The Indian federal government is going to save a lot of money by phasing out MS Office and switching to OpenOffice. Other federal agencies will follow.
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I am currently testing Suse Linux 10.1. And folks, I am a Linux fanatic - but this distro is so bad that would rather go for Win98 instead of this piece of software.
To make it short: Installation of the AMD64 took about 60 min on my 1 gigabyte, 2,4 Ghz AMD 3600+. Just to find [...]

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Google has released Google Earth for Linux. I had no time to test it, but the changelog sounds impressive. The Linux version has all the features of the Windows version. Good to see that Google has not forgotten about its roots….
Get Google Earth for Linux while it is hot….

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I found a message on Groklaw that Dell is now engaging in the Linux Desktop business. After first and cautious steps a few months ago, Dell is obviously more openly marketing its Linux Desktops.

They also consider Linux in their enterprise business as an “industry standard” after 25% of all Dell servers are equipped with (the [...]

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A movie on Linux, Linus Torvalds, GNU, the GPL, Free Open source software, its philosophy, the background and the future. Partly in some Scandinavian language .
Don’t be afraid of this bearded guy - not all Linux developers or users look like him

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