GNU/Linux

• Acer launches $500 Atom-powered Linux mini-note
  
  

  Aspire One sports Intel’s Atom processor, an 8.9in screen and a $99 cashback deal on its $599 (Linux) and $699 (Windows XP) sticker price

  
  
  
• The Russian schools Linux pilot goes nationwide
  
  

  The project, if successful, may be the first step towards large-scale migration of Russian secondary education instutitions and, consequently, of the other state agencies to Free Software as President Medvedev stated last year (Russian) while being the First Deputy Prime Minister.

  
  
  
• Five Ways for Windows Users to Test Drive GNU/Linux
• Horny for Ubuntu 8.10: first look at Intrepid Ibex
• X-Rite and Caldera Announce First Ever i1iO Automated Chart Reader for Linux
• IBM supercomputer boosts cancer research
  
  

  The IBM System Cluster 1350 supercomputer includes 1,344 processor cores in a Linux cluster running at 12.5 teraflops (trillion calculations per second) with 150TB of storage, making it one of the fastest research clusters north of the US border.

  
  
  
• Linuxy Declarations of Independence
  
  

  It's almost the Fourth of July, and few things represent the freedoms we enjoy as Americans more than open source software. Now, if only the proprietary world would open up their drivers, quit violating the GPL and abandon copy protection, we'd all be a lot happier.

  
  
  

Technical

• Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
• X Server 1.4.99.904 Released
• KDE Commit-Digest: Issue 112: 25th May 2008
• Package management
• Win4Lin 5.0 makes big improvements

F/OSS

• Open Enterprise Interview with Roy Russo, Loopfuse
• MuleSource Whips Galaxy Enterprise SOA Software Into Shape
• Kiwi web collaboration outfit goes open
• Open-Xchange releases preview of next groupware server for Web 2.0 era
• Free medical tool tackles disease

Leftover

• Rhapsody Opens Fire Against ITunes With DRM-free MP3s
• Malware is Getting Smarter, F-Secure Warns
• Russian desperadoes launch cyber attack on Lithuania
• Microsoft Patches its XP Patch