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Software maker expected to give away product that lets multiple OSes run on the same PC, CNET News.com has learned.

IBM is offering a free version of its database manager, DB2 Express-C, in a bid to lure software developers to work on it. IBM's offering comes fast on the heels of similar offerings by Microsoft and Oracle and joins MySQL and PostgreSQL as free databases that can be easily downloaded.

An interesting research paper by three Harvard scholars, reveals that the apparent weakness of the open-source organizational model - the constraints on close collaboration among programmers - may actually be a hidden strength.

The research implies that open source's advantage doesn't stem from the strength of the programmer community. It stems from the weakness of that community.

The rumor mill is active again concerning a Google Linux distribution. Whatever the case might be someone has posted screenshots of the alleged internal effort dubbed Goobuntu

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ZDNet UK spoke to Cox last week about a wide range of topics, including the next version of the GPL, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop.

KDE 3.5.1 was released today, featuring fixes to over 150 reported bugs and many other small improvements making this the most stable and feature-rich Unix desktop ever

The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.5 beta 1, the first preview release for KOffice 1.5, scheduled for release this March.

Novell has had one of those amazingly simple ideas that make you ask: "Why didn't I think of that?" The Linux vendor is using its Cool Solutions community-relations website to conduct an online public survey to determine which Windows-only applications people want to run on their Linux systems.

The Secure Shell protocol is one step closer to becoming an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard. Earlier this month SSH Communications Security Corp. announced that the Secure Shell protocol specifications have reached Proposed Standard status.

Xandros Inc. launched a special Education Edition of its flagship Xandros Desktop OS Linux distribution, this week, aimed at students ranging from elementary school through college.

Typically, installing Linux means donwloading (or buying) one or more ISO images, and then clicking through the install screens. In an effort to make Linux installs easier, some smart folks at HP developed LinuxCOE, where a user could choose some basic options through a web interface, and a small (30MB or less) ISO image is generated that can be used for a "hands-free" installation using either Kickstart, AutoYAST, or the Debian Preseed autoinstallers.

Just five days after Novell's OpenSUSE project released SUSE 10.1 Beta 1, the company on Thursday unveiled Beta 2, a bugfix version. As in Beta 1, the latest release supports the Intel and AMD x86 and x86-64 platforms as well as the PowerPC platform.

Pertec Inc. last week introduced UbuntUSB, touted as an easy way to install Ubuntu Linux on a portable USB hard drive, letting any PC boot Ubuntu Linux without requiring either BIOS or system reconfiguration.

A company specializing in carrier-class WiFi network management software is shipping an appliance version of its flagship product. The Sputnik Server 1100 offers a way for wireless service providers, carriers, and businesses to buy Sputnik Control Center software pre-installed on a standard Intel-based server appliance.

OpenVZ wants to see its virtualisation technology in the heart of the open source operating system. OpenVZ divides a single copy of Linux so it appears to be several independent instances of the operating system, from the perspective of higher-level software. Separate domains, called virtual private servers, can be independently rebooted — though in reality, the underlying operating system stays up and running.

IBM's ATF Project will contain features for developing, deploying, debugging and testing AJAX applications. The AJAX Toolkit Framework will provide extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for building IDEs for the many different AJAX runtime offerings, such as Dojo, Zimbra, etc. in the market.

I work as a senior sysadmin for the University of Seville in Spain, where we use a myriad of operating systems. Here are the top 10 utilities I use in my daily basic admin activities.

2X Software Ltd. announced Wednesday that it will give away software for a total of 1 million thin clients in a bid to demonstrate the advantages of its commercial thin-client computing software. The company is offering the first 200,000 visitors to its website a free five-thin-client license for 2X ThinClientServer.

[ED Note 2X is a sponsor of LXer so try it out. -bstadil}

Windows users aren't sure when, if ever, they'll be able to run XP on a Mactel, but Linux users know that they'll be doing it soon. Here's why.

Linux and open source software are jumping the hurdles to wider corporate adoption, and are delivering significant cost savings to companies that use them, according to a report released last month by consulting firm Optaros.