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A big marketing push is planned for the latest version of Firefox, the main rival to Microsoft&apos;s Internet Explorer. [&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/default.stm&quot;&gt;BBC News | Technology | UK Edition&lt;/a&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/29.html#a3910</guid>			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:54:01 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml">BBC News | Technology | UK Edition</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/24.html#a3904</link>			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsisfree.com/sources/info/27383/&quot;&gt;eHub&lt;/a&gt;. A current list of new web applications and services with a focus on social software, web 2.0, Ajax, ruby on rails, tagging, folksonomy, and next generation web. [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsisfree.com/&quot;&gt;NewsIsFree: Recent Additions&lt;/a&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/24.html#a3904</guid>			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:40:49 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/newchannels.xml">NewsIsFree: Recent Additions</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3899</link>			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://osdir.com/Article7929.phtml&quot;&gt;Vienna&apos;s open source desktop migration takes off&lt;/a&gt;. Thousands of city employees have started using OpenOffice.org and hundreds are running Linux, less than two months after the &apos;soft&apos; migration started. [&lt;a href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/a&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3899</guid>			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:36:37 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3896</link>			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://osdir.com/Article7927.phtml&quot;&gt;Linux Desktop Making Major Gains via Intel&lt;/a&gt;. Today on LXer.com, two of my collaborators joined me in writing a story about Intel&apos;s Government Assisted PC Program in rural China. Word of the program came from a source we believe came from inside Intel. Basically, the story is a leak....As we researched and vetted the article, I came to realize that the company could single handedly replace Microsoft as the largest supplier of Desktop software globally. Their initiaitves in developing nations staggers the imagination. 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Adam thinks 2006 will be the year the Web explodes:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The explosion I am talking about is the shifting of a website&apos;s content from internal to external. Instead of a website being a &amp;lsquo;place&amp;rsquo; where data &amp;lsquo;is&amp;rsquo; and other sites &amp;lsquo;point&amp;rsquo; to, &lt;STRONG&gt;a website will be a source of data that is in many external databases&lt;/STRONG&gt;, including Google. Why &amp;lsquo;go&amp;rsquo; to a website when all of its content has already been absorbed and remixed into the collective datastream.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;His post specifically referenced Google, but I think this trend is much larger than even Google. The thing which is going to tie all this together is of course &lt;b&gt;feeds&lt;/b&gt;. Mainly RSS, but perhaps Atom&apos;s much-vaunted extensibility will come into play too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This gets to the heart of the matter and I think Feedburner is onto something big here. Feedburner now views the item (e.g. a single post from your blog, or a specific search result in a topic feed) as &amp;lsquo;the atomic unit of measure in the feed&amp;rsquo;, which will in turn lead to Feedburner managing syndicated content &amp;lsquo;at a more atomic level by attaching &apos;threads&apos; to the item.&amp;rsquo; It reminded me of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002402.php&quot;&gt;Design for Data&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002626.php&quot;&gt;&amp;rsquo;content will be more important than its container&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt; themes I was big on at the end of last year and beginning of this (and which I will be re-focusing on now)[sigma].&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you think about it, focusing on the feed item is a profound change in how we think about RSS feeds. Up till this year, most of us thought of RSS feeds as a way to subscribe to single sources of content. But over 2005 it&apos;s become apparent that content is being remixed, mashed up and re-published across many sources - leading to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002745.php&quot;&gt;heated ethical debates&lt;/a&gt; over content rights and confusion amongst publishers on how to &apos;monetize&apos; (sorry I can&apos;t help but use that word) their content. &lt;a href=&quot;http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/11/the_future_of_m.html&quot;&gt;Fred Wilson had a nice post&lt;/a&gt; on this theme recently, entitled The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed).&amp;rdquo; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/&quot;&gt;Read/Write Web&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ask yourself if your library is ready for this type of shift, because overwhelmingly, the answer is no. Librarians just aren&amp;rsquo;t thinking like this yet, and we need to change this. It&amp;rsquo;s at the very core of the whole &amp;ldquo;Library 2.0&amp;rdquo; discussion, and this is why it&amp;rsquo;s so critical. If we keep our content locked up on our own websites and don&amp;rsquo;t get it out there for people to use &lt;em&gt;as they want to use it&lt;/em&gt;, then our content will fall by the wayside.