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    Any Linux developer in a coma for the last six years who awoke to the sight of LinuxWorld's trade floor in San Francisco this week would most likely have suffered a severe stroke.

  • NSW Police investigate Linux

    The New South Wales Police chief information officer says open-source systems deployed by the state's police force are just as reliable as proprietary systems.

  • Debian Linux sites hacked

    Several servers belonging to the Debian Project, maintainers of the Debian Linux distribution, were compromised and subsequently pulled offline last week.

  • In depth: Australia's Samba man gets smartest person gong

    The creator of the popular Samba software, which enables Linux machines to act as Windows file-servers, Andrew Tridgell, has been named Australia's smartest person in the ICT sector by Australia's Bulletin Magazine. ZDNet Australia spoke to Tridgell, and Professor Bill Caelli of Queensland's University of Technology (QUT) -- a runner up on the 'Smart 100' list -- about the state of open source in Australia and the future of ICT and open source.

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    Linux users can now run Office XP on Linux following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.

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