Controversy over Reporting in SCO Case, Oct 26, 2004

A controversy has emerged over a story written by Maureen O'Gara in Linux Business Week dealing with the SCO vs. IBM case.

A low key ceremony in the office of the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, on Wednesday, saw the launch of a programme anchored by the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT), where 107 computer training institutes spread across all 14 districts of Kerala have been beefed up as `Linux Technology Extension (LiTE) centres.'

Bristol City Council could begin one of the UK's biggest roll-outs of open source desktop applications if a proposal to adopt Star Office is adopted at a council meeting next month.

Please note that this update does not produce a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 but only adds a few updated packages to it.

MPs and security experts are attacking the government for its decision to use Windows 2000 on its submarines

A bug in version 2.6 of the Linux kernel allows remote users to crash systems running SuSE's latest enterprise and consumer software

Not everyone is convinced that the age of desktop Linux is just around the corner, but Rex says it's coming.

Melbourne firm Cybersource has taken the idea of a read-only device to its logical conclusion and come up with what it calls a Safe Internet Computer, one that runs off a CD and is immune to worms, spyware and all the other filth that inhabits the internet these days.

Israeli software company StartCom has released an updated version of its StartCom MultiMedia Edition Linux distribution, which is based on Red Hat's Linux software.

And if there is anything I've learnt from Linux, it's that projects have a life of their own, and you should _not_ try to enforce your "vision" too strongly on them.

Iams said IBM was taking the correct approach with centers like the one in Beijing, as it represents a way to tap into emerging markets where open source has taken root much faster than in North American markets.

The Mozilla Foundation expects one in 10 Internet users to be browsing using Firefox within the next year

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