A la Mobile Linux platform supports dual-mode phones, Mar 17, 2007

A la Mobile Inc. is hoping to help fuel the supply of converged Wi-Fi and GSM (Global System for Mobile) phones with a new version of its Linux-based mobile phone software package.

Yoggie Security Systems has introduced inexpensive personal and small-business versions to its line of tiny, Linux-based firewalls for laptops and PCs.

IT professionals are being forced to adopt Microsoft's operating systems — even if they tell their PC supplier they want a system free of Microsoft software, ZDNet UK's research has revealed.

That Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, prefers the current version of the General Public License, GPLv2, over the version in development, GPLv3, is no secret. But in a lengthy E-mail response to questions from InformationWeek, he offers a full explanation of what he thinks is superior about GPLv2.

A month ago, I started down a path that I hoped would lead me to a great prize: an explanation from the authors of how the General Public License Version 3.0 was shaping up. Little did I know that this journey would contain more curves than San Francisco's Lombard Street.

With the release of Linux-based Xandros Server 2.0 Standard Edition, well-known Linux desktop vendor Xandros Inc. offers compatibility and other services that may give Microsoft SharePoint Server some competition.

I know, I know. Every year is supposed to be the year that GNU/Linux "really takes off" and that "Windows is doomed", etc.. But this year… well this year could actually be the tipping point for Linux and open source. Look at the signs:

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is brilliant, dynamic, full-featured -- and dull. At least that's the way it's presented in almost every distribution and boot disk on the market.

So far, I am very happy with Ubuntu because most things just work, the desktop looks fabulous and it does what I want it to do without having to dig where each option is (unlike Vista's new control panel).

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