&lt;/p&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/&quot;&gt;The Shifted Librarian&lt;/a&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3892</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:34:14 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/rss.xml">The Shifted Librarian</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3891</link>			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/feeds/feeds/general/2005/08/11/generalvnunet_2005_08_10_eng-vnunet_eng-vnunet_012506_2929839576192963055.html?partner=rss&quot;&gt;Novell scores desktop Linux wins&lt;/a&gt;. Novell has signed an agreement to deliver 1,600 Linux powered desktop computers to high schools in the state of Indiana. [&lt;a href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/a&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3891</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:32:01 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/22.html#a3889</link>			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://osdir.com/Article7925.phtml&quot;&gt;SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 3 Screenshot Tour&lt;/a&gt;. DistroWatch reports - Third alpha release of SUSE Linux 10.1 has been announced and is ready for download. The most important changes include the following: &quot;Update to KDE 3.5 RC1; update of GCC to the current 4.1 development version; removal of linuxthreads support; NetworkManager will be the new way of managing changing network interfaces, Kinternet is now in maintenance mode; update to Linux kernel 2.6.14.2... 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From the article: &quot;Earlier this year, volunteers among the city&apos;s 46,000 staff were invited to download and install open-source software to their desktops, including the Firefox browser and the Open Office.org productivity suite. Now, the city is planning to migrate all the users of one city department or all of those in one of the city&apos;s 20 districts, not just the volunteers, to test a larger migration. The city has 17,000 workstations, up from 12,000 in 2001&quot;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?g=1997&quot;/&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2005/11/21.html#a3883</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:13:11 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot">Slashdot</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/12/02.html#a3857</link>			<description>BBC: &lt;A href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4059291.stm&quot;&gt;Blog picked as word of the year&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;I&gt;Slow news day.&lt;/I&gt; [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/&quot;&gt;Scripting News&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/12/02.html#a3857</guid>			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2004 01:57:17 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml">Scripting News</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/10/27.html#a3846</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&amp;amp;u=/washpost/20041025/tc_washpost/a56161_2004oct23&quot;&gt;Google Desktop Outshines Windows&apos; File-Search Capabilities (washingtonpost.com)&lt;/A&gt;. washingtonpost.com - Google is famed for its Web search engine, but over the past few years it has acquired a different role: Microsoft&apos;s No. 1 foreign aid donor. First, Google fixed some of Internet Explorer&apos;s worst defects with its Google Toolbar, a free add-in that blocks pop-up ads and provides a shortcut to (naturally) Google&apos;s search engine and an auto-fill option to complete Web forms. Now it has released the Google Desktop, another free program that fixes an equally glaring weakness of Windows: its woeful file-searching capabilities. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&amp;amp;cid=738&quot;&gt;Yahoo! News: Technology&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/10/27.html#a3846</guid>			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:54:12 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech">Yahoo! News: Technology</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/10/24.html#a3844</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/24/2157215&quot;&gt;Firefox - The Platform&lt;/A&gt;. Strudelkugel writes &quot;Business 2.0 reports Firefox is becoming a problem for Microsoft. But FF is not just a problem as a browser; its potential as a platform is significant. From the article: &apos;It all adds up to a business opportunity for startups, established software companies, and Web giants alike. Though Ross and the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation don&apos;t stand to make money, Firefox&apos;s open platform gives it enormous potential to hatch a new class of applications that live on the desktop but... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/10/24.html#a3844</guid>			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 05:44:31 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/10/24.html#a3843</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&amp;amp;u=/washpost/20041024/tc_washpost/a56161_2004oct23&quot;&gt;Google Desktop Outshines Windows&apos; File-Search Capabilities (washingtonpost.com)&lt;/A&gt;. washingtonpost.com - Google is famed for its Web search engine, but over the past few years it has acquired a different role: Microsoft&apos;s No. 1 foreign aid donor. First, Google fixed some of Internet Explorer&apos;s worst defects with its Google Toolbar, a free add-in that blocks pop-up ads and provides a shortcut to (naturally) Google&apos;s search engine and an auto-fill option to complete Web forms. Now it has released the Google Desktop, another free program that fixes an equally glaring weakness of Windows: its woeful file-searching capabilities. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&amp;amp;cid=738&quot;&gt;Yahoo! News: Technology&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/10/24.html#a3843</guid>			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 03:14:58 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech">Yahoo! News: Technology</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/10/24.html#a3842</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/54070/Zope.html&quot;&gt;Zope 2.7.3&lt;/A&gt;. Application server for building web sites. