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The jury is no longer out on Linux. Oracle, Novell and even Microsoft have acknowledged the Penguin as suitable for the enterprise. Oracle, for instance, has begun actively recommending Linux to customers over all other operating environments, including the Unix flavours and Windows. More worrying for Microsoft is Oracle's claim that its user-developers are moving away from Windows to Linux.

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SuSE has introduced a new Linux operating system product geared for telecommunications companies, named several new executives and signed up an advertising agency to elevate the German company's profile.

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IBM has added several new centers worldwide devoted to Linux specialties in energy, government and mainframes, part of its years-long effort to spread the operating system as widely as possible.

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Evans Data Corp's 2003 Linux Developer Survey is out, and this year Evans brought in Nicholas Petreley -- long-time Linux observer, founding editor of LinuxWorld.com, and contributing editor for InfoWorld -- to analyze the survey results. To get some perspectives on what the survey tells us about Linux developers' likes and dislikes, take a look at this interview.

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A Japanese firm is launching a Linux-based handheld computer sporting Wi-Fi, a mobile phone and a camera, the result of collaboration between China, Korea and Japan. The device is aimed at manufacturers and vendors who may wish to include customised hardware and services.

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Loads of Linux Links (LoLL) Version 1.1.0 has been released.

There are many changes and improvements, notably a new look to the website, W3C compliancy, better search engine and improvement of the underlying data with 1400 links added, 500 links deleted, bringing the total to 4000+ links. See full announcement at: http://loll.sourceforge.net/announce-1.1.0.html .

Loads of Linux Links is a GPled database and software to generate a website with 4000+ subject-classified and searchable Linux links for all levels of Linux users. The purpose of the Loads of Linux Links project is to collect,organise, classify and maintain important URLs about Linux and the Open Source movement. The site is updated several times per week, with database maintenance a top priority.

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Linus Torvalds has said that there is no reason why Linux could not include digital rights management technology, raising the possibility that the software could follow in Microsoft's 'trusted computing' footsteps

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Microsoft said on Thursday it would not offer full technical support to customers running Office XP on Linux using intermediary software such as CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office package.

CrossOver Office allows Microsoft Office XP's productivity suite -- with the exception of Access and Outlook components of the package -- to be run on versions of Linux that use the Gnome or KDE desktop software.

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Taiwanese hardware maker Via Technologies and U.S.-based PC maker Mini-Box have unveiled a tiny desktop computer featuring an embedded Linux operating system.

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Deploying and developing your application on Linux for the IBM pSeries and iSeries POWER platforms is similar to deploying and developing on other Linux systems. In this article the similarities and differences that you need to be aware of for the Linux POWER systems are discussed.

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Thanks Joe for this one:

The Australian hacker has been working on pushing Samba beyond the POSIX world and figuring out what work needs to be done to get Samba to support new filesystems such as XFS, ext3, and Storage Tank. The answer is nothing less than a complete rewrite of Samba's smbd code, which has become his latest pet project. Here's an interview with Andrew Tridgell on his latest Samba rewrite.

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From Mozillazine.org:

Asa Dotzler writes: "After months of discussion and further months of legal investigation, we're finally comfortable moving forward with new names. The new name for the Phoenix browser is 'Firebird'. The documentation and product strings will be updated soon. In addition to securing Firebird, we've also got the OK from those contributing legal resources to use the name 'Thunderbird' for a mail client. Hopefully this will be the end of naming legal issues for a while."

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