Microsoft: Novell deal a milestone despite squabbles, Feb 12, 2007

Microsoft's deal late last year with Novell may have set a record for shortest honeymoon, with the two companies publicly bickering within days.

Ubiquiti Networks is shipping what are claimed to be the first-ever mini-PCI-based WiFi radios to boast 600mW transmit power, and the first to support operating temperatures from -45 to 95 degrees Celsius. The ExtremeRange WiFi modules have both been tested extensively under Linux, the company says.

Novell and Intel plan to announce on Monday software that improves the performance of Windows running on the Xen virtualisation software.

From Brazil to Pakistan, some of the world's poorest children will peer across the digital divide this month -- reading electronic books, shooting digital video, creating music and chatting with classmates online.

After a year of worrying about viruses and worms, and actually having to clean up after a minor virus problem, I decided that enough was enough, and installed Linux on his box. He actually took well to it, and has been using Linux for at least five years now without incident.

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