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/10/24.html#a3842</guid>			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:25:14 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<title>nixMoneyMachine-Sticking it to the Status Quo!</title>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/01/06.html#a3840</link>			<description>&lt;P&gt;nixMoneyMachine-sticking it to the status quo!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;this new category, came about as&amp;nbsp;a direct result of my disgust with a recent headline about Microsoft releasing a product which has been called an iPod Killer! Fuck it, I have had with this kind of BS, where monopolies that don&apos;t have an innovative fiber in their being, watch the market and wade in after an innovator like Apple creates it out of nothing, and then ends up&amp;nbsp;losing it, just because of the monoolie&apos;s&amp;nbsp;sheer size and money reserves!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Microsoft did this against the Mac, then against Netscape! Do we as consumers have to keep supporting greedy monopolies!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I remember when Mosaic first came out and for me the Internet was a place where the little guy could innovate and create a decent living, and in some cases create fortunes based upon creativity, hard work and luck! The iPod Killer headline is so cynical, and it assumes that the only thing the consumer cares about is money, and that the only thing the producer concerns themselves with is money too!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Well how bout this, why don&apos;t we come up with some truly innovative business models that put the power in the hands of the content producer, and in the process create cheaper content, get more people producing digital content, and get more developing nations into the digital economy as well!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Accoring to Robert Young found of Red Hat: &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&quot;You can&apos;t compete with a monopoly by playing the game by the monopolist&apos;s rules.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Well fuck the old models, the old rules and the old approach to operating systems, software and digital content!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have just had it with this bullshit, and this is what nixMoneyMachine is about, proposing new economic models to stick it to the status quo!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Stay tuned!&lt;/P&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2004/01/06.html#a3840</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:16:36 GMT</pubDate>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/29.html#a3802</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/29/2042238&quot;&gt;Embedded Linux VPN Router Near Release&lt;/A&gt;. An anonymous reader writes &quot;A new open source project aims to build a VPN router that supports all major routing protocols on a standardized hardware platform ... 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That said though you will really want to read the &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113746,00.asp&quot;&gt;article,&lt;/A&gt; and track the wouldbe Linux user&apos;s switch or not story.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But to me this seems like a cop out, if after a month you choose to stick with Linux, I would say you by your actions have already made the choice!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/29.html#a3799</guid>			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:13:14 GMT</pubDate>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/26.html#a3761</link>			<description>&lt;P&gt;Talk About Perverse Irony Brought To You&amp;nbsp;By MIT!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;the following &lt;A href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/12/01#a3081&quot;&gt;Phillip Greenspun article&lt;/A&gt; should be a wakeup call for all computer science students!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Well worth considering, as good paying programming jobs go down the outsourced to India hole!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;H3 class=newsItemtitle&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_49/b3861001_mz001.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#920011&gt;Outsourcing to India in Business Week and at MIT...&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;DIV class=newsItemDesc&gt;&lt;P&gt;Not all of our students will see &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_49/b3861001_mz001.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#920011&gt;this cover story in Business Week&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt; on the migration of high-paying jobs to India.&amp;nbsp; But most attended a lecture in &lt;A href=&quot;http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/one-term-web&quot;&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#920011&gt;6.171&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt; by the folks who run MIT&apos;s latest big IT effort:&amp;nbsp; OpenCourseware (&lt;A href=&quot;http://ocw.mit.edu/&quot;&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://ocw.mit.edu/&quot;&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#920011&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ocw.mit.edu&quot;&gt;http://ocw.mit.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/A&gt;), which distributes syllabi, problem sets, and other materials from MIT classes (at least one semester after the class is actually given).&amp;nbsp; During the lecture the students learned that, although ocw.mit.edu is a purely static .html site, it is produced with a database-backed content management system.&amp;nbsp; In fact, of the $11 million donated by foundations to support the service, about $2 million was spent on technology and the salaries of folks at MIT who oversee the technology.