A surprisingly large group of entrepreneurs, including some of Microsoft’s most vocal critics, say they either don’t want or don’t need any court-ordered protection from Bill Gates & Co. Instead, they have come up with their own ways to keep what they see as the wolf from the door.

A surprisingly large group of entrepreneurs, including some of Microsoft’s most vocal critics, say they either don’t want or don’t need any court-ordered protection from Bill Gates & Co. Instead, they have come up with their own ways to keep what they see as the wolf from the door.

GnomeMeeting is a Linux-based clone of NetMeeting. It is H.323 compliant and supports a wide variety of audio and video codes. Source and binaries available on site.

Running on three AAA batteries and an Intel chip, the Simputer will boast a free Linux operating system, 32MB of RAM and 16MB of Flash memory. At a cost of only $200, this simple device (which resembles a hefty Palm) may well bring the e-revolution to India where a scant 2 million PC's are currently distributed between a poverty stricken populace of nearly 1 billion.

Motor giant Ford's European arm is planning to ditch Microsoft as its desktop operating systems provider and move to an open source model, according to its European head of IT.

Motor giant Ford's European arm is planning to ditch Microsoft as its desktop operating systems provider and move to an open source model, according to its European head of IT.

At least one leading Linux distribution - Red Hat - does not conform to LSB 1.0. Furthermore, it is unclear whether Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based Red Hat Inc will - or should - conform to LSB as its Linux distribution effectively becomes a de-facto standard through its growing customer base.

This is a major upgrade, affecting almost all the packages in the distribution. Updates include XFree86 4.1.0, Linux kernels 2.2.19 and 2.4.5, KDE 2.1.2, GNOME 1.4, glibc 2.2.3, and all the usual utilities. Additions include ProFTPD, OpenSSH and OpenSSL, mod_ssl and mod_php, full support for the 2.4 kernel series, and many more.

The final 1 point oh release of the LSB is here. The Linux Standard Base (LSB) defines a system interface for compiled applications and a minimal environment for support of installation scripts. Its purpose is to enable a uniform industry standard environment for high-volume applications conforming to the LSB.

The new release of Mozilla is out, fixing some major crash bugs, adding context sensitive help and a fully integrated Security UI.