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With digital music formats becoming ever more popular, the demand for different ways to play music files has also escalated.
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So what has this device got to do with Linux or Unix?

Linux Journal is updating its Linux Timeline to mark its 150th issue and 15 years of Linux. The timeline was created in 2002, and currently contains no African milestones. Tectonic suggests a few.

The command line can tell you a lot, if you bother to ask it. Most of us learned the five Ws as a research rubric: who? what? where? when? why? (and usually, how?). By sheer coincidence, the five Ws can also illuminate important characteristics on your Linux system, its users, processes, and commands.

Portland conference - Software developers from around the globe will gather to share tips and war stories

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's free software makes maintaining records easier. This could be vital in an emergency.
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"After Hurricane Isabel [in 2003], we had cancer patients who didn't know what chemotherapy drugs they were on," said Nancy Davenport-Ennis, chief executive officer of the Patient Advocate Foundation, a nonprofit based in Newport News, Va.

[It is not clear from the article whether this vital software is Free (Libre) or merely free (gratis). Could someone track this down, please? -- grouch]

Anyone who has used Linux will know that sometimes things don't always work as you expect and finding good help is not simple. Usually the problems are simple enough and have more to do with differences between the way operating systems work than with anything else but getting them sorted is important. Linux Annoyances for Geeks tries to solve as many of these problems as possible and makes for informative reading.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: KDevelop gets new configuration framework functionality. The start of a Satellite tracks feature in KStars. Support for PDF data extraction, and speed optimisations in Strigi. New features in KPhotoAlbum (KPhotoAlbum is the new name for KimDaBa). Perspective grid support in Krita, with the implementation of a Bezier tool becoming feature-complete. More work on unit conversions in KRecipes. Porting of KRDC to KDE 4.

The world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise , today announced that Venkatesh Hariharan, Head of Open Source Affairs in India, was honored as the "Indian Open Source Personality of the Year" at the LinuxAsia LFY Awards ceremony on February 9th, 2006 held in New Delhi. At Red Hat, Hariharan (popularly known as "Venky") is responsible for working with industry, academia, government and community to grow the open source ecosystem.

A subsidiary of Shanghai's stock exchange will use Turbolinux Inc.'s server software to provide information to the securities industry, the company said Monday.

Novell has unveiled the latest rendition of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, a platform that includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.

Online research communities aim to unite scientists worldwide to find cures for neglected diseases

Scientists from Sydney to San Francisco have created an online research collaboration to develop cures for tropical diseases, using the "open source" programming model that produced freeware like Linux and Firefox, the award-winning Web browser.

Microsoft Corp. and XenSource Inc. will cooperate on the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and the new Microsoft Windows hypervisor technology-based Windows Server virtualization.

# Pros: Achieves high-performance virtual machines as a result of acceptable flexibility compromises; Minimal disk usage per VPS because it uses links instead of copying code where possible; Attractive price; Superb GUI management tool
# Cons: Understanding and creating templates can be a bit tricky until you’ve understood how they work

[Add one more "Con": not FOSS. Only you can decide if that's a deal-breaker. -- grouch]

The executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, Mike Milinkovich, recently told us that "We don't really have a relationship with Sun...I've made numerous entreaties to try to engage Sun with Eclipse, from Jonathan Schwartz down, and I've never had anything other than 'thanks for calling'."

[The quote is a repeat from an earlier story, but there are some more tidbits of information in this report. -- grouch]

DEEPLY scarred by a landslide tragedy, residents of Guinsaugon in Leyte are starting to pick up from what is left of their once thriving community like the legendary phoenix rising from its ashes.

Move criticized as a concession to proprietary technology vendors

A joint U.S. and Canadian organization that certifies encryption tools for use by federal government agencies has suspended its validation of OpenSSL cryptographic technology for the second time in less than six months.

Once a tool primarily used by law enforcement to help identify criminals, biometric technologies increasingly are being used by government and the private sector to authenticate a person’s identity, provide security at the nation’s borders and restrict access to secure sites—both buildings and computer networks. New software and other tools that can be used to help build improved biometric applications are now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

[Note: There is a world of difference between Free/Open Source Software, which is copyrighted material, and public domain source code, which... well, is not copyrighted. - dcparris

Novell New Zealand continued its golden run last year, posting a 30 per cent increase in revenues.

[It's good to see Novell making progress with their GNU/Linux system. Now if they can replicate that success here in the US, they'll be well on their way to recovering their investment. - dcparris]

Meanwhile, the Shuttleworth Foundation and Engen have also been working in conjunction with the Province's Department of Education to launch Tux computer labs in the Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage areas.

"So far 35 of these Tux labs have been launched, and we are looking at launching another 50 by the end of the year," said Mr. Jones.

[It's great to see GNU/Linux systems being setup like this. Ironically, Microsoft has to 'donate' their software, since it isn't FOSS. - dcparris]

In the new "Age of Copyright," dynasties are founded on cartoon characters, lawyers play extreme sports, and we all break the law. It's never been easier to stake a creative claim — or jump one.
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Not everyone seems to have noticed, but it's clear we recently zipped past the "information economy" and straight into the "copyright economy."

[The site requires registration, but the article just might important enough to our readers. We leave it up to you. - dcparris]