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Linspire & Mirus Continue Partnership Expansion Of Linux-Only Product Line To The Consumer Market

With an estimated 50 million tons of electronic waste generated globally every year, e-waste and its disposal is a growing problem. Sangonet and the Information Technology Association will run a one-day conference alongside the Futurex show in May to bash out the issues.

I've just set up an"Open HealthCare" LinkedIn.com group to facilitate networking between biz devs, boosters, coders, contributors, venture-types. If that's of interest the invite link ishere. Please feel encouraged to forward the invite url to anyone who might benefit. Thanks.

Yes, Melinda, there is a choice: Functional ProgrammingBook review While it may appear that object oriented programming has achieved dominance in terms of programming language paradigms, there still exist outposts that refuse to submit to the benefits of polymorphism, encapsulation, and object inheritance.

Rootsh is a shell that logs everything a root user sees on his terminal. This is useful if you have more than one system administrator for a server and you want a record of exactly what any given user does. Despite the fact that the latest rootsh release was in March 2005, it still does its job great.

Web standards body World Wide Consortium plans to open a Southern Africa office later this month. Africans get ready to set some standards.

Rick Marshall has begun aVistA blog with some good prose:'...In the beginning it had no name. Amazingly, those who fought their David-and-Goliath battle to bring VISTA to the world merely described it rather than naming it, almost unthinkable in this era of branding urges so powerful we had to coin the term"vaporware" for our empty software names. Instead, the fathers of VISTA offered us abundant anonymity, a wealth of medical informatics with no name...'

Security-conscious BSD operating system issues a new release with extended hardware support and more than a handful of updates since last release.

One of the most hotly debated topics on the Internet today is, without a doubt, BitTorrent: the most popular peer-to-peer network protocol today.

Firm foothold established

Open source technology now has a firm foothold in the public sector, according to a new survey.

The One Laptop Per Child computer will now cost US$175 instead of the planned US$100 and will have the capability to run Windows as well as Linux. This does not mean, however, that OLPC is dumping Linux, say local developers.

The inclusion of Jabber's founder, Jeremie Miller, into the Wiki Search project has just been announced. He was hand picked by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, the company that is championing the open wiki-based search engine.

iKog is a text-based to-do manager that can help you to keep tabs on your tasks from the command line. Although it lacks all the bells and whistles of a full-blown GUI task manager, it's one of those tools that make a virtue of doing a limited range of tasks well. iKog is written in Python, and since most Linux distributions come with Python installed by default, iKog will run on them right out of the box.

The No. 2 PC maker in the world is going with Ubuntu this time around, Google responds to Viacom's lawsuit, and how dirty is your PC?

Debian Weekly News - April 24th, 2007. Welcome to this year's 5th issue of DWN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Roland Mas announced that Alioth users can use Mercurial for version control. Robert Millan announced version 0.4.0 of the Debian loader for Windows operating systems including Vista. Joey Schulze reported that security updates are available via IPv6 from official servers as well. The new release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is celebrated all over the world.

Univa Globus Cluster Edition 2.0 with Grid Engine Combines Proven Software, With Expert Services, Slashing Cluster Deployment and Management Costs

A diverse group of creative people, all geeks in their own right but not all "techies," decided to give the people of Iraq an opportunity to speak freely to a large audience about their experiences living in the midst of a war. These geeks, who call themselves Streamtime, decided to perform a Web radio experiment: they would train Iraqis to use Dyne:bolic and other free software to create instant Internet broadcasts wherever there was a computer and Internet access. In the summer of 2004, Streamtime packed up and traveled from Amsterdam to Iraq, surviving bombings and hack attacks in their quest to bring freedom of expression to a country on a rollercoaster of victory and violence. The experiment has ended, but the mission continues.

Bob Beck announced the availability ofOpenBSD 4.1 today:"We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.1. This is our 21st release on CD-ROM (and 22nd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system".OpenBSD 4.1 can bepurchased as a 3-CD set to help support the OpenBSD project [story], or freelydownloaded. Read on for Bob's detailed overview of what's new in this latest OpenBSD release.read more

The recently released 1.0.106 version of Libferris includes initial support for mounting Web photo services as a filesystem. This means that sites such as 23hq.com and flickr.com can be seen as filesystems, which allows users to upload digital pictures easily by using the cp(1) or ferriscp(1) tool with a destination of 23hq://username/upload.

Review: The latest version of Ubuntu Linux is called Feisty Fawn, and about all I can see it being good for is venison.