Do-It-Yourself Robots with Linux, Aug 28, 2006

Linux-based robots are tricky to create, but Michael Surran's Robotics class found out it can be done.

... half of small and medium-sized businesses say they use little to no open source software, according to a survey conducted by InformationWeek and sister publication Network Computing of 441 companies with 100 to 5,000 employees.

Industrial camera maker Prosilica has released an x86- and PowerPC-Linux SDK (software development kit) for use in communicating with its line of Ethernet cameras.

Open-source advocate Eric Raymond on winning over the iPod generation, and why now is the time for Linux advocates to gun for Microsoft on the desktop.

An update to the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution this week left some users without a way to launch the usual graphical interface and stranded them with just a command line to run their computer.

Developers from the Debian, Ubuntu, and Sword Projects have been working since 2005 on Ichthux, a GNU/Linux distribution aimed at Christians and ministries.

2.6.18-rc5 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

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