Federal IT Managers Increasingly Considering Linux, Jan 12, 2006

An increasing number of federal IT systems are being migrated from proprietary Unix systems to open-source Linux systems and desktops in order to gain quicker upgrades, platform flexibility, increased security and several other advantages, a trio of IT experts concluded Monday during an online panel discussion.

Microsoft is set to launch a new software-marketing campaign aimed at persuading Linux and Unix users to migrate to Windows.

Grisoft's Antivirus product AVG is being made available free to Linux home users, according to its Australian distributor Avalanche Technology Group.

Novell has decided to release the source code for its Linux security offering, AppArmor.

Have fears of a resurgence of communism led the DoJ to suspect GNU/Linux communities of having anti-capitalistic agendas? If so, have they allowed Microsoft to engage in anti-trust to stop Free Software?

Due to a marked increase of computers in Nepal, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) -- the country's principal archive of books and periodicals in Nepali -- has launched a beta version of NepaLinux, a Debian-based Linux distribution localized in Nepali, the language spoken by more than 30 million South Asian people.

When the Mars rovers blasted into space to begin a 60-million mile journey to the Red Planet, Linux was there to help NASA get them off the ground.

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