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gOS unboxed: Should Microsoft worry? —
Nov. 21, 2007 —
Microsoft's rivalry with Google heated up considerably this past year when rumors surfaced that Google might release its own operating system to compete with Windows. Has Google finally jumped into the fray with its own OS? ...
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KDE 4 is almost ready to go —
Nov. 21, 2007 —
 KDE e.V, the nonprofit organization behind the popular KDE desktop environment, has announced the immediate availability of the first release candidate for its next major release: KDE 4.0. ...
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Vista worries cause businesses to consider Macs and Linux —
Nov. 19, 2007 —
KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced on Nov. 19 that its new survey revealed that 90 percent of the Windows users are concerned about migrating to Vista, and that 44 percent would consider deploying Macs or Linux-based systems to avoid Vista migration. ...
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OLPC remains laudable —
Nov. 16, 2007 —
 I've come up with an ambitious plan for my next five years. In five years I intend to be a billionaire and I'm announcing it to the world so that everyone knows. ...
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Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PCs sell out —
Nov. 15, 2007 —
Right after Halloween, Wal-Mart introduced Everex's Ubuntu Linux-powered TC2502 gPC for a list price of $198. Two weeks later, they're sold out. Everex tells DesktopLinux that more will be coming though. ...
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Forrester calls desktop Linux a credible threat to Windows —
Nov. 14, 2007 —
Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow over the next year as its distributors continue to work hard at making it an enterprise-class offering, research group Forrester predicts. "Will desktop managers continue down the path of standardization on the Windows platform, and will ...
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Microsoft adds NAP for Linux and Mac —
Nov. 14, 2007 —
BARCELONA—Microsoft's Network Access Protection platform is being extended to Linux and the Mac in heterogeneous network environments through third-party products. ...
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Fedora 8 proves popular and powerful —
Nov. 14, 2007 —
It took just three days before 54,000 copies of Fedora 8, the Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported Linux distribution, were up and running. ...
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The little desktop Linux that came out of the blue —
Nov. 13, 2007 —
When a desktop Linux distribution suddenly becomes popular before even DistroWatch starts tracking it, you know you've got something special. One new Ubuntu-based distribution, gOS, has managed to capture users' attention purely by word of mouth over the Internet.
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Laptop project starts 'buy one, get one' initiative —
Nov. 13, 2007 —
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative on Nov. 12 kicked off its short-term "give one, get one" project that will send one computer to the purchaser and a second to a child in a developing nation. ...
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Novell, Dell bring SUSE Linux desktops to China —
Nov. 12, 2007 —
Promises made are promises kept. Novell announced at August's LinuxWorld in San Francisco that it would be bringing SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 Service Pack 1 to Chinese users, and that day is almost here. ...
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Vista vs. desktop Linux: One year in —
Nov. 08, 2007 —
Opinion -- After almost a year since Microsoft released Vista to manufacturing, it's time to re-evaluate it and decide if it's finally the equal of the best of the desktop Linuxes. ...
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Bumps on the road to document exchange nirvana —
Nov. 04, 2007 —
The OpenDocument Foundation has announced its plans to sever itself from participation in or further advocacy of its namesake office document format in favor of the World Wide Web Consortium's XHTML (Extensible HTML)-based Compound Document Format. ...
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Document format dispute spills into the open —
Nov. 04, 2007 —
 The recent decision by the Open Document Foundation to substitute the World Wide Web Consortium's Compound Document Format in place of the format it was set up to promote, the Open Document Format, has sparked a contentious debate over what shape the format should take. ...
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Microsoft vs. Mandriva, aka Godzilla vs. Bambi —
Nov. 02, 2007 —
 Opinion -- A few days ago I was going to write up how French Linux distributor Mandriva had signed up a deal to deliver 17,000 Intel-powered Classmate PCs with a customized version of Mandriva Linux 2007, built on Mandriva Flash technology, to Nigerian schoolchildren. ...
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Multimedia-centric Linux OS adds A/V goodies —
Nov. 02, 2007 —
StartCom has updated its multimedia-oriented Linux desktop with new features targeted at audio/video fans. While it can also serve as a general purpose desktop, StartCom MultiMedia Edition version ML-5.0.6 comes preloaded with a variety of tools to hear, view, edit, mix, dub, finish, and share music and video projects, ...
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No worries: head of MEPIS Linux is fine —
Nov. 01, 2007 —
 Users of the popular Linux distribution MEPIS were getting worried about the distribution's leader, who had been rather quiet lately. ...
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Linux-powered Asus Eee PC mini-laptop arrives —
Nov. 01, 2007 —
 The Xandros Linux-powered "ultra-mobile PC" (UMPC) has finally arrived. One of the most eagerly awaited laptops in some time, the tiny Asus Eee PC 4G, is now available from online retailers that include Newegg and Directon. ...
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Myah OS 3.0 alpha live CD released —
Nov. 01, 2007 —
 Myah OS creator Jeremiah Cheatham has issued the first preliminary release of Myah OS 3.0. The gaming- and multimedia-oriented live CD Linux offering is built with an "efficient" Xfce 4.4.1 desktop, and bundles Internet, office, graphics, development tools, and numerous other applications. ...
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Everex launches $198 Ubuntu Linux gPC at Wal-Mart —
Oct. 31, 2007 —
 Everex, a longtime personal computer vendor, has unveiled its latest PC featuring Ubuntu Linux-based open-source productivity software and Google-based Web 2.0 applications, for a mere $198.
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Web developers can now download Firefox 3 Beta 1 to test more than 30 new features in the popular open-source browser released from Mozilla Nov. 19. ...
