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Linux and open-source software has immediate solutions for the war on terror.

While the usual server news was plentiful at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco last week, a few announcements were made of new laptops that let users get personal with the Linux kernel.

Axel Hecht has written a weblog post explaining what exactly Mozilla Europe does. The non-profit Mozilla Europe group launched earlier this year.

A number of Chinese software companies have joined forces with overseas vendors such as IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp, and Novell Inc. to form the China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance, China's first open-source software organization, several Chinese media reported Wednesday.

Recognizing China as one of the "fastest-growing markets in the world," the Open Source Development Lab (ODSL) announced today that it is establishing a local office in Beijing. According to the Linux advocacy group, Chinese IT research firm CCID Consulting estimates that the Linux server software market in China will explode at a compound annual growth rate of 49.3 percent over the next five years.

We Linux users have probably gotten a collective total of at least 32 trillion pieces of spam email trying to sell us Windows warez. But until now, we were always frozen out of these bargains. Unless we ran CrossOver Office, what did we need with a pirated copy of Photoshop or Microsoft Office? (Not only that, most of us use free, open source alternatives anyway.) But now we have arrived. There is finally enough commercial software for Linux that the pirates and warez spammers want our business, too.

Snom has released a Linux-based VoIP phone for small- and medium-sized enterprises. The "high-end affordable" Snom 220 offers international language support, including Asian languages, and many advanced features such as 16-bit audio, call waiting indication, call intrusion, call divert, call park, call pick-up, music-on-hold, and more.

One of the defining characteristics of Unix is modularity - the operating system shell provides a set of small and flexible utilities (such as grep, sed and awk) that can be “glued� together to perform more complex tasks.

Jobs site dice.com recently reported that demand for Linux professionals is growing. In July, the site had 2,243 listings requesting Linux skills, a 190% increase since June 2003. If your company is eager to exploit the benefits of the open-source operating system, certification is one way to make sure your workers have the skills they need.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- SpectSoft, creator of open-source Linux high-end digital disk drive recorder (DDR) software, and Panasas, maker of Linux cluster file servers, joined forces at the 31st annual SIGGRAPH conference this week to demonstrate high-performance Linux systems for the digital video and effects industries. This is Panasas's first demonstration of a system for this application, while SpectSoft, a California-based start-up, announced version 1.2 of their application, RaveHD for Linux, with an enhanced user interface.

For the third interview in our series previewing aKademy we approached Waldo Bastian, whose most recent major project has been the Kiosk framework. Tom Chance and Fabrice Mous talked to him about Kiosk, the new Kiosk Admin Tool, Linux on the corporate desktop and what we can expect from his talk at aKademy. Don't miss the previous interviews with Matthias Ettrich and Nils Magnus.

Dear Rob Enderle, I want to thank you, a supposedly independent IT analyst, for the keynote speech you gave recently at the SCO Forum. It certainly explains a lot of things about where you are coming from: your bias toward the Microsoft and SCO alliance, for one thing; your bias against Linux and free software for another. No longer do any of us -- at Groklaw or anywhere else -- need to puzzle over your motivations. You've made them extraordinarily clear.

This whitepaper from TimeSys discusses how graphical tools can assist embedded Linux developers in creating filesystems and managing application packages and library dependencies. It uses TimeSys's TimeStorm tools to illustrate several points, but is largely vendor neutral in its explanation of concepts fundamental to embedded Linux development.

The coolest and most up-and-coming products and projects usually can be found in the .org pavilion.