Let the Browser Wars begin, Oct 17, 2006

Depending on whose numbers you believe, Firefox has been continuing to erode IE's (Internet Explorer's) lead.

An East German company will soon begin selling an IP-PBX setup based on a Mac Mini running Linux. 4S Newcom's iBlue package comes with an iPod Shuffle that acts as a boot device for the Mac Mini, plus five Linux-based VoIP phones.

It has proven to be the year of living dangerously, if you are using a computer that's attached too the Internet - not so much if you're using a Linux-based machine.

The European Commission is to spend €4m on an open source observatory and repository (Osor) to span the member states and enable them to share information across the public sector.

The EU antitrust office refused to back Microsoft's optimism that European concerns had been met. "The jury is out," said EU spokesman Jonathan Todd on Friday. "It is up to Microsoft to shoulder its own responsibility to ensure full compliance with competition rules."

Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we decided were important enough to fix.

Was it because of a bad strategy? Was its release cycle too long? Was it the controversy over Gael Duval being fired? Or was it just the lack of quality in its latest releases? Whatever it was, it disappointed a lot of people. The once most popular Linux distribution had now fallen far behind the leading Ubuntu, Fedora and Suse. A lot of its users were moving towards PCLinuxOS

The Debian community has been fighting within itself over several very contentious issues, but in the last few days the group has reached conclusions that should allow it to get its next Linux distribution out the door.

In today's review, we want to highlight an HTML editor that we believe will empower a number of budding web developers who would like to make the switch and do so without the need to dual-boot to use a Frontpage-like application.

The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice version 1.6, the long awaited version with major improvements in a number of areas.

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