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In typical FOSS fashion, developers saw a good idea and made it better. The result was Beagle, a powerful searching and indexing tool for the Gnome desktop environment.

Beagle has been showing up slowly around the place, but nowhere as impressively as Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10). When they say “integrated” search at Novell, they really mean it.

Just after we went to press with the prior issue, commercial Linux distributor Red Hat reported its financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2007 ended May 31, and it has turned in another high-growth, high-profit quarter.

OpenClovis this week launches a series of free, hour-long webinars on applying its dual-licensed high-availability middleware and other "open standard" technologies to high availability systems in telecommunications and other markets.

Two months ago, OpenClovis released its complete telecom middleware stack as open-source software under the GPL, in hopes of expanding into markets outside of telecom, it said.

It was almost two years ago to the day that we reported on Internet Explorer's first-ever drop in browser market share.

Intrinsyc has added an LCD module and graphics stack based on Opie (open palmtop integrated environment) to its Intel XScale PXA270-based Linux reference design. The CerfBoard 270 with Display for Linux comes with a 2.6.14 kernel and a flexible bootloader, and targets Internet-based devices and appliances, according to the company.

Wikis and groupware are great for distributed collaboration between teams, but they lack the ability to provide real-time feedback to teams working on a shared document. Collaborative editors, on the other hand, give multiple users a convenient way to work together on one or more documents. Mac users have had SubEthaEdit for some time, but Gobby is the first collaborative editor for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X users. Let's take a look at how you can start editing documents with your friends and co-workers using Gobby.

Microsoft has been fined €280.5 million, the first time the EU Commission has ever had to do so, and, Neelie Kroes stated at the announcement, hopefully the last.
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Groklaw's Sean Daly attended the press conference by feed, and shares with us his notes. Transcript to follow.

I've been using the Firefox Web Developer toolbar for about a month now and quite simply....it rocks! It's got a tonne of features but here are some of my favourite:

The company's new product, available as part of Lotus Notes Version 7, uses the Eclipse development environment and will support both RHEL 4 and Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.

Hewlett-Packard's blade servers are at the centre of a new agreement whereby Bell Microproducts will be distributing the Red Hat enterprise Linux application to its resellers, stated Gary Gammon, senior vice president of marketing for Bell Microproducts' Enterprise Division.

Novell has announced two new programs for Linux training designed to promote education around open source. Novell unveiled its "Train the Teacher" series, which it is billing as the industry's first free week-long boot camp for Linux educators.

Digium CEO Mark Spencer explains how he's woven freely available software into a low-priced phone system for businesses

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Kamefu (a multi-machine emulator frontend) has been renamed Gamefu. Physiks, a physics educational project, and a project for advanced session management, both a result of the Summer Of Code, are imported into KDE SVN. Work progresses in the "GMail-style conversation view for KMail" and "WorKflow" projects. KDE 4 changes: KPat, a card game application, gets OpenGL bling, while kwin gets experimental compositing support and compiz-like effects. Okular gets support for the TIFF file format. Akonadi advances towards its goals with the import of a command-line and GUI client.

IBM is debuting a version of the desktop colloboration software that runs on the open-source operating system.

We are standing on the cusp of a real sea change in commodity hardware architectures—the move away from individual processing units that run at high speeds and temperatures to a team of connected units that individually (now at least) are less powerful, but make up for that several times over in sheer numbers. This shift is pervasive, from Unix servers to game consoles.

[While Mr. Sheil is talking mainly to Java programmers, the information provided applies to all languages. -- grouch]

Squiz today announced that leading community review forum, CMS Matrix, has voted MySource Matrix as the world's best supported open source CMS application.

Lance Ulanoff, my colleague at PC Magazine, has a problem. One of his favorite applications is the Macromedia vector-based drawing tool, Freehand. Those of you who pay close attention to software as a business already know where this tale is going.

Technocrat.net's internet provider, The Planet, has just merged with EV1 Servers.

EV1 is best known for having paid SCO for a license to use Linux, something that most people in the world had the brains not to do.

Mandriva has announced a set of online, tutored training classes aimed at satisfying the growing demand for Linux skills among both businesses and individuals.

Pentek will ship a more powerful version of its software radio transceiver, it says. The Model 7142 will offer more processing power and RAM than the earlier Model 7140. It will ship in several add-in card formats, and support Linux initially, followed by Windows and VxWorks.