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The sales of platform software were 3.614 billion yuan with a year-on-year rise of 10.6 percent. As the focus of the government and the industry, LINUX reported sales of 29.486 million yuan with a rise of 33.1 percent year-on-year.

This review is subtitled "the Desktop Linux Showcase" which hints that it's not going to be a regular review about Mandriva Linux 2006 - I will certainly mention the strong and weak points about Mandriva Linux 2006, and report how things work in everyday use. But on top of that, I have decided to add some (well, a lot) more information; first, you will find an article within this review, about the background of the software repositories and software installation on Linux (please use that permanent link to the inline article). This will be illustrated and explained with Mandriva Linux specific tools, but most of the information is valid for all major Linux distributions.

Dissatisfied with the quality of current South African search engines, Alistair Carruthers has built Jonga with a mixture of open source and proprietary tools, which he hopes will become the first stop for South African Web searches when it launches later this month.

When preparing for a test, your chances of passing are better if your study buddy helped write it. That's the idea IBM had when it hired atsec, an information technology security consulting firm, to help it get Common Criteria certification for eServers running Red Hat's Enterprise Linux operating system.

"There is a lot of momentum for Linux on handhelds, specifically for mobile phones," says Eirik Chambe-Eng, president and cofounder of Trolltech, a company that builds a GUI on top of Linux for mobile devices and has joined the OSDL effort.

Welcome to our issue number 21 of Fedora Weekly News.

[Ed: I passed on this article earlier in the day. One of our readers suggested we look at it again. Well, I don't consider it a fit. The author doesn't seem to have a real handle on the subject. But he does make a point or two worth nothing. He writes:"Too many of these companies [now forming] are being funded without a community," said David Skok, a venture capitalist at Matrix Partners. "If a community doesn't form and form fast, then they're going to burn through their venture capital, and they're going to be disasters."

The worse part of the article waffles around the metaphor of a bubble that might burst and the imagery of Venture Capital firms pouring money into startups. So, look past that and you might find a gem in the story. - tadelste]

New nGenius Performance Manager Appliance Tailored to Support Large NetFlow Implementations; Support for NetFlow Version Nine Added

The Linux.Plupii worm is attacking Linux distributions via several Web service related holes.

At the initiative of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, the national research institutes of France and China have signed a declaration of intent to promote Open Source middleware. The French Computer Science Institute INRIA will be working with the Chinese coordination center in the High-Tech Development and Research Program (HTRDP), also simply called Program 863. They will be representing the development consortia: France's ObjectWeb and China's Orientware.

Tech Analysis: Software project must iron out code issues.

A new inititive by the Brazillian government will see low cost KDE based computers on sale throughout the country from next week. The Computers for All scheme will bring "cheap and accessible" computers following a recent law cutting taxes and encouraging affordable financing for low income buyers of computers preinstalled with Free Software operating systems. Several companies are involved in the scheme with most using KDE desktops. The Ministry of Science hopes for half a million machines to be sold in the next 4 to 6 months.

TOKYO & BRISBANE, Calif. – Hitachi (NYSE:HIT) has launched a highly scalable and performance oriented blade server platform called "BladeSymphony" as part of its global IT platform business operation in North America, where the market for blade servers is growing rapidly, driven by stringent requirements for cost efficiency and high performance by enterprises seeking to stay competitive and agile.

The Linsoft.cz people write... we have decided to build a Linux Software directory easy to use, with good navigation, costumer reports etc. which would be the first source of information about Linux Software on the internet. That is why it is done bilingualy, in Czech and English. There are still many features to add, stay tuned.

...we have 1660 software items in our database, and in February we had over 1000 visitors a day with peak of 2900.

32% are Czech
15% from USA
12% from Poland
6% from Slovakia
4% from Germany.

The Linuxer Team writes: Here is the place for greek tuxers...
Sorry but content of this site is provided only in greek language.
If you understand greek then please press on greek flag at the left bottom..
Reload the page to see new tip &funny messages
Enjoy your visit..

The page from which we are quoting is in English. We're please to know that they often link to our articles.

We're also please to tell you that Linuxer runs on a XBOX using Xebian.

A French consortium has reached an agreement with government representatives in China to develop a middleware stack using open source software from ObjectWeb.

[Ed: This formally begins our linking to a series of articles published in the past, which we have found to shed light on current affairs. - tadelste.]

Unisys and Microsoft plan to launch a marketing campaign Friday that seeks to undermine Unix, the operating system at the heart of powerful server lines from rivals Sun Microsystems, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Original Article Dated: March 28, 2002. Now, Unisys wants to be your friend. See: Unisys assumes open source missionary position
Did Bill Gates Invent Linux and Has He Erased the Evidence?

Paul relates his experience with regard to different kinds of discrimination in the work place. The subject related to age discrimination.

Paul writes: "One guy might be able to log in and fix a problem (He's my hero) -- another guy might be the type that prevented this problem from ever rearing its ugly head in the first place -- how do you, as a middle manager, even see the latter value if it doesn't happen?"

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Avoiding Oblivion in Your Tech Career

San Francisco, California (AHN) - The Firefox web browser's popularity is on the rise, with the number of internet users continuing to increase. Over 10% of users that browse the internet now use Firefox, making it only second to Internet Explorer.

Research reveals that Americans are the biggest fans of Firefox with 14.1% using it. In the United Kingdom 4.9% use it to get around online.

The Chilean government has announced that it will not participate in the "One Laptop Per Child" program being promoted by MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte, regional press reported on Thursday.

While the Argentine government recently committed to purchasing at least half a million of the US$100 computers, the Chilean authorities showed no interest acquiring them.