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Small organizations face tough challenges everyday: scarce resources, tight budgets and overwhelming odds. Computer technology holds promise, potentially dramatically increasing capacity and functionality for small groups. However it's a double-edged sword - poorly/improperly maintained and configured computer systems can create havoc for over-burdened staff. As an added challenge, small organizations rarely understand the broad range of technologies, including operating systems, that are available to them. The LINC Project Guide to Choosing an Operating System is intended to be a first step to empowering groups to make informed decisions about which operating systems to select when acquiring or retrofitting a computer system.

Debian luminary Wichert Akkerman -- aka Wiggy -- has been reporting on his website this morning about a tragic automobile accident near Paris. At first Richard Stallman was thought to have been a passenger in the car, but later reports said he had already been dropped off when the accident occured. Wiggy will continue to update his site as more information comes in.

Microsoft Corp. will introduce the Windows XP Starter Edition in India early next year, the company said Wednesday, two days after announcing similar plans for Russia.

InfoWorld - IBM Corp. said Monday it will release as open source code some of its software for speech-enabling applications. The move is intended to spur development in the field and outflank rivals by making IBM's free technology the industry standard.

Although Linux may be shipping on a growing number of PCs sold in the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, about 80 percent of PCs shipped with the open source operating system this year will eventually run pirated versions of Windows, industry research firm Gartner estimated in a report issued September 21.

PCs running Linux are growing in popularity in part because they can be loaded with a pirated copy of Windows, according to a study from analyst Gartner.

When it comes to open-source issues, companies need “a single throat to choke if something goes wrong,” said Brad Silverberg of Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm based in Bellevue, Washington. That’s why his startup investment firm, along with Index Ventures, recently gave $3.5 million in Series-A funding to SourceLabs, a startup that provides much-needed support for open-source operating systems.

In a move to add more open-source arrows to its quiver, Linux seller Red Hat has acquired the Netscape server software products of AOL Time Warner, the companies plan to announce Thursday.

IBM Engineering Executive Joins Premier Linux Advocacy Organization; Lab Director Timothy Witham Promoted to Chief Technology Officer

Armed with some of NASA's most sophisticated gear and the space agency's biggest use of open source software and development ever, the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers just received clearance for an extended tour of the Red Planet.

Here's what one university library found when they compared the hardware and software costs.

Last time we introduced you to the simple tools you can use to do typesetting with the Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL. In this concluding look at the topic, we'll look at some more advanced techniques, and at how to get your typeset documents printed.

Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux 4 products, scheduled for release early next year, will support five Indian languages, reflecting the growing importance of the Indian market, according to an executive of the Raleigh, North Carolina-based Linux company.

LSB 2.0 represents the best chance to prevent Linux fragmentation.

OpenBSD supports several authentication methods besides a simple password. Here are some ways you can keep your systems safe.

The NSW government is asking Linux companies seeking appointment to a panel of suppliers to its agencies to address their ability to protect customers from "anti-Linux" litigation.

OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.

More than a year after the German city of Munich declared its landmark intention to abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux, its councilors are finally ready to go ahead with the plan.

We're not sure about this week's effort on behalf of Gartner, because we didn't get it in the first place and it may be that, bless 'em, they've drawn our attention to something they never actually distributed.* Not directly, anyway. The unreleased/dereleased release was headed: "Linux has a fight on its hands in emerging PC markets says Gartner," and we can track it back as far as this report here, which you'll note Gartner wants a cool $795 for the full text of.

The former head of Microsoft Corp's Windows business has given his financial backing to SourceLabs Inc, a new open source support and services firm set up by former executives at BEA Systems Inc.