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The Puppy Linux project team, which debuted its v2.0 on June 1, has released a followup version that replaces Mozilla's SeaMonkey suite of web applications with Opera 9.0 Beta 2, founder and chief evangelist Barry Kauler said June 8 in his weblog.

The VectorLinux project team June 9 released the final version of the live CD edition of VectorLinux 5.1, featuring a 2.6.11.7 kernel and a choice of desktop environments.

Guardian Digital released v3.0.7 of EnGarde Secure Linux on June 6, featuring a 2.6.12 kernel, several bug fixes, feature enhancements to the Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy, and several updated application packages, project spokesman Ryan W. Maple said.

In the last of a three-part analytical series, Canonical CEO and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth speaks with The 451 Group on the different approaches and business models of Canonical and Red Hat.

Apple continues to anger consumers overseas with its restrictions on music downloading. But it's not the only company drawing fire
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A group called the Free Software Foundation has planned June 10 protests for seven Apple retail stores in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle.

What the Constitution says is that copyright law and patent law are optional.... They are not rights that their holders are entitled to; they are artificial privileges that we might, or might not, want to hand out to encourage people to do what we find useful.

Expand Your SME’s VoIP Telecommunications Infrastructure

WS02 announces its first software, Tungsten, and a key investor.

IDG World Expo announced the exhibitor and keynote speaker line-ups for this summer's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, themed "Fifteen Years of Breaking the Rules" and scheduled for Aug. 14-17, 2006 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Intervideo is demonstrating mobile digital TV (DTV) technology that supports Linux devices this week, at Computex in Taipei.

Vision Objects is shipping a mobile and embedded device version of its handwriting recognition SDK (software development kit).

At an event honoring top technology innovations from Massachusetts companies in Boston June 7, Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab and chairman of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, was inducted into the MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) Innovation Hall of Fame.

I am by no means a database wizard. I know a bit of SQL, but primarily my interaction with databases is secondhand, through either PHP or desktop applications that work on top of MySQL or PostgreSQL. But like a lot of you, I occasionally need to build a small database for my own private record-keeping -- and for that, I recommend Glom.

You can find plenty of information online about building heterogeneous networks involving Windows, but relatively little about connecting Macs with Linux PCs in a home or small office network. Mac OS X's Unix base, however, means there are plenty of good options for networking a Mac with a Linux PC, despite the relative lack of documentation. In this article, I'll discuss how to set up Mac-Linux printer and file sharing using NFS and SSH.

Google has taken the wraps off of another couple of tasty tidbits, and while one is more or less old hat, the other one is something that can really help major geeks like myself.

Explore Geronimo's support for clustering in this installment, Part 2, of this five-part series. Learn to build up the cluster nodes and test communication among other nodes and the cluster manager Web service we introduced in Part 1. Then you'll deploy and test the current state of the application on Geronimo.

After six months, the Libranet community has learned that its wait for the revival of the distribution was futile. Tal Danzig, Libranet's owner and chief developer, has announced that he is discontinuing the development of Libranet.

The GNOME community has recently started a discussion on the adoption of a code of conduct for community members. While a number of people clearly think that such a code makes sense, others are just as clearly uncomfortable with the idea. The free software community is traditionally an open and unregulated group.

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Open source is alive and well in South Africa's biggest township, Soweto. Bongani Hlope carries the flag high, planning a Tsotsitaal translation for Linux to make it more accessible for his neighbors.

But Hugo Spowers has other ideas. He believes that an open-source approach to vehicle design is the only way to knock humanity off its current, resource-intensive, car-based transportation treadmill.

[The success of FOSS reduces skepticism in open development outside of software. -- grouch]