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  • Torvalds wanted Linux testers over Christmas break

    Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and the maintainer of its development kernel, appealed on Saturday for people to test the latest release candidate of the Linux kernel.

  • Wimbledon moves from AIX to Linux

    The Wimbledon tennis championship is moving away from a network of servers running on AIX, IBM's version of Unix, to the use of Linux and Web caching technology.

  • Microsoft: Linux is anti-commercial

    Microsoft asked for references to free software to be removed from a document presented at the recent United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference, the software giant admitted on Friday.

  • Debian bangs drum for mission-critical apps

    Free Linux distribution Debian doesn't have the support of a company behind it but that isn't a brake on quality, according to one developer.

  • Asian Linux distro is ahead of schedule

    Asian software vendors are on track to release Asianux 2.0, an Asian Linux distribution, two months ahead of schedule.

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  • Wimbledon moves from AIX to Linux

    The Wimbledon tennis championship is moving away from a network of servers running on AIX, IBM's version of Unix, to the use of Linux and Web caching technology.

  • Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders

    Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and the maintainer of the development kernel, is cracking down on developers who add last-minute changes to the kernel.

  • Linux desktop emulates Windows for office apps

    Lycoris has released an add-on for its desktop version of Linux that lets Microsoft applications run without the need to pay for a Windows software licence.

  • UN body releases desktop Linux guide

    A Linux desktop manual for novice PC users has been produced by a UN-funded organisation, the International Open Source Network (IOSN).

  • 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.

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