Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U5 now available, May 21, 2007

Update 5 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 was made available today. This update includes the following enhancements:

With just under a week before the official opening of practice for the 91st running of the Indianapolis 500, the Tux 500 Linux marketing program has now received over $10,000 in contributions from the global Linux open source community.

LaCie today announced it is the first to offer a complete burning and LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling solution for all operating systems. This includes the first-ever LightScribe Labeler software for Linux, a new version of LightScribe Labeler software for Mac, and SureThing LightScribe Labeler for Windows.

Warren has announced the beta2 development release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. The ISO image is available for download and test in the mepis 'testing' subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site and public mirrors.

MEPIS has announced the alpha1 release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. The ISO image is available for download and testing in the mepis 'testing' subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site and public mirrors.

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), (http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, is pleased to announce that LPI Board member, Jim Lacey, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the organization.

SCALE is inviting all Open Source organizations to participate in the fourth annual So Cal Linux Expo.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that it now hosts an officially recognized forum for Ubuntu Linux, increasing its total number of participating distributions to twenty three. With the addition of Ubuntu, LQ now has participation from four of the five most popular distributions, as ranked by Distrowatch.

You can find out more about 2004.3 by checking out the release page or reading the ChangeLog.

What the city of Munich is presently implementing has already been achieved at the long-established company Eugen Längler GmbH & Co., located in the Swabian town of Güglingen. The entire company IT, including the ERP system they used, was changed over to Debian GNU/Linux.

Two years later, it was clear for me that Linux had the potential to be an excellent alternative to Windows, or maybe even a full replacement, and at the time I thought that it would be good to provide a Linux distribution that would be as easy to use as Windows. So I started to "play" with Slackware, and later with a Red Hat. It was also the time of the first versions of KDE. After a few months of work, I released the first Mandrake, in July '98, and was the first distro to ship with KDE 1.0 as default graphical environment.

LQ) Tell us a little about the just released Fedora project (How do you see it impacting RH, how does it compare to Cooker or even Debian, what went into it's release, etc).

JH) Fedora is what Red Hat Linux was. Kind of the People's Republic of Myanmar to Burma. It's a project with rolling releases, not a product with predictable release dates, support, services, etc.

We decided that the rapid release cycle of our retail product was not conducive to retail selling paradigms, nor was slowing down innovation to suit that. We also decided it was time we made it a little easier for folks to develop with us, and to build on our products.

I would compare it to Debian. What's in the release is what would have gone in Red Hat Linux 10, if there was one. The main difference will be the amount and level of influence contributors and thrid parties will have on the project's direction.

The AbiWord team is proud to announce the first global release of the award-winning Open Source word processor, AbiWord version 1.0.1. More than three years in the making, AbiWord is a reliable, extensible, cross-platform word-processor with many powerful features.

DocPro will correctly transform multiple documents, to multiple output formats. It includes the capability to arbitrarily set font sizes, margins, callout definitions etc... via a GUI interface.

Marcelo Tosatti, 18 years of age and a developer at Conectiva, was chosen by Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox to be the new maintainer of the Linux kernel. Beginning at the end of November, he well occupy this position in place of Cox, the current maintainer.

After lots of improvements and new functionnalities over its french section, Lolix is proud to announce the opening of its US section.

TVminder, a free service that sends its subscribers email reminders when actors or movies they want to see appear on television, was built entirely with open-source tools.

NCR has announced that businesses running applications on Red Hat Linux now have access to high availability support services from NCR's Worldwide Customer Services group.

Launched a few months ago, LinuxForKids.com is steadily increasing the number of titles reviewed.