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  • Aust open source body lashes Gartner analysis

    Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) is disputing Gartner analyst Annette Jump's claim that pre-installing Linux on PCs encourages piracy of Windows.

  • UK is an open source 'third world country'

    Linux User Expo: Britain is lagging behind the rest of Europe where it comes to adopting open-source software, says a lobbyist. But the open-source community cannot expect businesses to adopt Linux without better technical support.

  • Microsoft opens Windows for UK

    The United Kingdom is the latest country to join a Microsoft program that lets international governments see the otherwise secret source code underlying Windows.

  • UK govt investigates Linux savings

    The UK government is carrying out nine Linux tests with IBM, to find out how much it could save by switching to open source.

  • Quarter of UK SMEs test Linux

    One in four small companies are testing Linux, and half of them hope to use it as their core operating system in place of Windows, according to a survey published by IBM on Monday.

  • UK government and IBM test a secure Linux

    The U.K. Cabinet Office and IBM are working together on a secure open-source environment for public and private sector organisations.

  • Novell: 81% boost in Linux revenues

    The company saw a 33 per cent growth in its Linux business over the fourth quarter of last year, while its services business plunged by 26 per cent.

  • Microsoft sabotaging GPL, claims Samba

    Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals.

  • Torvalds dumps KDE for Gnome

    Ticked off at the latest revamp of KDE, Linux progenitor Linus Torvalds has switched to GNOME. Apparently he thought KDE 4.0 was a "disaster" and "half-baked". Harsh words indeed.

  • ASUS to release desktop Eee PC with Linux

    Asus has confirmed the existence of the Ebox, a desktop version of the popular Eee PC laptop. Like its notebook counterpart, will be available with either Windows or Linux.

  • Linux 'teething problems' affect netbook returns

    The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Linux vendor Canonical.

  • Google selling unlocked Android phone

    Google's Android developer team has started selling the Android Dev Phone 1, the first Android-based device unlocked to allow the use of any SIM card or software.

  • Ubuntu to run on ARM netbooks

    Canonical has announced it will be developing a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically for ARM's Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor architectures.

  • Open source adoption ramps up

    Eighty five percent of companies are already using open source software, with most of the remaining 15 per cent expecting to do so within the next year, according to analysts at Gartner.

  • Australian businesses won't see IBM Linux PC

    After announcing its move into the Eastern European enterprise market with a new Linux and Lotus based PC, an analyst has said it is unlikely IBM and its partners will offer anything similar to Australian businesses.

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