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Firefox releases 2nd 1.5 beta, tops 11% marketshare —
Nov. 02, 2005 —
 The Mozilla project Wednesday released another beta version of the Firefox 1.5 browser, one that fixes a number of security bugs and includes improved pop-up ad blocking, faster Web navigation features, and added support for Mac OS X. ...
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New book explains how to "Just Say No" to Windows —
Nov. 01, 2005 —
 Crashes, viruses, worms, patches, forced-upgrades... Despite all these drawbacks, why does Windows still dominate the PC desktop? Why haven't users switched to Mac or Linux? Tony Bove answers these questions and explains how to "escape the Beast from Redmond and still function," in his new book, ...
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Cheerful "Moving to Linux" includes WFTL LiveCD —
Oct. 31, 2005 —
 MadPenguin.com has a published a review by staff writer Christian Einfeldt of Moving to Linux (second edition): Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!, a new book by Marcel Gagne. Author Gagne is the creator of the WFTL (Writer and Free Thinker at Large) Linux distro, ...
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Article offers concise guide to Linux shell scripting —
Oct. 31, 2005 —
Although modern desktop Linux distributions pride themselves in minimizing the need for users to resort to command-line activities, there are times when a visit to a shell prompt can come in handy. To this end, a concise guide to Linux shell scripts is now available from the LinuxHelp blog. ...
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GoblinX celebrates its first birthday —
Oct. 28, 2005 —
The GoblinX LiveCD Linux distribution is celebrating its first birthday today. "One year of life, one year of devoted efforts to make it a great liveCD distro and also as good as possible," says Flavio de Oliveira of the GoblinX project. GoblinX is a bootable LiveCD based on Slackware Linux. ...
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Free program translates Euro languages to/from English —
Oct. 27, 2005 —
Heise Online reports that GlobalWare AG is offering individuals, universities, and public institutions open source translation software that runs on Linux. The software, called OpenLogos, reportedly translates between English and German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. ...
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Sun beams JDS, Looking Glass at all major Linux distro's —
Oct. 25, 2005 —
Sun Microsystems Inc. has big plans for its Java Desktop System and on Tuesday announced a new program that will allow its Linux desktop variant to run on all major Linux distributions. While Sun remains fully committed to the JDS on both the Solaris and Sun Ray environments, ...
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CrossOver Office crosses over to 5.0 —
Oct. 25, 2005 —
CodeWeavers today released a major update to its software platform that enables many Windows programs to run as-if-natively on Linux systems. CrossOver Office Version 5.0 adds "initial support" for Microsoft Office 2003, and adds a "powerful" new feature called "bottles" that makes it easier to manage Windows applications, ...
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Comparing OpenOffice 2.0 to StarOffice 8 —
Oct. 24, 2005 —
As alternatives to Microsoft's Office 2003, the free OpenOffice.org suite and low-cost StarOffice both have a lot to offer. eWEEK Labs recently reviewed StarOffice 8, and was impressed by its broad platform support and low cost -- two measures by which the Sun Microsystems Inc. office productivity suite edges out ...
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Review gives Ubuntu 5.10 glowing marks —
Oct. 24, 2005 —
 An open source consulting company has published an online review of Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger." Reviewer Nilayan Sharma takes the new Ubuntu release "for a spin to see if it holds up to the reputation for stability and ease of use that we've come to expect." ...
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New website focuses on home Linux users —
Oct. 24, 2005 —
A new website aimed at home Linux users has launched. HomeDistro.com claims PCs in the home represent "70 percent of the desktop market and should not be ignored by developers and remaster geeks." ...
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Linspire seeks speakers for 2006 Desktop Linux Summit —
Oct. 24, 2005 —
Event host Linspire Inc. is looking for speakers and panelists for its fourth annual Desktop Linux Summit, set for April 24-26, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, Calif. ...
