• SITA braves open source
  
  

  SITA has chosen Ubuntu for its desktop operating environment. Running on top of this will be open office, as well as several other FOSS applications, aimed at improving SITA's collaborative and engagement environments.

  
  
  
• Brazil explores SA open source push
  
  

  Brazilian ICT companies are keen to capitalise on the South African government's latest e-government push.

  
  
  
• Tirupur Association Trains Partners on Open Source
  
  

  Tirupur IT Association (TITA) recently conducted a two-day training programming on Linux desktop and server administration for dealers in Tirupur.

  
  
  
• Quad-core PowerPC workstation runs Linux
  
  

  Terra Soft Solutions announced a development workstation billed as the heir to the Apple PowerMac G5 Quad, except more open. The Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) PowerStation offers four PowerPC cores clocked at 2.5GHz, up to 32GB RAM, and four bays for serially attached SCSI (SAS) drives.

  
  
  
• CTL's Sub-$400 Mini-Notebook For Business Debuts
  
  

  Pricing for the IL1, which will be available by the end of the month, is $389 for the Windows version and $349 for the Linux model. The device comes with a one-year warranty.

  
  
  
• Review: Asus Eee 900
  
  

  The Linux version of the Asus Eee PC 900, tested here, is probably the better option for customers who only want to use the machines for what they are best at – surfing the web, e-mail and word processing.

  
  
  
• Sugar Labs' Walter Bender on the Sweetness of Collaborative Learning
  
  

  He has founded Sugar Labs, a foundation that seeks to advance development of Sugar, the user interface originally designed for OLPC.

  
  
  
• Are Cisco and Red Hat Getting Cozy?
  
  

  Microsoft spent the 1990s ignoring and dismissing competitive threats from Linux. Apparently, Cisco is determined to avoid that mistake in the modern age of Web 2.0 and open applications.

  
  
  
• Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring released

KDE

• The Power of Plasma theming - a gallery of 23 themes
  
  

  One of the most often mentioned concerns at the KDE booth at LinuxTag was the question if Plasma would force the user to have a black panel. While we did have a second machine showing another theme to resolve all doubts it showed that not all users now yet the power of Plasma theming.

  
  
  
• KDE Commit Digest - Issue 110 - 11th May 2008
  
  

  A wordprocessor-like ruler for repositioning and resizing the Plasma panel. Scripting support re-enabled in KRunner. More developments in the NetworkManager Plasma applet. Initial work to allow closer interaction of Plasma with KNotify's popups. Work on theming, Magnatune membership support, and the ClassicView in Amarok 2.0.

  
  
  
• French KDE Day Conference Videos Available
  
  

  To celebrate the release of KDE 4, the KDE French contributors and the Toulibre LUG organised a two-day event on January 25th and 26th 2008 in Toulouse, France.

  
  
  

F/OSS

• Is Apache the Greatest Open Source Project?
• Another West Virginia hospital gets Open Source EHR
  
  

  Lakin Hospital, a long-term nursing facility operated by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, has adopted an open source electronic health record.

  
  
  

OpenOffice.org

• I'm actually using OpenOffice Writer
• link to get templates and dictionaries online

Microsoft

• Microsoft's own chip design blamed for Xbox 360 RRoD
• Microsoft leaks Office release secrets

Leftovers

• Usenet Villified In NY Deal With ISPs
  
  

  Blocking all newsgroups does appear to be a broad approach to a problem involving a minority of such groups. As with the Internet in general, not everything in Usenet poses a threat. But no one wants to be tainted with even a suggestion of being soft on child porn, hence the rush to apply censorship with a sweeping axe rather than a skillfully-wielded scalpel.

  
  
  
• EFF Sues Rodeo Group Over Removal Of Videos On YouTube
  
  

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked a federal court to protect the free speech rights of an animal rights group after its video critiques of animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube because of false copyright claims.

  
  
  
• Study: SOA Deployments on Rise
• AAI Congratulates FTC on Opening of Intel Investigation