Should you do Ubuntu?, Oct 14, 2004

Ubuntu Linux is a new Debian-based distro sponsored by Canonical Ltd. I spent a week using Ubuntu and came away impressed, despite some of its obvious teething pains.

Local government offices in the French capital will not abandon Microsoft software overnight but instead gradually phase in more open-source programs, Paris City Hall said.

Novell said the Open Enterprise Server (OES), which combines open source and commercial networking platforms, will begin shipping in February 2005 after four months of beta testing.

KDE Project Ships First Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop

GNOME is nice, KDE is fine and the forthcoming Looking Glass may be wonderful, but the best Unix desktop is the one in the Macintosh.

New Breed Software has announced the immediate availability of major update to its children's art and drawing program, TuxPaint.

Sun Microsystems has quietly released a version of its Java Desktop System software based on Solaris, a new step in the company's plan to try to transfer some of Linux's glory to its own operating system.

The French Atomic Energy Commission announced Monday that it plans to develop software based on the Linux operating system in cooperation with the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology

Linspire announced Mexico's Centel, S.A. de C.V. will distribute the Spanish language version of the its desktop Linux, LinspireEspaņol in that country.

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