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Firefox opening door for Linux in Australia: Linux Australia president

The success of the Firefox browser is driving takeup of open source applications in Australia and opening the door for widespread Linux adoption on the desktop, according to the newly-elected Linux Australia president, Jon Oxer.
Towns the talk of Debian Project

The widely used Debian GNU/Linux distribution has a new project leader following an election process spanning several weeks.
New site to group Aussie open source bloggers

Linux Australia announced today that it will roll out a new Web site, Planet Linux Australia, devoted to aggregating the blogs of prominent Australian Linux and open source developers.
Oxer, Waugh retain Linux Australia spots

Incumbents Jon Oxer and Pia Waugh will keep their respective positions as president and vice president of Australia's peak Linux body for another year.

Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Google should come clean on datacentres
It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
US shows what OPEL could have been
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
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