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Linux Networx has announced that its LS Series of Linux Supersystems has received market acceptance and growth. Key customer installations include Ansaldo, ATK Inc., DaimlerChrysler AG, Esteco, L-3 Communications, MAGMA, MobotecUSA, Motorola, NASA Glenn Research Center, NPU, South Africa's PBMR, Technocast, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, CNR and the University of Pavia and Weinman GeoSciences.

A packet sniffer is a program which monitors network traffic which passes through your computer. A packet sniffer which runs on your PC connected to the internet using a modem, can tell you your current IP address as well as the IP addresses of the web servers whose sites you are visiting.

Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (ASIT) has just unleashed the latest in a long line of bipedal robots to come out of the R&D labs of this country.

The National Security Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory are working in a joint initiative with software vendors, defense contractors and academia to develop products based on a highly secure information architecture known as Multiple Independent Levels of Security.

[It mentions CC EAL 6+, which caused me to go back and look at David A. Wheeler's High Assurance and FLOSS. Combining the two has my head spinning. -- grouch]

Linux Phrasebook, newly published by Pearson Education ($14.99), offers a concise, pocket-sized reference that, like a language phrasebook, can be used on the fly. It's also a useful reference book for desktop Linux users who want to learn a bit about using the command line.

Foreword -- In this detailed, in-depth interview, Philippe Robin, ARM Ltd.'s product manager for Linux, explains how Linux helps ARM test its processors, the growing adoption of embedded Linux and ARM, and new technologies of possible interest to embedded Linux developers targeting ARM processors.

On 30 May 2006 TurboLinux announced the release of version 11, also called Fuji. While TurboLinux remains very popular in Asia, particularly Japan, this announcement generated little attention or enthusiasm in the United States or Europe. The fact that TurboLinux Fuji 11 Desktop is doing something revolutionary almost went unnoticed.

Ryan Cloke's vision is to do business in a "better way." He's the owner of TheLinuxStore.ca, a Web site that sells low-cost Linux CDs, laptops, and custom workstations. This morning, to fulfill his vision, he began distributing free CDs of popular distributions like Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, and Knoppix. The response has been overwhelming.
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So at midnight on July 13, free.linuxstore.ca opened for business. Demand for the free disks has been brisk, to say the least. Less than 24 hours into the venture, Cloke had more than 2,500 requests for free disks, with SUSE the most frequently asked-for CD set.

"This is a huge amount," Cloke says. "A lot more than I anticipated." He says he's going to need financial help to meet the demand. "I currently only have enough funding to fill 400 requests." The project is funded partly by profits from The Linux Store, but Cloke is also relying on donations and sponsorships from the general public and community businesses.

[Time to help, if you can! -- grouch]

Following a disappointing second quarter and a failure to grow its base of Linux customers as quickly as investors had hoped, the board of directors at Novell Inc. said they voted to oust former CEO Jack Messman and former CFO Joseph Tibbetts last month.

RidgeRun, a stalled start-up focused on Linux development for Texas Instruments (TI) dual-core (RISC/DSP) processors, has re-launched. The new RidgeRun will offer Linux, Windows, and RTEMS BSPs (board support packages), drivers, application development, and software integration services for ARM-based processors from multiple vendors, including TI.

SUSE has announced SUSE Linux 10.2 Codename "Basilisk Lizard" Alpha2. It's downloadable from today on and will be the last community/consumer distribution called SUSE Linux. SUSE Linux will be renamed to openSUSE.

Mark Barrenechea Retains Board Seat Representing Garnett & Helfrich

First came Google Spreadsheets and Google Calendar, and now the company plans to support OpenDocument Format.

In this episode: LR email notification now available; future voice mail possibility; Mutt and Mutt-ng; listener feedback, our first Listener Tip on symbolic links; a review of Linux audio players and applications, including Xmms, Beep Media Player, BMPx, Audacious, Grip, Ripperx, Goobox, Soundjuicer, Kscd, Gnome CD Player, Amarok, kaboodle, Juk, Noatun, Banshee, Rhythmbox, and the Music Player Daemon (mpd) and its related clients, like Gnome Music Player, Glurp, Kmp, mpc, and ncmpc.

Today's edition of The Guardian, the UK newspaper, has a humourous column about the horrors of being forced to use Internet Explorer rather than Mozilla Firefox at work.

[Some mozillaZine commenters could use some gentle enlightenment on who to blame for IE's horrors. -- grouch]

So it's only when I work in an office that I am exposed to the full horror of Internet Explorer. Businesses, particularly newspaper offices, have yet to join the Firefox revolution. Corporate IT installations are like ocean liners: vast, not updated often enough, slow to respond and bloody difficult to turn around.
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Firefox is wonderful. It's up there with chocolate and sex on the grand scale of great things about being alive.

Tedd Caldwell didn't know much about computers before his dad retired from NASA in 1999. But Dad didn't take too well to just "sitting around"; he needed something to keep him active. After some consideration, Caldwell decided the answer would be to start a family business. So he created a Web site called SeniorGlobe.com, with message boards, chat, links to news stories, and other interactive community content. One good site led to another, until today the Caldwells find themselves in the Web development business.

A recent discussion on LXer asked the question, " Where are the readers?" It spawned an informative discussion about analysis of web site statistics. Those statistics are fairly obviously of financial concern to the publisher, since it costs money to keep LXer online, but are they important, otherwise? Do they serve the community of GNU/Linux and FOSS?

In preparation for the forthcoming releases of Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.5, a 1.5.0.5 Community Test Day is taking place today. From 7:00am until 5:00pm Pacific Daylight Time (2:00pm until 12:00am UTC), testers will be invited to check the latest release candidate builds of 1.5.0.5 for new bugs and regressions. The event will be coordinated via a special IRC channel.

Today on People Behind KDE we introduce you to Ellen Reitmayr, one of KDE and OpenUsability.org's top usability experts.