Red Hat and Novell salivate as Navy learns to count servers, Jun 18, 2005

Lick your chops, Red Hat and Novell, because the owner of the world's second largest network is looking to standardize on one flavor of Linux.

A computer-science professor has combined a $99 Linux single-board-computer, called Gumstix because it's roughly the size of a stick of chewing gum, with a motor and propeller and sent the package aloft, maintaining control via a wireless LAN connection.

Linus Torvalds' brainchild is full of "cheap little hacks", says the founder of OpenBSD

Inveneo, a San Francisco non-profit, together with ActionAid, an international agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide, have installed their first rugged Linux desktop systems in western Uganda. The systems run Linux and KDE desktops, and also include the OpenOffice.org productivity suite.

Microsoft's anti-LAMP strategy is to heap features into its low-end products and to build a comprehensive set of tools--spanning development to management--in the hopes of making Windows Server more attractive.

The Shuttleworth-backed tuXlabs programme and the Schools Linux User Group volunteers yesterday installed 10 Linux-based laboratories in schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. What makes this particularly notable isthat the installations were done by volunteers and they completed the task before midday.

The New South Wales government expects to finalise contract negotiations with the majority of the companies nominated for its Linux and open-source software procurement panel by the end of July, the Department of Commerce said.

2.6.12 has been released today.
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