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Red Hat is going to sink about $1.7 million in a new open source R&D center in Brno in the Czech Republic, where Sun, Microsoft and Skype also have R&D centers. Apparently it will benefit from the favorable treatment the country now accords R&D-related expenses. The center, located near the second-largest Czech university's Faculty of Informatics, should be fully operational early this year and employ 200 Linux developers.

Need to connect an alphanumeric LCD display panel to your PC-based robot? Till Harbaum has created LCD2USB for just that purpose. It's a combination of Open Hardware and Free Software that allows you to cotrol HD44780 type LCD displays from the USB port of any Linux-based motherboard.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: NEPOMUK integration, and a new "browser" interface added to Akonadi.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: NEPOMUK integration, and a new "browser" interface added to Akonadi.

SCALE has announced the schedule for theOpen Source Health Care Summit. Speakers will include Fred Trotter (GPL Medicine), Scott Shreeve, Eishay Smith (IBM), and Gerald Bortis (Mirth Project). The Open Source Health Care Summit will be held on Feb 9, 2007 as part of SCALE 5x.

Linux is just one application in the vast open source ecosystem that companies are increasingly turning to for a lower-cost alternative to many of their IT needs

Het is alweer een tijdje geleden dat de Linux Kernel in onze meuktracker voorbij kwam, maar gelukkig hebben de ontwikkelaars onlangs versie 2.6.19.2 uitgebracht die we bij deze dus kunnen vermelden.

[Mixed Dutch and English - dcparris]

Multi-core development platform provider RapidMind and Linux package provider Terra Soft have announced a new partnership to help developers create applications for the PlayStation 3 running Yellow Dog Linux and other Cell-based hardware.

I'm writing this from CES 2007— the latest and greatest Consumer Electronics Show, where 140,000 attendees crowd 2,700 exhibits packed into 1,660,000 square feet of space in more halls and hotels than I'll bother to count. There's a lot of noise here, and a certain amount of signal; though the ratio of the former to the latter is no less lopsided than it always is. Everybody's not only showing their good sides, but paying millions to crow about it through mass quantities of advertising and PR.

When obstacles such as poverty, lack of education or disabilities keep people from finding jobs, Goodwill is there to help. We do that by selling your donations of clothing and household goods in local Goodwill stores and using the revenue to fund our job-training programs in your community. Last year, more than 846,000 people benefited from Goodwill's career services - we helped someone find a job every 57 seconds of every business day.

Friday, January 12, 2007: CMS Computers Ltd. is going to offer a linux training module through CMS Institute's CMS Certified Network Specialist networking-based infrastructure management programme to youth seeking jobs in the ITeS industry. Together, Red Hat and CMS aim to certify a thousand students in 2007.

News Analysis: Novell claims that SCO is in deep financial trouble, but is the Unix company really that badly off? (Linux-Watch)

Review: Canonical's 'Edgy Eft' provides excellent management tools and a broad app catalog; Novell's new OpenSUSE offers GUI-friendly and high-end features.

Maybe cats and dogs can live together, after all. Sources close to the matter revealed today that the Eclipse Foundation has joined the Java Community Process. (Linux-Watch)

News Analysis: The new and improved CrossOver brings even more Windows programs—including games—to Linux and now Intel-based Macs as well. (DesktopLinux)

I use three operating systems on a daily basis: MacOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. The Mac is my main desktop; I have a lot of Terminal windows open on the FreeBSD box; and I use Windows for the programs and websites that just don't run on anything else.

AOL has announced plans to enter the portable media player business with a Haier-manufactured player that looks like it was put together by the company's East German industrial design division, and then forged from plate iron in a Soviet-era smelting factory -- in fact, this product is the fruition of AOL's acquisition of the zany WildSeed guys a while back.

Australia's biggest Linux conference will kick off next week and the organiser has promised that attendees will get a lesson in how to control and monitor everyday objects -- including a toilet flush -- using the open source operating system.

It almost seems like you can't swing a programmer around without hitting another open source project. I spent some time with Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale yesterday morning, and between an extensive Second Life demo and philosophical ruminations on Las Vegas architecture, he said that they would be announcing that the source code to the Second Life client would be released to the public under the GNU General Public License version 2. This is your chance to build that gravity inverter you've been dreaming of.

Opera Software may well be putting its browser users at risk by not properly disclosing security vulnerabilities to vulnerable users.