When Everyone Wins, Feb 14, 2006

If you are a LUG and are contemplating holding a regional show, such as SCALE, the Ohio LinuxFest, or NorthwestFest, I urge you to examine the benefits of these shows and others like them. I believe in the long run they will be very advantageous for the Linux operating system.

After nearly a decade of slowly building a top-notch reputation for technological innovation, Utah's Linux Networx is laying claim to the supercomputing big time.

After years of putting up with Microsoft's anti-Linux half-truths in its Get-the-FUD campaign, Linux supporters are finally striking back.

"We have a saying in the Linux space, which is actually from Mahatma Gandhi: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win'. I think that Microsoft has already gone through the ignoring and the laughing stage. They are fighting us and they know that the next stage is either win or lose."

Server and workstation vendor Silicon Graphics Inc has warned that it may have to seek protection under the bankruptcy laws if it has a significant shortfall on the latest restructuring plan or fails to find someone to buy the company or make a significant investment in it.

Those looking to save money on expensive Windows software can try their DVB-T luck with the Linux operating system.

Google and CodeWeavers Inc. are working together to bring Google's popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following it to the Linux desktop, sources say.

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