Linux Online - News from Feb 13, 2007

News from Feb 13, 2007

Virgin America's Airbus A320 with Red in-flight entertainment, Feb 13, 2007

Not-yet-airborne Virgin America invited us to check out the way-decked Airbus A320 with Red prototype in-flight entertainment system that's parked at SFO right now.

Plans for the next Linux kernel revealed, Feb 13, 2007

Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton last week revealed some of his plans for the next kernel version, a few days after the final release of Linux 2.6.20.

New WLAN Linux driver by Intel without proprietary appendage, Feb 13, 2007

Once there the components will automatically appear in the Linux distributions, which upon detecting hardware for the most part automatically configure everything that is required.

Ten more Cape schools get Linux labs, Feb 13, 2007

Absa and Engen will spend R600 000 to provide ten Northern Cape schools with Linux-based school laboratories.

Experts Lash Out at Microsoft Monopoly, Feb 13, 2007

Russian private companies, state bodies, associations and individual PC users are getting increasingly dependent on software provided by American IT giant Microsoft — a dangerous and expensive luxury for a country that is to join the WTO, experts said at a meeting at the Rosbalt new agency on Friday

Zend bulks up PHP app server for business, Feb 13, 2007

Zend Technologies on Monday is expected to release an updated version of Zend Platform, its server software for running corporate Web applications written in PHP language.

GPL 3 release could slip past March, Feb 13, 2007

The Free Software Foundation is no longer committing to the planned March deadline for a new version of the General Public License, but a third draft of the seminal open-source license is due soon.

IBM to lower cost of using Linux, Apple PCs, Feb 13, 2007

... the new software makes it feasible for big businesses to offer their employees a choice of running Windows, Linux or Apple Macintosh software on desktop PCs, using the same underlying software code.

Microsoft, Novell expand on technical collaboration plans, Feb 13, 2007

Microsoft and Novell on Feb. 12 unveiled more specifics regarding their joint technical roadmap.

IBM Pushes Desktop Linux with Open Client, Feb 13, 2007

IBM Corp. Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.

Open source accounting sees new symbol, Feb 13, 2007

Lack of a business-grade accounting system tailored for Australia's onerous taxation system has long kept even the most die-hard Linux fans tied to Windows, but all that is set to change with the open source SYMBOL Accounting.

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