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No longer merely on its way up, the platform now boasts converts from governments to small and large businesses—and it's only getting bigger.

Open source fan and South Australian upper house MP Ian Gilfillan has blasted his own parliament's decision to stick with Microsoft for its web site redevelopment, accusing the State Government of hiding behind "pious platitudes" on software choice.

Red Flag Desktop will ship with the award-winning Opera browser, which is focused on user experience. The program is known for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other Internet browsers. Opera also includes an e-mail client and IRC-compatible chat.

South Australian upper house MP Ian Gilfillan today chastised his fellow members for choosing to stick with Microsoft software for their web site and intranet projects. "There is .. a growth of open source content management systems, used to manage internet and intranet content, systems like MySource, Zope and PostNuke," he told Parliament this afternoon.

Happy Thanksgiving! NewsForge will be on a reduced posting schedule from today through the rest of the weekend. We'll be back to business as usual on Monday. If you are someplace where Thanksgiving is celebrated, we hope you enjoy the holiday. If not, we'll enjoy it for you, and later you can enjoy some of your holidays for us while we work. :)

The latest survey from OneStat.com shows what was expected. Firefox is gaining on Internet Explorer and pretty rapidly. As per the reports, Mozilla Foundation has taken a 7.4% market share gaining more than 5% since May. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has dropped down to 88.9%

Long-time Microsoft partner Intel Corp. is working to help Asian PC manufacturers install Linux on new machines rolling off the assembly lines.

A South African organisation has produced what it claims is the first television series dedicated to promoting open-source software

The main SCO Group web site (sco.com) has been intermittently accessible on Tuesday and Wednesday, having been down on Monday, displaying characteristic patterns seen during a protracted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Several related domains have also been off - and on-line over the last 72 hours.

VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. today announced it will release 'VA Directory', a new LDAP directory service server software for large-scale enterprise systems. Advance sales of the VA Directory solution will begin immediately, while delivery and full customer support for the system will be available from January, 2005.

This is a story about AMD's Opteron but some interesting Linux information can be gleamed from it. Look at the Volume growth vs. Value growth below and you can see that Linux is not only growing very fast but moving up the food chain. Windows is increasingly relegated to the low end.

This is a fairy tale, a dream I had last night. Any similarity between real kingdoms, and real kings, and real journalists, is purely coincidental. Obviously the things depicted here could never happen in real life, or in real journalism. We are much too fair and balanced for that.

In the aftermath of our last interview with Tom Lord, regardless of personalities, it became apparent that the idea of decentralizing CVS is a big deal. Many mentioned darcs as an alternative to Arch. Mark Strosberg has interviewed project head-hancho David Roundy about darcs, his "theory of patches", what's next, and on using Haskell for the project.

I recently downloaded and took a closer look at Novell Linux Desktop 9. While it is certainly aimed at the corporate environment, it's also somewhat suitable for home users. Read our review to find out what experiences I had with it and whether or not it might be right for you.

A senior Austrian politician has told the Austrian Minister of Commerce and Industry that the draft directive on software patents could cause 'lasting damage' to small and medium-sized IT companies

Welcome to this year's 46th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. In an interview Richard Stallman explained why it is important in terms of freedom and cooperation to have schools use Free Software. VA Linux Systems Japan recently announced the release of VA Balance, a load balancing system, based on UltraMonkey and Debian GNU/Linux.

Intel has released its Quick Start Kit for Linux, stepping up support for Asian system integrators that offer Linux-based desktop PCs.

Does the open source community embrace any group that chooses to develop and distribute code freely? If so, then the folks at OpenNETCF.org must be part of that open source community, even though they are all loyal Windows users.

Two annoyances from the original article resolved.

ActiveGrid is a new open source software company that hopes to capitalize on an idea it calls "commercial open source." It has already convinced a couple of venture capitalists to front $3 million to develop a tool called the Grid Application Server.