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Red Hat is on an engineer recruitment spree to boost the support operation for JBoss and drive measured growth for its open source applications business.

SSV is shipping a version of its Linux-based industrial device server with a USB interface. The IGW/920 (Industrial Gateway 920) comes with Linux 2.6 preinstalled, and can be used to remotely control or monitor devices with serial or USB interfaces, SSV says.

Now that we've recovered from the initial surprise of Sony's mylo announcement, we're starting to get a few more details on its functionality.

New patent pending technology provides revolutionary ability to verify site identity with a touch of the mouse

[This probably should be picked apart at Groklaw or PubPat. Software patents affect all software development. -- grouch]

Scali, a provider of Linux clustering software, and Linux Networx have announced a partnership to bundle Scali MPI Connect with Linux Networx Supersystems. Linux Networx supercomputing architects and the Scali performance team are performance-optimizing Linux Supersystems to power popular industry applications and custom codes. Early benchmarks show more than 3X increases in total application throughput in custom codes with greater than 20 percent improvement in industrial applications.

A few years ago, small open source-based companies that dared to challenge Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes in the corporate email and collaboration server marketplace got "David challenges Goliath, isn't that special?" stories written about them. Now, open source messaging and collaboration software providers are a normal part of the IT business landscape. And, according to OpenXchange Executive Vice President of Marketing Strategy Dan Kusnetzky, their products' acceptance is increasing steadily -- and not just among hard-core GNU/Linux and open source devotees.

I own an old, quite customised Thinkpad a21m laptop, which I still use intensively when I’m out of town: with 256 Mb of RAM, a 750 MHz Pentium 3 chip and a 1024x768 screen running off an ATI chip, I can run pretty much all recent GNU/Linux distros around. I also have built a nice living-room warmer based off an Athlon64 X2 3800+ with a big, fat hard disk and more RAM than you can shake a stick at (well, almost). Is there a problem here?

If I tell you that I need to download ten (10) different CD images to install both according to their specificities, maybe you’ll get it.

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) which widely used among software developers as well as computer users was yesterday highlighted as a solution for Buddhist who would prefer to protect the five precepts.

The Ubuntu team announced the release of Ubuntu 6.06.1 Long Term Support (LTS) today, the first maintenance release of "Dapper Drake." The 6.06.1 release contains more than 300 updates since the first release of Dapper Drake.

LXer Feature: 11-Aug-2006

Don Parris' straw poll about replacing Windows with GNU/Linux on a couple of distribution listservs has taken on a whole life of its own in the Ubuntu Users forum. Are people really replacing Windows with GNU/Linux systems? What hardware and software issues prevent people from ditching Windows altogether? Should Microsoft be worried?

This is the first release that has a full graphics 2D implemenation based on Cairo enabled by default. This enables the use of applications like JEdit, FlickrBackup and JFreeChart out of the box.

A software system for hunting down security flaws in open-source software is being used to iron out flaws from Mozilla’s Firefox.

Show-stopping bugs put Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 on hold

Though the ability to collaborate and share information is a critical component of modern IT infrastructures, it is often lacking in healthcare environments, where siloed information is the norm.

Versora's Progression Desktop migration tool gets better with every release. Now on version 2.0, the developers have expanded the capabilities of the software and qualified it with many more operating systems. It's never been easier to transfer your settings from Windows to GNU/Linux.

[Background info on Versora. -- grouch]

Asterisk founder Digium has revieved $13.8 million after a first round of venture capital funding. The significant investment comes from Matrix Partners, a US-based venture capital firm. Digium says that it's planning to use the money to grow open source voice-over-IP solution Asterisk, and launch new offerings to the market.

[This provides additional information, compared to the earlier press release. -- grouch]

Team releases first maintenance release of Dapper Drake which includes more than 300 fixed bugs, security fixs and feature updates

Linux users have their choice of good relational databases. However, some applications require an approach that takes advantage of object-oriented programming. Here's some advice on when and where to use a native object database like db4o instead of a relational database.

[Thanks to NewsForge for pointing to this article. -- grouch]

About 9 per cent of the UK is using the Firefox web browser, according to new research. More than one in four Germans are using the Firefox web browser to access the Internet, the highest rate among major Western European countries and one of the highest in the world, according to data from WebSideStory.

So, if a public sector web site has not been checked for successful Firefox usage, a check ought rapidly to be done - as IE and Firefox display pages differently. Cross-browser compatibility is important.

[Standards, especially the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, should rank higher in importance than individual browser compatibility. Browsers should evolve to meet those standards. -- grouch]

To aid users in the task of label printing, Avery Dennison offers a host of free (to download) software, including a program for the Mac released late last month. Linux still isn't supported, but that's no matter -- there's more than one open source application for Linux that lets you format text for printing on the whole universe of Avery labels, from DVD covers to business cards. Here's a look at them.