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The more, the merrier they say. If you can dual-boot with Boot Camp, why stop there? The people at OnMac.net have managed to get triple-booting working with OS X, Windows XP, and Gentoo Linux. There are instructions at their site, with, of course, the normal caveats.

If you are using Firefox, whether on Windows, Linux or Mac, it's in your best interest to go and get the latest version from Mozilla's site!

Furious activity in Digikam, KmPlot and amaroK. Compile and linking fixes for applications in /trunk with CMake. Multi-platform porting fixes. KSmileTris is removed from /trunk/KDE/kdegames/.

IBM employees using Linux desktops are switching to Red Hat Inc.'s version of the open-source operating system, but the company denied reports that it's planning to dump Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.

SCO's losses continue to mount, but the company executives keep a stiff upper lip while hoping that its case against IBM will eventually profit the small Unix company.

Is"The Attention Economy" just another way for advertisers to skewer eyeballs? And why build an economy around Attention, when Intention is where the money comes from?

The DCC Alliance formally released its first standards-based Debian core to serve as the foundation to its members Linux distributions this week.. DCC Alliance members hope to gain the benefits of LSB 3.0 by making it easier for ISVs and IHVs to support their Linux distributions.

KDE has started a series of interviews highlighting their developers. This one is about András Mantia, a developer from Romania. You can read about him or quickly go to other interviews in the series.

A vendor of OpenFirmware-compliant PowerPC boards and systems is shipping a tiny CPU module that supports Linux, and targets thin clients, home-theater PCs, industrial robotics and control, VoIP and video phones, and security cameras. The Genesi Efika comes with OpenFirmware-compliant boot firmware, and can run Linux.

[ED: This looks neat, but at $300 each when you buy 50 won't be under my Christmas tree. - ralph]

Firefox 1.5 is here. The lightweight browser that's been eating into Internet Explorer's mindshare has gotten even better. We took a look at some of the current extensions supported by Firefox 1.5, some useful, some fun.

[ED: They have found several extensions that I am going to check out. The article is broken into a few too many pages for my taste, though. - ralph]

Sun Microsystems rolled out the "Niagara" T1 eight-core processors and made its case for eco-friendly, cost-effective computing with the new T1000 and T2000 servers that make use of the chip. And in a surprising move, after several hours of positioning the boxes, Sun chairman and CEO, Scott McNealy, announced that Sun would be taking the T1 processor open source. What on earth does that mean?

[ED: There have been several projects working on an open CPU design, but not much has come of them. If this is as good as it sounds, it will be a big step in the long run. - ralph]

If you're not brave enough to switch to Linux, there is an alternative. A live CD will let you try the software without installing a file on your hard disk.

Xbox-Linux Project has announced that they have startd a hacking project against Xbox360 – The Free60 Project, by porting Linux and Darwin onto this brand-new gaming console.

[ED: I dont know if this will be as easy as the old XBoxes were, but it will be interesting to watch. I am looking forward to seeing a lot of first gen XBoxes converted to doing something useful.]

The open-source implementation of .Net has been updated to enable a single instance to run multiple Mono applications using the Apache Web server.

[ED: There is some good information in the article, which is oriented to Windows users. But, it needs editing. It is Mono 1.1.10, not 1.1.1]

Welcome to our issue number 23 of Fedora Weekly News.

Linux is not Windows and, although there are some similarities, you must realise that there may be a few "new ways of doing things" to learn before you can be comfortable in Linux. Linux is an open source clone of UNIX, a secure OS that predates DOS and Windows and is designed for multiple users. The items in the following list generally apply to any UNIX-based *nix system, such as Linux and the various BSD's. For the purposes of this article, assume that it's all Linux.

I recently took a briefing from a company called OpenMFG, with the distinct hope that my skepticism about the role of open source in the ERP market would be dashed.

this early-stage vendor purports to have the first open source ERP product on the market. It's definitely an ERP product, albeit one that is considerably less functional than many. But when you dig under the covers, the reality is that OpenMFG's so-called open source process is not much different than any other vendor's software development process. OpenMFG was built, to give them credit, on top of a healthy assortment of open source tools. But the initial development was done by OpenMFG employees, and the upgrade and enhancement process, while purporting to be open source, is really just a clever modification of the way software has always been enhanced.

Linux has moved closer to maturity as a robust datacentre platform, with the release of a major refresh of the kernel software.
The latest version of the Linux kernel - kernel 2.6.14 - which is at the core of many enterprise Linux products, is designed to make it a stronger alternative to the Windows operating system.

CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system.

The final release version of FireFox 1.5 is expected today. New features in version 1.5 includes support for SVG, Canvas, CSS3 Columns, Javascript 1.6;