Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc.  plan to enter into an agreement that would allow open-source Linux software to work with Microsoft’s Windows software, a source close to the situation said on Thursday.
The agreement marks a change of course for Microsoft, which has spent years trying to defeat open-source software. The growing popularity of Linux servers [...]

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Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, the world’s fastest growing Linux distribution, today announced its latest desktop and server version. Following months of development and user feedback, Ubuntu 6.10 offers a cleaner, sharper design, together with new and enhanced desktop applications and advances in security. Significantly faster boot up times and the best in [...]

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Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison is shaking up the software industry again, only this time a takeover bid isn’t involved. Ellison set his sights on Linux software leader Red Hat Inc. late Wednesday by promising Oracle will charge dramatically lower prices to fix the problems that crop up in Red Hat’s products.
Redwood Shores-based [...]

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The new Linux-based home multimedia distribution system generated the loudest buzz at this year’s CEDIA (custom electronic design and installation association) trade show, according to Computer Reseller News, which has published a feature article previewing Monster’s ultra-high-end “Einstein” system, expected to ship by March next year.
According to CRN, Einstein product manager Chris Greene credits Linux with [...]

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The 6th Boston Summit will be held on Columbus Day Long Weekend (October 7-9) in Boston, MA, USA at the MIT Media Lab.
The Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors, but if you want to jump right into the deep end, [...]

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This is to inform you about the Newest release of the Rhythmbox 0.9 series, which includes a large number of fixes, improvements and new features.

Notable new features include:

Further improvements to plugin infrastructure and more plugins
Tag writing and ipod-write support turned on by default. Note that gst-plugins-good 0.10.4 is recommended for ID3 [...]

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Sun Microsystems continued its open source push today with the announcement of an independent governing board to set the direction for its OpenSPARC hardware initiative.
Sun officially made the design of its UltraSPARC T1 processor open source in March and said it’s attracted several thousand downloads.
The company said it hopes to gain new customers with its [...]

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OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt has written an open letter to the open source software community requesting that users assist in pressuring Intel to provide documentation and change the distribution policies for certain components of its wireless drivers. In the past, de Raadt’s efforts have influenced other vendors and compelled them to be more accommodating, [...]

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Popular of all, OpenSSH of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of today depend on have released new version OpenSSH 4.4/4.4p1 
The OpenSSH suite replaces rlogin and telnet with the ssh program, rcp with scp, and ftp with sftp. Also included is sshd (the server side of the package), and the other utilities like ssh-add, ssh-agent, ssh-keysign, ssh-keyscan, [...]

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Ubuntu has become one of the most popular software in the Open Source Community, they now have a new release. The Edgy Eft Beta is the first beta release of Ubuntu 6.10, and with this new beta release comes a whole host of excellent new features.
There are things they have improved in this version like [...]

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