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  • German railway on track with Linux migration

    The company running the German railway system has moved half of its servers to Linux, and expects to have more than 300 Linux servers in operation by the end of this year.

  • SuSE tailors Linux for Itanium

    German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.

  • Linux upstart pushes into China

    German Linux start-up Tuxia has cut a deal to bring the company into the expanding and potentially gigantic Chinese market for Internet appliances.

  • Munich's Linux plans attract international attention

    Peter Hofmann, the project leader of the Linux migration in the City of Munich, code-named LiMux, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday what it feels like to become a star in the Linux world.

  • Ximian software gets SuSE support

    Novell has updated Ximian Desktop 2, its end-user software for Unix-based systems, adding more applications and tweaking the product for use with Novell's recently acquired SuSE Linux operating system.

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  • Did SCO open Unix source code?

    Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.

  • 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.

  • Why open source is bad for Australia

    Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Additional reading: Why one Norwegian city switched to Linux

  • High alert for open source?

    Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said Thursday.

  • SuSE widens scope for desktop Linux

    The software maker introduces a version of Linux aimed at enterprise customers, hoping to move the open-source software beyond servers and low-cost PCs.

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