• Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux
  
  

  One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics for academic users.
  
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  Though it could be sour grapes at having its unbundled OS proposal scuppered by Microsoft, ELCOT now says it recommends only Linux. On its website, the organization says, "ELCOT has been using SUSE Linux and Ubuntu Linux operating systems on desktop and laptop computers numbering over 2,000 during the past two years and found them far superior as compared to other operating systems, notably the Microsoft Operating System."

  
  
  
• Super Talent Bundles Ubuntu Linux
  
  

  Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, announced today that, for a limited time its line of MasterDrive MX SSDs will include a free CD containing the Ubuntu Desktop Edition Linux operating system and the OpenOffice software suite.

  
  
  
• Open source to 'blow mobiles open'
  
  

  McCabe said that the impending release of Google Android would provide a "wonderful catalyst" for the breakdown of proprietary software and hardware bundles from telcos. Other open source handset software includes the recent release of mobile Ubuntu.

  
  
  
• Linux experiences 'prolific' growth, says Linux Foundation's Zemlin
  
  

  Zemlin: The Linux platform is experiencing prolific growth in all aspects of computing, from embedded system to mobile applications and high-performance computing [HPC]. Linux is everywhere, from Google to Facebook, [from] cell phones to cash registers and ATMs. It's growing faster than any other platform and increasing its overall share of the market.

  
  
  
• Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Options

Eee

• Eee PC Update- 904/905 to replace 901? Debian to replace Xandros?
• Bootcamp 531 - Tweaking the Eee PC

Applications

• 11 Video Players for Linux - Review
• 42 of the Best Free Linux Audio Software
• Review of the Last.fm Open-Source Client for Linux

F/OSS

• EU: EC considers study on migration to Open Source
  
  

  The European Commission is considering doing research on whether it should migrate to Open Source software, the EC's director of corporate IT solutions and services, Christos Ellinides, told Reuters in an interview.

  
  
  
• Firefox 3 beefs up security
• Make Firefox fly: building from a minefield of source
• BitNami Adds Modules
• The Blessings of Synchronized Releases

Leftover

• Dell offers 'Windows Vista Bonus' to frightened customers
  
  

  Dell is actively promoting a Microsoft licensing loophole to channel partners eager to keep selling PCs installed with Windows XP, after Microsoft's official cut off.
  
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  During the US Department of Justice's antitrust trial, IBM revealed that Microsoft had delayed giving IBM access to Windows 95 simply because IBM refused to kill its own OS/2 operating system or agree to not bundle its SmartSuite rival to Office on IBM PCs.