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Canonical seeks clean-cut, non-smoking businesses that preferably have some spare cash (but not essential). The open source software firm has introduced a partnership programme aimed at encouraging business development around Ubuntu. Will SA firms bite?

When Novell gave up supporting KDE, I expected something to happen. But what I didn't expect Novell to do, as one KDE supporter put it to me,"was to cave in so fast."

Kill Bill's Browser: 13 Good reasons to switch from IE to Firefox is pretty funny. (8. Mozilla has never made a talking paper clip.)

New software platform brings ease and interactivity of desktop applications to high-performance computers

Christopher Koch, CIO's Executive Editor, Investigations, presents good, honest conversation about what works and what doesn't for creating an enterprise IT strategy that aligns with the business strategy of the company. Do you have an issue you'd like to see covered here? Do you have some nugget of wisdom you'd like to share? Did you recently read something or hear a good presentation about the topic that would help other CIOs?

Outside the United States and Europe, cost is a big motivator for governments to open source software, but it's not the only one, experts say.

In less than a month after its GA, MySQL has hit the 1 million download mark. To commemorate the milestone, OET takes a look at the MySQL user trends with MySQL’s architecture director Brian Aker. OET also provides a list of 3rd party support products that are assisting MySQL 5’s push into the enterprise.

With so many interesting Linux desktop-oriented books published on an ongoing basis, we thought it might be useful to aggregate them into a convenient "Desktop Linux book roundup." As of its launch today, the roundup currently includes ten recently published books.

Here's the report from the technical breakout group from the 11/4 ODF summit:

solrac writes: Java 5.0 offers developers some powerful new choices for developing high-performance concurrent applications. You can now download the IBM Java 5 Standard Edition at no charge.


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Alex posted this information: Nokia started accepting orders for Linux-based Nokia 770 wireless Internet tablet device. It's $359.99, but shows out of stock on NokiaUSA.com site.


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The Mozilla Foundation announced at the end of last week the Release Candidate 2 for Firefox 1.5, and this time there were no complaints from testers. For the previous release, things didn't go so well for the Foxy browser.

Video Card Reviews Phoronix writes "Over the past couple of weeks, we have compiled quite a few Linux articles that your readers may find of interest. On the topic of NVIDIA graphics, we had recently reviewed an eVGA GeForce 6800GT PCI-E. This 256MB card, now being replaced by the 6800GS, offered very interesting results when compared against the 7800GTX. Over onto benchmarking, a few days after the Quake 4 release we featured a Doom 3 v. Quake 4 Performance article.

New Development Platform Gives OEMs the Hardware and the tools Needed to Maximize the Potential of Software Defined Radio

DataDirect Networks, Cluster File Systems and Voltaire Achieve 15 Gigabytes/second in Sandia's RoSE Visualization Cluster

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) announced a new world record TPC-H 300 gigabyte (GB) benchmark for Oracle(R) Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Ron Hovsepian, Novell's new president and chief operating officer, noted that Novell has increased the number of packaged applications supported by SuSE Linux to more than 1,000, up from 42 when it bought the operating system in January 2004. But he also stressed the importance of "driving open source where it is needed and not trying to force-fit it" into user sites.

[Ed: In biz-speak this is what a new executive says to explain why his company hasn't performed well. Out of the other side of his mouth, he will explain that Novell is now the number one distributor of Linux in China. If this is the kind of non-sense we can expect out of Hovsepian, then the board of directors might consider another change. Novell was winning support from the community that makes it run. But if you're going to act like the people who lost the NOS market to Microsoft and became a non-event, then we suggest you lose the Open-Source business. We thought Novell's spin was in the past. - tadelste]

The CSIR's Meraka Institute will be showcasing some of South Africa's top open source projects at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia, which kicks off today.

Microsoft's "Get the Facts" advertising campaign makes the claim that Windows offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Linux, and backs it up with reports from well-known industry analyst firms. But Linux advocates claim that the TCO of Linux is lower, and some other studies back them up. How can you separate the fact from the fiction?

Welcome to our issue number 22 of Fedora Weekly News.