Damn Small Linux 3.4 live CD goes gold, Jul 05, 2007

The Damn Small Linux (DSL) team today released DSL 3.4, a live CD featuring a 2.4.26 kernel and lightweight Fluxbox window manager.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries chose to migrate its local servers (about 400 machines) from Windows NT Server to Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0, within two years.

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second alpha release of the K Desktop Environment.

As with Vista under Windows-based VMware, the Vista-on-Ubuntu VM was slower than it should have been.

Enterprises will not adopt mobile Linux because it is too fragmented, according to Symbian's head of enterprise business market development.

There's room for argument over which Linux desktop is the best. When it comes to integrating a Linux desktop into an already existing Windows-based office, though, there's not even a discussion. SLED 10 SP1 is by far the best Linux business desktop around

The logical next step for Canonical, the holding company for Ubuntu, has been to capitalise on this popularity by making advances into commercial markets, offering industrial strength training and support to Linux users, and establishing partnerships with Dell and Sun to provide pre-installed Ubuntu systems.

The Scientific Linux project last week announced the release of Scientific Linux 4.5, an install-only distribution rebuilt from source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Dell will offer its Linux PCs for $50 (£24) less than the equivalent Windows PCs, the company has revealed on one of its websites.

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