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My family and I were glued to the local TV weather reports as Hurricane Charley made its way up the Florida peninsula past our Orlando home last August. I was impressed with the FasTrac Millennium and Vipir radar systems the WKMG forecasters were using and resolved that I'd find out about them after the bad weather had passed. Surely there was a Linux box or two in there somewhere, I thought, and I was right; Millennium and Vipir don't run on Linux, but an innovative application called GestureStorm does.

Well, the rumors first published by the New York Times a few days ago turned out to be true. IBM said late Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its personal computer division to China-based Lenovo and accept a minority stake in its former rival valued at $1.75 billion.

Want a quick and easy introduction to Linux? Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers two reading suggestions that will help get you started.

Thunderbird 1.0 is officially out and we've got the goods! Head over to OSDir.com to have a look at this much anticipated release in our Thunderbird 1.0 Screenshot tour. Thunderbird 1.0 is an open source application not only for Linux but Mac and Windows users as well. We're mixing it up a bit by showing this application running on Windows XP.

This whitepaper from TimeSys discusses Carrier Grade Linux (CGL), and changes in the CGL 2.0 requirements document released last fall. It also discusses CGL 2.0's self-registration process for vendor compliance, which TimeSys completed first, among CGL vendors. Enjoy . . . !

BEA Systems said it will release a test version of its latest WebLogic Server software later this month, and the company also detailed product delivery plans for next year.

Welcome to this year's 48th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Frank Ronneburg has updated his book about Debian to cover the upcoming release of sarge and will present it on December 14th in Berlin, Germany. Europcar has switched 1,500 computers in branch offices to Debian based thin clients, and is now moving 3,500 more machines in headquarters to GNU/Linux.

A new set of offerings formed with the expansion of the IBM Virtualization Innovation Center for Hardware has a distinct Linux flavor, including an online "how to" guide for porting from Windows, Unix or Linux to Linux on Power5.

The first open-source integrated development environment (IDE) from Texas Instruments is aimed at its MSP430 family of low power microcontrollers. Based on the Eclipse open source platform...

This guest editorial by Linux consultant Binh Nguyen is an exercise in "tough love." Nguyen points out key design attributes of Debian that make it one of the strongest and most versatile Linux offerings available. At the same time, he notes several important areas where Debian falls flat. Yet, with a few simple improvements and a more welcoming attitude to new users, Nguyen argues, Debian could turn into the most popular Linux distro around.

Most Linux computer servers used in the enterprise are running on dual processors, reflecting a transition in the marketplace for the open-source operating system toward heavier enterprise workloads, a research firm said Monday.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.0 will now support Bangla. Scheduled for release in February 2005, the beta version was demonstrated today at the Infocom 2004, in Kolkata.

A public meeting on software patents is to be held next week, but various high-profile anti-patent campaigners seem to have fallen off the guest list

The next time you have a hankerin' to install a new batch of Debian machines, make it easy on yourself and use FAI (Fully Automatic Installation). FAI is a versatile, intelligent installer for performing mass unattended Debian installations. Use it to install clusters, server farms, classroom computer labs, or new LANs.

This week a group of free and open source software developers from around Africa are gathered at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) for the first FLOSS Developer Road Show in Africa. The roadshow is being organised by the CSIR and Aspiration Tech with funding from the Open Society Institute. The roadshow is being hosted by the Free Software Innovation Unit (FSIU) at UWC. The roadshow runs until the end of this week.

De Bortoli Wines is staging a nationwide rollout of Linux terminal replacements and plans to move over to new Linux desktops by the end of 2005. De Bortoli's IT Manager Bill Robertson said there were several reasons for moving much of its application base to open source software, citing ease of deployment, portability, adaptability, avoiding vendor lock-in issues, flexibility and cost savings as key factors.

Sales of servers using Linux will grow faster than the overall market at least through 2008, when customers will spend $9.1 billion for machines using the open-source operating system, market researcher IDC forecast Monday.

The next time someone asks you how to introduce open source into an organization, suggest this book as a starting point.

Stanford University sophomore Blake Ross is the lead architect of the Firefox browser, which hit its long-anticipated 1.0 release in November. In its long preview release stage, Firefox—part of the Mozilla family of open source software—already ate into the dominant market share of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Ross discussed the browser and its implications with Redmond magazine Managing Editor Keith Ward.

Computer geeks have helped make Martin Roesch's kitchen-table startup a $100 million outfit. His secret ingredient: A dash of humility.