SimplyMEPIS makes final RC available for download, Dec 16, 2005

Following some major and minor changes, SimplyMEPIS Wednesday made available another release candidate, version 3.4-2 rc1. The latest Firefox 1.5 has been pulled in from Debian unstable, SimpleMEPIS creator and lead developer Warren Woodford said. "Barring unforeseen problems, we are ready to release SimplyMEPIS 3.4 in one week," he said.

Despite having a strong feature set and excellent performance and stability, PostgreSQL lags significantly behind MySQL in one key area: Many more open source projects support MySQL than PostgreSQL.

Australian companies are not only lagging behind the United States and Asia when deploying Linux and open source software (OSS), they are also reluctant to contribute developer time back into the OSS community, according to a report by analyst group Forrester.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has voiced cautious optimism that its latest initiative could finally herald a mass-market for Linux on the desktop.

With the popularity of Linux clusters booming, IBM has opened up the source code to its General Parallel File System (GPFS), so it can run on other vendors' hardware.

For server vendors such as Dell, Linux is a good thing because it lowers acquisition costs for customers. It's easier for a customer to commit to deploying a new server when software license fees are removed from the equation.

Following the release of KDE 3.5, the Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the release of Ark Linux 2005.2. Ark Linux is a Linux distribution designed especially for desktop use.

... according to CEO François Bancilhon, Mandriva is prepared to take its product line straight to Red Hat and Novell, in whatever arena the US companies care to compete--including, Bancilhon emphasized, right in their back yard.

I doubt Microsoft will do the right thing. After all, it's in their best financial interest to maintain a monopoly even if it isn't in anyone else's interests.

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