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The last time I did a review of a browser beta, I'm embarrassed to say I got it wrong. My apologies to Opera 9 fans. Your favourite browser is lightning fast - I just didn't wait for my cache to catch up. I still prefer the Firefox interface and I reckon the speed is comparable. Oh that's right, this article is supposed to be about the latest Internet Explorer 7 beta. In my opinion, it's a dog. It's slow and I hate the user interface.

So there you are, dutifully wading through the documentation for whatever gnarly Linux application you're rassling into submission. You're running commands and editing configuration files and things are working and life is good. Until -- yes, you knew the good times weren't going to last -- until you hit the dreaded "send the process a SIGHUP" instruction.

Never forget that while he was unable to right Sun in recent years, McNealy wasn't just an industry giant, he changed the IT world forever.

Two weeks ago, you read about several apps which keep KDE 3.5 alive. Today's issue of the mini-series provides even more reasons to love KDE. Covered applications include Krita, the image and painting application, Guidance, a configuration tool, frontends to Beagle and finally Scribus, the Qt-based DTP application.

A graduate student in Colombia has developed a small ARM9 SBC (single-board computer) that runs Debian Linux. Carlos Camargo says he built his ECB_AT91 board for a doctoral research project in swarm robotics. He claims his design to be the first Linux-enabled SBC developed in Colombia.

SAN DIEGO -- The Desktop Linux Summit (DLS) 2006 kicked off yesterday in the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego. The summit, now in its fourth year, was created by Linspire, but it has outgrown its uni-distro roots, with sponsors and speakers coming from competing Linux vendors such as Mandriva, Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. An opening day crowd of more than 600 attendees heard a range of speakers reflecting that diversity.

In the same way that Linux is battling against a much larger competitor in the software industry, so AMD is confronted by a quasi-monopoly rival in micro-processors. This is a comparison that appeals to AMD which claims to deliver a similar value proposition to that offered by Linux.

[Interview with AMD CEO Dirk Meyer - dcparris]

A Javascript handling issue in the latest version of the Firefox browser can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and crash the browser.

Award-Winning Xandros Server Delivers Effortless Replacement for File, Print, and Groupware Servers for Enterprises and SMBs

The OpenBRR Corporate Community presents its closed membership as a way for CIOs and IT directors to safely share information, but some find this inappropriate.

SAVOY, Ill., April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Argus Systems Group, the global leader in trusted web foundations, today announced the release of PitBull Foundation and PitBull Foundation Suite for Linux. Users can now have MultiLevel Security (MLS) on a Linux platform.

Columnist John Gapper, writing in Monday’s FT under the headline “A threat to the fragile Linux ecosystem”, said: “Anything that makes companies less confident about Linux would provide a reason to buy Microsoft software instead, which is why IBM makes a point of supporting both Novell and Red Hat.” (For details, see: news.ft.com/home/us Registration required.)

Many private sector companies are not likely to join the OSS bandwagon unless they can see their competitors using the opportunity to make profit. "The private sector has more issues to worry about -- namely escalation of employee costs, foreign competition, shrinking market size, less mega-projects and environmental problems," said Open Source Special Interest Group chairman Lee Nan Phin.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- April 25, 2006 -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) and MySQL AB today announced that HP will offer new services for MySQL(R) database software.

Red Hat says Linux and open source have only scratched the surface on Wall Street and it is becoming increasingly expensive for proprietary vendors to compete.

NEW YORK -- Think you're going to save gobs of money by opting for Linux over other operating systems?

Reuters' market information services are now available for the SuSE Linux platform following a joint effort by the global information provider and Novell. Reuters says Linux is becoming an increasingly popular server option for many financial organisations.

Seasoned Security Expert and Vulnerability Researcher to Demonstrate Best Practices for Avoiding Devastating Web Application Attacks

The company touts the benefits of its Blue Gene supercomputer, which it says consumes less power and takes up less floor space than traditional systems, at the Linux on Wall Street conference.

The best things in life aren’t free, but you can get some great software without spending a dime if you have an Internet connection and know where to look.