Small box 'to end digital divide', Apr 30, 2005

The sub-£100 box, called Nivo, runs on open-source software and is known as a "thin client". Several can be linked up to a central "brain", or server.

Ease of use and no cost put the open source PHP Web scripting language on the map for developers. Now, the scalability and XML and Web services support of recently released PHP 5.0 puts it on the enterprise map, says Doron Gerstel, CEO of Zend Technologies, a PHP technologies services company.

Microsoft Corp. has extended an olive branch to the open-source community, calling for a sit-down to discuss how the software giant can better work with the open-source world.

Open-source software group Mozilla.org said Friday that its Firefox Web browser has been downloaded 50 million times since its release in November.

Making a single recommendation for an easy-to-use version of Linux is not as easy a proposition as it may sound. There are a large number of good choices. I will recommend some that I have found to be useful from first-hand experience. Assuming that you are really looking for desktop operating systems, here are the solutions I would recommend:

Please for the Love Of All Who Use Linux...develop for us a comparable program to Intuit Quicken/Quickbooks. I can honestly name 40 people who would drop their Microsoft operating system tomorrow if you could provide such a tool.

2.6.11.8 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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