asleep in the back seat of the car, my wife asked me to fill her in on a subject that had preoccupied me over the last several years, yet had remained opaque to her."Tell me about this whole identity thing", she said.

Here we go. The Declaration of Kenneth Brakebill [PDF] in support of Novell's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment, listing all the exhibits and what they are, as text. Hopefully this will help us to keep them straight.

Many vendors are offering open source application stacks as an alternative to integrated sets of proprietary applications that have long locked users into the technology of a single supplier. However, some vendors and analysts are quick to criticise the emerging stacks, contending that they could lock in users the same way integrated stacks of a single vendor’s applications do.

What Sun finally did this week by releasing Java under GPL was a historic event. Using the GPL instead of yet another Sun license certainly makes adoption that much easier. But why did it take so long and why the change now?

At the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference the other day in Seattle, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer picked up the biggest, fattest, slitheriest worm out of that can of worms he opened up when he cut that deal with Novell and got Novell to squirming and wishing he hadn't.

A group of students at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse will be collaborating on the KDE projects KPlato and Umbrello as part of their Institut Universitaire Professionalisé en Ingénierie des Systèmes Informatiques (Professional Institute of Computer Software Engineering) course of study.

The true potential of Mobile AJAX applications lies in deploying rich browser-based applications on mobile devices. A lot has changed with Mobile AJAX in the past year. The first mobile AJAX applications are now live and we are seeing an increasing number of mobile devices being deployed with full browser technology (e.g.. JavaScript, CSS, AJAX etc).

You want games? Whoa, Nelly! The GP2X plays straight ports of PC games such as "Quake" and "Doom," plus it can use emulators such as MAME, SNES, Atari, Sega Megadrive, Genesis and GameGear. The GP2X file archive has hundreds of free games, while sites such as ROMNation offer thousands more.

This just isn't SCO's week. Here it is, leaning against the ropes in SCO v. IBM, and here comes Novell. It has filed a motion for partial summary judgement, asking the court to rule that the APA gives Novell the right to waive the contract claims SCO has against IBM and Sequent:

The “Linux vs Windows” debate generally revolves around the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) issue. Decision-makers rely heavily on their assessment of TCO—which includes hardware, software, installation, maintenance and business process costs—when making IT purchases. Fresh fuel has now been added to the debate of which software system to choose, following a Frost & Sullivan study which indicates that high-priced Windows has a lower TCO than the “free” Linux. The problem of course is that this is a Microsoft-commissioned study.

Intalio Inc., a maker of open source business process management software, has released its Tempo workflow framework under the Eclipse Public License. Tempo, which is available through an Intalio Web site, is an implementation of business process execution language for people (BPEL4People), jointly drafted by IBM and SAP AG.

Linux filesystem creator Hans Reiser pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he murdered his wife, who has been missing now since Labor Day weekend. Although he's lost his high-profile lawyer Daniel Horowitz because he can't afford him, Reiser exercised his right to a preliminary hearing within 10 days.

NEC will use Trolltech's recently announced Greensuite phone stack in a new 3G W-CDMA handset reference design. The "Medity" design is part of NEC's PlatformOvia family of hardware/software reference designs for handsets, digital audio-visual equipment, and automotive infotainment systems, many of which use Linux along with Trolltech's Qtopia middleware, according to the companies.

A patch to make disabling Hyper-Threading a boot time option resurfaced on the lkml. The patch was originally created in response to a Hyper-Threading vulnerability which was first discussed on the lkml in May of 2005.

IT consultant Yeoh HS has announced the release of an ebook with source codes package, titled MySharpSQL version 1.1, Easy Way to Use MySQL with C#. The eBook and step by step commented C# source codes make it easy to learn and code MySQL client programs in C#.

Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB, was awarded the "European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006" award on Thursday night at a Gala Dinner in Geneva. The award was the main prize handed out at the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award" created to recognize the European entrepreneur whose private company has had the biggest impact, on the largest number of people over the last three years.

In the year to come, we expect to see Linux maintain its torrid development pace, with major new enterprise releases from Red Hat, which is set to ship Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in January, and Novell, which will also ship an update to its Open Enterprise Server early next year. What's more, we expect to see one or two new releases from each of the all-free leading-edge distributions we track, such as Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE, along with new developments from the swelling horde of smaller Linux flavors, in both commercial and non-commercial quarters.

Parsix 0.85 GNU/Linux, a Debian/Knoppix-derived distribution, was released in Iran, today, by its project team. Featuring a 2.6.18 kernel and GNOME 2.16.2 desktop environment, Parsix comes as a live and installation CD. Parsix supports both the English and Persian keyboards, and the user can switch easily from one language to another by using Alt+Ctrl or Ctrl+Shift keys, the project team said. It also includes the xFarDic English-Persian dictionary and several free Persian fonts from FarsiWeb and FPF projects.

Conversant has released a "complete" suite of open-source software development kits (SDKs) for building collaborative applications based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). The SDKs, collectively known as SoapBox Studio, support version 2 of the .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework (CF) managed application environments.