Tamil Nadu gets dual-boot Win-Linux desktops, Mar 06, 2007

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has finalized a tender for 40,000 Lenovo desktops which can be installed with both Novell's Suse Linux and Microsoft's Windows XP Starter Edition.

Many would-be Linux users don't make the leap because there are one or two Windows applications they just can't live without. That doesn't have to hold them back anymore.

Trolltech has loosened key licensing restrictions on its user-modifiable Linux-based mobile phone for open source software developers. Users of the Greenphone will no longer be restricted to running Qtopia software on the device, nor to using the device only in its supplied hardware/software configuration.

Birmingham City Council is mulling an extension to its open-source software deployment, which was criticised last year for falling short of expectations.

Chief maintainer Ken VanDine on March 4 announced the release of Foresight Linux 1.0.1, which boasts a 2.6.19.2 kernel and GNOME 2.16.3 desktop environment. Foresight Linux is based on rPath Linux (and its Conary package management), said to showcase the latest innovations from the GNOME project.

Linux clustering start-up Terascala is generating interest among investors, as the Massachusetts-based company recently received a $3 million in first-round venture capital funding.

In its ongoing litigation against International Business Machines Corp., the SCO Group Inc. on Monday said IBM hurt SCO's relationship with several high-tech powerhouses, causing SCO's market share and revenues to plummet.

Last summer's box office hit "snakes on a plane" was the unlikely story of a batch of snakes getting loose in flight on a 747. In what some might view as just as unlikely, ITA Software is using the Python language to empower its airline reservation system.

SCO, the Unix vendor embroiled in a long-running legal battle over Linux, has recorded another financial loss.

Now, unlike Windows, Linux and the rest of the Unix operating system family don't have Daylight Savings Time innately. Instead, they use an entirely different way of telling time.

The news that Novell has released an Office Open XML (OOXML) translator for OpenOffice.org is yet another nail in the coffin of the office productivity franchise known as Microsoft Office. However, if the open source crowd is really serious about denting Microsoft's dominance in this space, what is needed is a little Evolution.

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