Penguin not taking flight down under, Jan 18, 2006

Adoption of open source software is slow in the Australasian region according to a report from analyst firm Forrester.

Chinese Linux products will be certified by a central lab that has signed up to the Linux Standards Base

A push is under way to endow Linux with a virtual partitioning technology used by rival operating systems to make servers more efficient.

Motorola plans to acquire Kreatel Communications, a Swedish developer of television set-top boxes that use Linux and Internet Protocol-based services, the company said Tuesday.

Novell has promised to support the XML-based OpenDocument file format in its current and future products.

Fedora Core 5 is getting closer and closer to its official release date, March 15, and this Monday, the Fedora Project showed the way by announcing its second beta release of the Fedora Core 5.

Hewlett-Packard is considering selling services designed to ease customer participation in the open-source programming community, the company's new open-source boss said.

The first public draft of GPL Version 3 addresses intellectual property issues and speaks out against DRM.

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