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Opera reports that a version of its web browser will be used in a line of extremely inexpensive Linux-based set-top boxes that will be marketed directly to individuals in rural areas of China. The boxes will enable the Chinese government to deliver remote education programs to citizens who may not otherwise have access to education, Opera says.

Getting expensive high-end enterprise software for nothing, and how to decide whether it's worth it.

Two disparate charities have successfully implemented open source software, saving money and creating happier users in the process. Jane Dudman looks at how open source can give smaller organisations greater control at minimum expense

Parvus will demonstrate a new Linux-ready in-vehicle computer on June 13, at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Rail Conference in New York City. The DuraCOR 1100 is a rugged, Intel Celeron-based "vehicle logic unit" (VLU) that targets "information-level applications" in road and rail transit vehicles.

Q&A: The maker of code sleuthing technology for open-source applications sees the market growing swiftly as more enterprises adopt open-source technology.

Software companies, big and small, have failed to deliver on the promise to make life easier for users, said the 21-year-old inventor of the Firefox Internet browser during a speech today at the City Club of Cleveland.

KDE made two security announcements today, the KDM Symlink Vulnerability is a potential local exploit on systems using KDM as their login manager. Artswrapper return value checking vulnerability affects Linux 2.6 systems that have artswrapper installed SUID root. A separate update was made for the wv2 library used in KWord to import MS Word files to fix a boundary check error. Your distribution should have updates for these issues.

“If I chose a Windows platform, I would also have to buy different packages and a licence for every single thing. It becomes very expensive.”

He added, “We have been bowled over by how reliable and stable it is. We are now going to roll out more applications based on this Linux framework.”

"Open source is more secure. Period," Raimund Genes, chief technical officer for anti-malware at Trend, told ZDNet UK. "More people control the codebase, they can react immediately to vulnerabilties, and open source doesn't have so much of a problem with legacy code because of the number of distributions."

[Just don't get smug and complacent. -- grouch]

The administration of the Berlin Senate (the governement of the German federal state Berlin) has voiced its opposition to a complete migration of the authority's computers to Linux. It thus opposes the Berlin Parliament, which called for a two-phase migration of servers and workstations to Open Sources systems.

A U.S. team and several Iraqi agencies are creating an open source portal, which Iraqi institutions will own, operate and customize. Sun and the Iraqi Virtual Science Library team are equipping the Iraqi partners with hardware, software and IT training so that they can take control of the system.

Arcom is shipping an embedded Linux development kit targeting deeply embedded, remote, or unattended installations demanding "reasonable" processing power.

[Includes a photo of the kit that the earlier press release did not. -- grouch]

Novell's current beta version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 - set for general availability next month - has some believing it will be the strongest competitor to the Windows platform in years. And its price point that will make more than a few eyes pop.

[Check out the link to the text version, too, which includes such things as:

"Arguably, the biggest factor in completing a successful installation comes in the form of driver support. That turned out to be a challenge with Vista.

"With SUSE Linux, most drivers were included on the installation CD or readily available during the install.

"In taking a look at the major features, one quickly sees that SUSE Linux is more than a match for Vista."

-- grouch]

Server maker Unisys, which was perhaps the earliest and staunchest supporter of Windows in the data center, has been advocating Linux on its ES7000 platforms for nearly two years now and is aggressively embracing open source software outside of the operating system. It is, in many ways, a lot easier to target Unix platforms, as Unisys has been doing, with a Linux stack than a Windows stack, which is why Unisys should have been supporting Linux for many more years than it has.

Uversa is offering the following training dates for ourClearHealth comprehensive course at our Phoenix offices throughout the summer: June 14-16, July 12-14, and August 16-18. Only one slot remains for open for the June dates and a handful for June& July. LMN readers receive a 10% discount.

Three computer industry leaders in Korea have joined the Free Standards Group (FSG), with plans to contribute to the Linux Standards Base (LSB). New silver-level FSG inductees include government-sponsored nonprofits KIPA (Korean IT Industry Promotion) and ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), along with software provider Haansoft.

  LXer Feature: 14-Jun-06

Steven Titch, a Senior Fellow at the Heartland Institute, first drew my attention when I ran across an article he wrote, in which he made so many misleading statements, I called into question his abilities as a researcher. Two blog posts later, Titch still fails to address facts, to present any evidence in support of his arguments, to make any arguments relevant to the issue at hand, contradicts himself... Need I go on? One wonders if he is even in the same ball park.

Microsoft executives will announce a software donation today that would give students in Massachusetts universities and high schools some of the latest technology, including the ability to write their own software and build websites.

[Aren't there laws against trying to get students addicted? Isn't this the same Boston Globe which smeared Peter Quinn? Isn't this the same Microsoft who has historically threatened, squeezed, and even lied to schools? By the way, any GNU/Linux distribution permits students to "write their own software and build websites" without all the auditing, licensing, and viral problems associated with Microsoft. -- grouch]

Click Sentinel, a commercial antifraud application that's been on sale for more than a year, has just been converted to a free-software model. In addition, the new 2.0 version runs on your own machine, keeping your data private, whereas the older version required a remote server.

[While it claims to be "totally free", I couldn't find any way to download without registering. -- grouch]

The Department of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) will soon be launching the next desktop and server versions of the Bayanihan Linux operating system.