Following recent reports of a South African bank eyeing out Linux, Novell South Africa today issued a statement in which it said it had reached an agreement with First National Bank of South Africa to standardise the bank's 12 000 desktops in its 680 retail branches on Novell's Linux product.
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Microsoft strikes another deal - this time with Xandros
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com –
Microsoft Corp. said Monday it will share technology with Linux distributor Xandros Inc., the latest in a string of deals meant to help the patent-protected Windows operating system work more smoothly with open-source programs.
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Open source revenues to reach $5.8bn
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Sales of open source software will grow from $1.8bn last year to $5.8bn in 2011, analyst firm IDC predicts.
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Ubuntu Propaganda
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Inspired by a "Vista-Capable" User Avatar which said "Windows Vista incapable/ Stick with Windows XP", a Linux supporter made this cool sticker. Would be nice to see it available in real.
Read more »The open source governmental adoption wave
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"While governments considering supporting OSS are primarily concerned with significant switching costs and incompatibility problems, OSS is actually superior to proprietary software because it increases compatibility and consequently decreases switching costs in the long term."
Read more »Cleaning up all those unnecessary junk files...
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This article shows you how to get rid of those unwanted files taking up space in your Ubuntu folders.
Read more »Berlin to make better use of its free software
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Good on you, Harald Wolf! This Senator of Economics of Berlin has decreed his department is migrating to free software in 2008.
Read more »Free software makes the invisible man
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Remember the ever-popular "boy gets invisible and heads into girls locker room" storyline in movies? Free software may be about to make this dream a reality!
Read more »Is the desktop dead?
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Red Hat’s, Brian Stevens, claims that the desktop is dead. This may seem a trifle premature, but from my own perspective, that has already been the case for several years.
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Google Releases Program To Take Web Apps Offline
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All of the following under the New BSD license:
"Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:
*Store and serve application resources locally
*Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
"Linux car" first to crash at Indianapolis 500
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GNU/Linux fans, unfortunately, didn't exactly get the publicity they were hoping for at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, when the so-called "Linux car" they had sponsored proved to be the first in the race to crash, ultimately causing it to finish dead last.
Read more »A GNU/Linux computer in every garage?
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A U.S. government- and industry-led coalition aiming to equip every car and roadside in America with wirelessly connected computers has tapped GNU/Linux for a prototype design. The Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium (VII-C) hopes to lower driver death rates, reduce traffic jams, and media-enable cars before 2017.
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