IBM, Canonical, Novell, Red Hat to Deliver Microsoft-Free Desktops Worldwide.
For the first time, IBM and leading Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will join forces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-free personal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the one billion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009. more... and IBM targets Microsoft with desktop Linux initiative and more... and IBM Announces New Products and Initiatives to Enable Next-Generation Linux.

VMware Joins The Linux Foundation.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that VMware has become a member of the Foundation. The company joins existing Linux Foundation members and technology leaders such as Adobe, AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Motorola, NEC, Novell, Oracle and Red Hat, among others. more... and VMware joins Linux Foundation--while reportedly violating the GPL.

Mozilla reveals the Firefox of the future?
Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora. The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and designs for the browser of the future. more... and First Look: Mozilla Snowl.

Intel's Larrabee GPU Will Support Linux.
Intel's Larrabee will not launch for another year or two, but additional details were shared this week on this project that will launch Intel into the discrete graphics arena. We've known this already, but Larrabee will be a many-core graphics processor with an x86 instruction set designed to compete with the graphics cards from both ATI/AMD and NVIDIA. more...

WiFi software arrives on Linux desktops.
A vendor of Linux-based WiFi arrays is finally releasing a version of its WiFi Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open source, widget-like Xirrus WiFi Monitor for Linux enables users to monitor, secure, and troubleshoot WiFi networks, says Xirrus. more...

Applications.
Areca is a personal file backup software developed in Java. It is released under the GPL v2.
boxee had developed the first “social” media center. it plays media from your computer and other devices in your home network, as well as connect you to various Internet sources that allow you to stream or download movies, tv shows, music and photos.
Cairo-Dock - Desktop dock for openSUSE Linux.
FOG is a free, open source computer cloning solution and FOGUserGuide.
gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop.
Notepad++ is a source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. (Windows Only).

Misc.
Telltale Weekly is a provider of low cost, DRM-free audiobook downloads in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and AAC formats.
Record your desktop with Linux tools.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS - whole load of apps going on.
15 Examples To Master Linux Command Line History.
Dell shipping five Hardy Heron systems.

How To Tips.

How To Easily develop and deploy web applications from subversion.
How To Tips and tricks: Failed dependencies RedHat.
How To Remove Mono from Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
How To Use SSH local and remote port forwarding.
How To Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server and Clients Setup in Ubuntu.
How To Write Unicode characters with a Compose key.

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