Dell Keeps Linux Penguins Marching Forward, Aug 24, 2007

As the only major OEM now offering pre-installed Linux, Dell is eyeing new markets and working with virtualization to increase the market for its Ubuntu clients.

A court has ordered a pirate, and Linux user, to dump his favourite open sauce software and install Microsoft Windows instead.

In regard to the national decision-making process for the requested standard ISO/IEC DIS 29500 for Open XML (OOXML), the relevant standards subcommittee at the German Institute for Standardisation (DIN) voted with 13 to 4 in favour of Open XML as a standard.

Australia's national Linux conference will be returning home next year, with the University of Melbourne playing host.

The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2.

Linux has long been held in mystique as an operating system for hard-core techies or hackers. Yet, this is far from true for today’s distros. A modern version of Linux is as easy to setup and use as the Macintosh is legendary for. Here’s reasons why people stick to Windows and how those factors can be solved in what we like to call a ‘gentle’ approach to Linux.

You might have heard of Microsoft's Silverlight technology. It's a rich internet application (RIA) framework positioned to rival Adobe's Flash. Unlike Flash however, it's only available for Windows and Mac, not Linux. This is where Moonlight comes in. Moonlight is a project to create a Silverlight plug-in for the Mono environment, which will run on Linux, Mac and Windows.

SCO could be facing a serious cash and asset shortage if it does not receive a favorable decision in its 3-1/2-year-old legal battle with Novell over the Unix operating system.

I recently took a look at Microsoft's most active open-source projects and—there's no polite way to say this—they are all junk.

It was a long time in coming. But Microsoft has finally acknowledged that its anti-Linux site had gone past the point of usefulness.

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