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Bob Sutor, IBM’s VP of open source and standards said at the Black Hat conference at Las Vegas that user should pay attention to design Linux interface less like windows. The UI design should comprise some unique and cool features. IBM joined hands with Linux distributors Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical at Linuxworld the day before to build “Microsoft-free PCs for business.”

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Oracle released Oracle(VM) Templates in order to make the rapid deployment of Enterprise Software.
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One year after announcing its homegrown mobile Linux project, Intel prepares to hand Moblin over to the open source community. Intel is readying a second release of the Moblin open-source platform for mobile computing, with plans set for an alpha-level version in a few weeks, an Intel official said at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in the US on Wednesday.

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With each iteration of windows OS Microsoft has made it less friendlier for linux to be installed along with windows. Linux is all about choices, and I believe the users should have the choice to switch back and forth into whatever OS they want to. The following three are the most convenient way that they can switch back and forth between OSes.
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The Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) project has released an alpha version of Alitheia Core, an open-source software quality-checking tool. Alitheia has been developed by a consortium of European businesses, academics and open source developers. It is available under the two-clause BSD open-source license.
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Google Lively is the new 3D virtual world created by the world’s largest search engine. It’s free. And it changes everything. Especially for telecommuters. Google Lively is billed as a “chat experience” using avatars.

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Late Wednesday evening, a Mozilla spokesperson confirmed that the final edition of Firefox 3.0 is going to be available to the general public this upcoming Tuesday, June 17. The open source product is the second leading web browser on the market next to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with roughly 18 percent market share.

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European governments should promote open source software to increase competition in the European technology sector, the European Commission’s top antitrust chief Neelie Kroes said Tuesday.
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The popular Windows implementation for Unix has reached a new achievement with their 1.0 RC4 release. This release provides bug fixes only.

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