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  • Windows Server reliability crashes in 2007

    The downtime experienced by Windows Server 2003 increased 25 percent to nine hours per server per year, while the reliability of mainstream server-based Linux distributions improved significantly, according to a Yankee Group survey.

  • Sun hires Debian Linux founder

    Sun Microsystems has hired Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian version of Linux and who has held various posts involving the open-source operating system.

  • One city's move to open source

    In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.

  • Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic

    Canonical on Thursday released version 7.04 of Ubuntu Linux, nicknamed Feisty Fawn, but the company's Web site was unable to keep up with the demand for the software.

  • Ubuntu's 'feisty' spin on virtualisation

    The Linux variant is taking a different tack on the multi-OS tech as it vies with offerings from Red Hat and Novell.

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  • One city's move to open source

    In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.

  • Ubuntu carves niche in Linux landscape

    It's not easy building a new version of Linux and establishing a large following. But with the Ubuntu project, one team of programmers has managed to do just that.

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