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2007 02 14

Petition Calls for Use of Open Source Software in British Education

More on Brazil's Desktop Linux Deployments

Linux is for Patriotism?

Linux Device Wins Award

SCO Want to Sue PJ (Groklaw)

Key SCO Man Abandons Ship

Red Hat Working Towards Better Interoperability (Without Microvell)

MythTV (Linux/Open Source) Beats TiVo (Linux/Proprietary)

Free CounterStrike Clone Runs Natively on Linux

New Linux Laptop Targets: Going Below $100 per Unit, 150 Million Units

Red Hat Gets an Upgrade (from $21 Target to $30), Holds Line on Pricing

IBM Adds Point-and-click Controls to Mainframes, Uses GNU/Linux

Microsoft 'Shill Studies' Confuse the Media

Microsoft's 'Hardware Department' Loses Another Executive

Microsoft's Stock Down 8 Days in a Row

Even Motley Fool (Pro-Microsof Bias) Loses Confidence in MSFT

Sony's Linux-ready Game Machines to Get Cheaper

Over a Million Windows PCs Affected by a Single Virus

No Timetable for Next Version of Windows

Asian Countries Move to Open Source Software

United States Patent Office Gone Way Too Far

Microsoft Starts Crackdown on Piracy, Could Drive People to Linux

Microsoft Says Vista Has Less Bugs Than It Expected

AMD Brings Open Graphics to Phones

University of Texas Paper on Moving to Linux

Open Source Software Platform on Silicon

Site Converts Photoshop Guides to GIMP Guides, to Aid Switchers

More British Tax Money Funnelled to Failed Microsoft/Proprietary Software

Donated PCs Converted to Linux and Given Away

Embedded Design and Sotware Vendor Turning to Linux

Google Members Bring Enterprise Storage Features to Linux

Linux Confrences Opened Up, Scheduled (and Microsoft Intervenes as Usual)

Open Source Software Companies Hit Milestones, Make Deals

Wow. The Telegraph Not Impressed by Windows Vista

Only 3% of Experts Believe Vista is Secure; Companies Don't Mind Insescure Software -- Schneier

New Open Source Democracy TV Released; Videophone Dialler Uses Linux

Windows Vista Opened the Doors to GNU/Linux

Very Extensive Article on Free Open Source Poster Child (Firefox)

School Teacher Falls in Love with Linux, Makes Xubuntu Classroom

Hardware is Ahead of Software (Or: Windows is Falling Behind)

New Music Player for GNOME Released (Listen 0.5)

Yahoo, Monster Join Anti-DRM Stance

A Professional Application: Free for Linux, Hundreds of Dollars for Mac and Windows

The State of Linux Accessibility Keeps Improving

IBM Goes Web-based with Open Source

Linux Laptop Makes an Appearance on Heroes

ODF Gets High Status with OASIS

Magazines Written the Open Source Way

Windows Takes a Lesson from Linux, Shares Pain

Radisys to Bring Linux-based Applications to RT Multi-core Platform

IBM to Support Novell SUSE for Virtualisation

Broadcom Lends a Hand to Linux

Three Companies Liaise to Deliver More Efficient and Cheaper Linux Phones

MySQL Changes Promise Significant Improvements

Version 1.5 of Network Security Toolket (NST Live CD) Released

Latest Windows Patches Have Glitches; Second Life Incompatibilities

PC Mag Warning on Vista Basic Edition (Crippleware)

Piracy: Biggest Linux Enemy?

Windows to Suffer Glitches Due to Time Changes

Microsoft Answer to Google Still in Chaotic State

Windows Vista on Uncyclopedia (Satire)

RHEL 5 Coming Next Month

Xubuntu Linux to the Rescue (Old Hardware)

Large Open Source Advocacy Finally Announced