$299 Linux PC hits US shelves, Jul 07, 2005

Systemax has unveiled its first desktop PC pre-installed with desktop Linux. The budget model is selling in the US for $299.

Start-up SourceLabs has launched a Web site that draws on the latest collaboration and syndication tools to create a sort of owner's manual for open-source software.

Opera, the Norwegian vendor of the web browser of the same name, and Norwegian software firm Trolltech, the developer of the C++ framework Qt for the KDE Unix/Linux desktop among others things, have entered into a strategic partnership.

The threat of legal action has stifled several open source efforts that allowed interoperability between Linux-based computers and Plextor DVD burners.

The UK government's school computing agency, Becta, has said schools could save costs by switching to what is known as open source software.

Novell Inc.'s SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 desktop gives not only other leading Linux desktop distributions like Xandros a run for their money, but also enterprise desktops such as Windows XP Pro.

"Given the growing popularity of Linux in those areas, Sun must create workable and significant open source offerings or risk further marginalization..."

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