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Google has released a version of Google Earth for Linux, at last. The Beta Version 4 has been tested on numerous versions of Linux, including Ubuntu, Suse, Linspire and Red Hat, and is a significant improvement to running Google Earth under Wine.

...but men are just as welcome! The Fedora Infrastructure and Administration Project is looking for people who want to help create & maintain infrastructure that will take Fedora to the next level.

Red Hat is not losing any sleep over Microsoft's impending entry into the cluster computing space.

Linux Australia, Australia's peak Open Source Software community group, announced the launch of a petition today calling on the Australian Federal Government to resist pressure to abandon consumer and competition rights when drafting anti-circumvention laws. New laws are required under the terms of the Free Trade Agreement negotiated between Australia and the United States.

Collabora Ltd. develops Open Source Telepathy framework for VoIP and Instant Messaging on the Nokia 770 Internet tablet

Surfing the Web has meant using much the same technology for years. Now startups are working on new ways to navigate the Net.

I returned from a wonderful vacation in Florida to discover that my broadband cable service was no longer working. After some troubleshooting, replacing some coax lines and connectors, I ended up having to replace my Linksys cable modem/router combo unit. I ended up going with a D-Link DCM-202 cable modem and a Linksys WRTSL54GS, which is a router, firewall, 802.11g access point, 4-port switch, and even a USB port for external media storage. However, the best part about the WRTSL54GS is that it is supported by OpenWRT, a free software GNU/Linux distribution built to replace the standard Linksys firmware. Obviously, doing so will void your warranty. But in doing so, you will gain more functionality.

Novell on Monday plans to officially launch Bandit, an open-source identity management project that was quietly started earlier this year.

The review we didn't want to write. It's buggy, it's unreliable, and it's definitely not polished. Dapper Drake doesn't deliver as promised. Now where did I put that copy of Suse 10.1? [Here's an Ubuntu review that LXer's readers might find aligns more closely with their own experiences - dcparris]

The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Defective By Design campaign against Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies ran into difficulties when it targeted Apple Stores across the United States on Saturday, June 10. As many as half the events were disrupted by security guards or police, while the campaign as a whole had little success in attracting mainstream media coverage. Despite the difficulties, organizers judged the event a success, both in mobilizing members of the two-week-old campaign and in educating the general public about the implications of DRM.

Steven Titch, Senior Fellow of the Heartland Institute, fans more flames in the Massachusetts ODF debate. [Look for LXer's response later this week - dcparris]

June 12th, 2006: An open-source web services startup, WSO2, has raised U.S.$4 million in capital from Intel and along with it, the perception of open-source companies as viable businesses.

Rational development

IBM has announced it has acquired BuildForge Inc, a privately held software company based in Texas.…

Jive Software announced this week that it plans to make the source of its IM client available under a free software license.

If you're a frequenter of LinuxWorld.com for Linux and open source news, don't adjust your browser color and font settings. The site relaunched last week under new ownership, as Network World took over the LinuxWorld.com domain.

A new wave of open-source tools will offer capabilities for collaboration, portals, content management and business intelligence, say analysts

A Hanover-based tax department is ditching Sun for SuSe Linux and KDE desktops

The new partners signed include Bangalore IT Capital, Ashram, Login & Anora in Bangalore, Dynamic, Veeras & Gem Infotech in Chennai and SP Soft, Softpro & Computech in Hyderabad

TimeSys will offer several educational webinars this month, on topics of general interest to embedded developers. It will also launch a series of "training" webinars available to subscribers (including trial subscribers) of its "LinuxLink" online services.

Nokia's open source Maemo project has released a beta version of its next-generation SDK (software developer kit). The Mistral SDK beta aims to help developers port applications to Maemo 2.0 prior to the debut of Tablet OS 2006 for the Nokia 770 later this quarter.