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eLiberatica, the first national Romanian conference on free and open source software (FOSS), is scheduled for May 18-19 in the city of Braşov. The conference is the result of 18 months of planning by Lucian Savlac, a Romanian immigrant to Canada, assisted by FOSS licensing consultant Zak Greant. The goal is nothing less than unifying FOSS promotion throughout Romania and encouraging its adoption by business through grassroots organization. The goal, says Greant, "is to help build a broad, sustainable, effective free and open source movement in Romania that includes programmers, university students, and business people."

It was decided by a few that I can say with assurance that this letter represents millions of Linux Users.

KDE was present at Cebit 2007 in Hannover, the world's largest IT fair. The booth was located inside the LinuxPark in Hall 5, where Linux New Media had given us and other open source projects the opportunity to present their work. Alexander Neundorf, KDE buildsystem maintainer and the booth manager in charge for large parts of the event, considers this year's CeBIT "a very successful event for KDE". Read on for his report.

Full Circle, the Ubuntu community magazine, has just released its first issue. The first of what will be a regular monthly feature, the April issue covers the history of Ubuntu, details changes to upcoming Fiesty Fawn and includes an installation guide.

Low-cost computer maker releases LiveCD version of Linux operating system software that will be run on PCs destined for developing world.

Stuart Cohen stepped down from his role as CEO of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) in in December, saying that he was going to "explore open source joint development using best practices in collaboration and building communities." Today, Cohen has announced what's he's been up to since then. He has formed the Collaborative Software Initiative, a for-profit company that will try to bring companies together to use open source methodology to develop software for vertical industries.

DriveSavers' Digital Arts Division Celebrates 25 Percent Increase in New Clients

multi-platform data recovery, not necessarily libre - dcparris

A new computer that is half the size of a thick book and powered by a motorcycle battery and recharged by the sun is to be used by rural Ugandans.

In myfirst SuitWatch Newsletter, on September 5, 2002, I wrote this:"A funny thing happened to Linux on the way to World Domination: it succeeded. That's the good news; the bad news is its success has hit a few hitches, and it's unclear how long those hitches will last."The biggest hitch— dominating PCs the way Linux has dominated servers and embedded devices— is still around, almost five years later. And it will remain a hitch as long as hardware OEMs continue to follow Microsoft rather than lead the marketplace.That's the gauntlet I threw down last Wednesday, inmy last SuitWatch. And now I'm throwing it down here. I want to challenge the big hardware OEMs— Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony and the rest of them— to break free of the only form factors Microsoft will let them make, and start leading the marketplace by making make cool, interesting, fun and useful stuff that isn't limited by any one company's catalog of possibilities. Stop making generic stuff. Grow greener grass beyond the Windows fences. Stop thinking of Linux as"generic" and"a commodity". Start looking at how building only Windows PCs forcesyou to make generic, commodity products.

A compromised DNS server could send browsers to malicious Web sites and cause problems with directory services and e-mail.

There are lots of ways in which Linux applications can be tweaked to your personal taste. Here's one of my favourites...

One of the hardest things for users of other platform to understand is that GNU/Linux does not have a single graphical display. Instead, there are dozens, ranging from basic window managers that control the look and positioning of windows in the X Window system, to complete desktop environments with a wide variety of utilities and specially designed applications.

Last week started talking about GPL 3.0 and the fact that folks on both sides don’t seem to want you to read it. In addition, we discussed the basics of software licenses, and how the new model presented by the GPL creates some challenges for companies.

When I heard a sharp and continuous beeping sound, I had just grabbed my mug to enjoy my evening tea with the movie I was trying to watch. Without asking any questions to my computer (implicitly or explicitly), I had put down the mug and reached for the reset button on my PC. This was the third time in 45 minutes and it had never happened before. After I had upgraded to a ATI Radeon X1650XT, things started to go awry in a very annoying fashion.

One thing must be said from the start: Microsoft Vista is a modern operating system that offers a variety of genuine improvements over Windows XP. On top of that, Vista also looks much spiffier than its predecessor. Even so, there are a variety of reasons not to blindly reach for Vista. A consideration of the alternatives is in order, and Linux is at the top of the list.

With a major revampment of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition, MontaVista Software hopes to spur development of more embedded Linux systems in handheld PDAs, smart phones, telecom equipment, and all manner of other devices.

The KDE project is happy to announce the selection of 40 KDE projects for the Google Summer of Code 2007.

Linuxfest Northwest 2007 is coming to Bellingham, Wash., on April 28 and 29.

There’s lots of stuff out there about improving your workflow on Macs (lots of it based around Getting Things Done or similar ideas). I do have a Mac, and some of this I’ve found very useful (and some less so, admittedly).

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says the Ubuntu developer team is planning a new ultra-free flavour of Ubuntu that is planned for release alongside Ubuntu version 7.10 - codenamed Gutsy Gibbon - later this year.