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TurboLinux FUJI v11 coming to Japan Nov. 25, elsewhere soon —
Oct. 21, 2005 —
TurboLinux Inc. Friday said that TurboLinux FUJI Version 11 will be available in retail stores in Japan beginning on Nov. 25. Among its distinguishing characteristics is compatibility with Windows files, applications, and system functions, such as MS Office-compatible software, Active Directory Authentication, file sharing, Desktop Search, Turbo Search, and others. ...
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Flock releases beta of new open-source browser —
Oct. 21, 2005 —
A new Web browser with a socially conscious streak was released for public tryout Thursday night by a group of 15 young entrepreneurs housed in a garage just off the Stanford University campus in Silicon Valley. Flock, as it is called, is a Mozilla Firefox-based, freely downloadable, open source browser ...
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 goes gold —
Oct. 20, 2005 —
OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first office application suite to feature native support for the OASIS-approved OpenDocument file format, was released Thursday morning, one week following the project's fifth anniversary of its founding. ...
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Firefox exceeds 100 million downloads in one year —
Oct. 19, 2005 —
The Mozilla Foundation extended 100 million "thank you's" Wednesday to Firefox community members for "reigniting innovation on the Web," the group said. As the browser's first anniversary approaches this November, Firefox adoption numbers have exceeded expectations with more than 100 million downloads since Firefox's introduction, ...
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Article demystifies "top ten" Linux shell commands —
Oct. 19, 2005 —
In the dark days before GUIs (way, way back in the '70s and earlier), command-line instructions were all a computer could understand from a human. Technically, it's still all they understand -- but the instructions have been obfiscated by the use of the point-and-click GUI interface. ...
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Open source multimedia sharing project issues bugfix update —
Oct. 19, 2005 —
ccHost, an open source project that provides free Web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multimedia using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata, Wednesday released a bugfix version update (v1.0.2). ...
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Indian bank deploys Red Hat Linux on 10,000 desktops —
Oct. 19, 2005 —
India's Canara Bank has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its OS of choice as it automates more than 1,000 of its branches, reports Infoworld/Netherlands. The move involves about 1,000 servers and 10,000 desktops. Canara is one of India's largest government-owned banks. ...
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Open Source Business Conference looms in Boston —
Oct. 18, 2005 —
Two weeks remain until the opening of the Open Source Business Conference, set for Nov. 1-2 at the Boston Marriott in Newton, Mass. OSBC's program will bring together highly placed execs from the best-known names in enterprise IT (Sun, Microsoft, Novell, Sybase, Intel, EMC, SugarCRM, among others), ...
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Two first looks at SUSE 10.0 —
Oct. 18, 2005 —
The recent release of Novell SUSE Linux 10.0 has elicited strikingly different reactions from a pair of reviewers -- Alan Canton, president of a software consulting company, who is experiencing SUSE for the first time; and eWEEK.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, a seasoned SUSE user. ...
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IT leaders launch Linux desktop standards —
Oct. 18, 2005 —
The Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base work group Tuesday announced the formation of the Linux Standard Base Desktop Project, with the support of Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linspire Inc., Mandriva SA, Novell Inc., RealNetworks Inc., Red Hat Inc., Trolltech, Xandros Inc., and others. ...
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OSDL conducts desktop Linux survey —
Oct. 17, 2005 —
The Open Source Development Labs Inc. (OSDL), which employs Linux creator Linus Torvalds and strives to be the "center of gravity" for Linux, is currently conducting a Desktop Linux survey, and DesktopLinux.com readers are invited to take part. ...
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Open Clip Art Library swells to 6,900 SVG images, plans image converters —
Oct. 17, 2005 —
Release 0.18 of Open Clip Art Library, containing over 6,900 scalable vector graphics (SVG) files created by more than 500 artists, is now available for download and use, project developer Jon Phillips said Monday. The Open Clip Art Library is a cooperative effort between artists and users. ...
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Why Ubuntu has gone big time so quickly —
Oct. 17, 2005 —
No doubt about it: Ubuntu -- along with its cousins, Kubuntu and Edubuntu -- has become an open source big shot in just one year's time. The Debian-based distro already has succeeded in attracting thousands of satisfied users, ranging from Linux beginners to seasoned administrators. ...
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