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The more sophisticated portion of ocw.mit.edu is a 100 percent Microsoft show.&amp;nbsp; A student asks the speakers why they chose Microsoft Content Management Server, expecting to hear a story about careful in-house technical evaluation done by people sort of like them.&amp;nbsp; The answer:&amp;nbsp; &quot;We read a Gartner Group report that said the Microsoft system was the simplest to use among the commercial vendors and that open-source toolkits weren&apos;t worth considering.&quot;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Students began to wake up.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A PowerPoint slide contained the magic word &quot;Delhi&quot;.&amp;nbsp; It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseware was done in India, either by Sapient, MIT&apos;s main contractor for the project, or by a handful of Microsoft India employees who helped set up the Content Management Server.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thus did students who are within months of graduating with their $160,000 computer science degrees learn how modern information systems are actually built, even by institutions that earn much of their revenue from educating American software developers.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/12/01#a3081&quot;&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#924547&gt;#&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt; Posted by &lt;A href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/profiles/$1&quot;&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#920011&gt;Philip Greenspun&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt; on 12/1/03; 10:57:50 AM - &lt;A class=commentLink title=&quot;Click to comment on this post...&quot; onclick=&quot;window.open (this.href, &apos;comments&apos;, &apos;width=515, height=480, location=0, resizable=1, scrollbars=1, status=0, toolbar=0, directories=0&apos;); return(false);&quot; href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/comments?u=philg&amp;amp;p=3081&amp;amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.law.harvard.edu%2Fphilg%2F2003%2F12%2F01%23a3081&quot;&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#920011&gt;Comments [22]&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;A class=commentLink onclick=&quot;window.open (this.href, &apos;comments&apos;, &apos;width=515, height=480, location=0, resizable=1, scrollbars=1, status=0, toolbar=0, directories=0&apos;); return(false);&quot; href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/newsItems/trackback/?u=philg&amp;amp;p=3081&amp;amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.law.harvard.edu%2Fphilg%2F2003%2F12%2F01%23a3081&quot;&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#920011&gt;Trackback [2]&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 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The changes include basic ... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/25.html#a3758</guid>			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2003 02:14:16 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss">Slashdot</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/25.html#a3755</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/25/1420246&quot;&gt;LWN.net Linux Timeline 2003&lt;/A&gt;. Ridgelift writes &quot;Linux Weekly News have released Linux Timeline 2003, their annual year in review of the top stories around Linux and the Open Source ... 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News - Technology&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/24.html#a3751</guid>			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:20:09 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech">Yahoo! 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Having abandones any actual tradition or culture of their own, they fill the void with a couple of &amp;lt; href=&quot;http://www.utne.com/&quot;&amp;gt;&lt;CITE&gt;Utne Reader&lt;/CITE&gt;&lt;/A&gt; platitudes, a mild revulsion for anything even vaguely Judeo-Christian, even if it aligns with their beliefs, a pro-pot slant and a half-formed belief in eye-for-eye karmic payback. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Standing for almost nothing, they tend to fall for just about anything. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Chris Baldwin&apos;s summed it up pretty handily -- and perhaps unintentionally -- in a &lt;CITE&gt;Bruno&lt;/CITE&gt; comic from last year: &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IMG height=472 alt=&quot;Photo: Bruno whining (what else is new?) about Christmas.&quot; src=&quot;http://accordionguy.blogware.com/Photos/2003/12/bruno_christmas_comic.gif&quot; width=332&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;To borrow the line about Klansmen and Martin Luther King Day: &lt;EM&gt;C&apos;mon, Bruno, how hardcore a secularist must you be to not want a day off?&lt;/EM&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Of course, those of us who celebrate Christmas would argue the exact opposite: here we took a beautiful Christian holdiay and destroyed it through corportization and &quot;We&apos;re white, we&apos;re straight, we&apos;re &lt;EM&gt;sorry!&lt;/EM&gt;&quot; guilt. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;(There&apos;s a &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4612/lp-obj.html&quot;&gt;Randroid&lt;/A&gt; who would take another tack and say &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/xmas.html&quot;&gt;&quot;here we took a beautiful commerical holiday and destroyed it in usual religious fashion.&quot;&lt;/A&gt; Haven&apos;t we developed some kind of &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.aynrand.org/aynrand/biography.shtml&quot;&gt;Ayn Rand&lt;/A&gt; repellent yet?) &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In the end, I believe that &lt;EM&gt;intent&lt;/EM&gt; counts. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I&apos;m certain there is no malice, no implicit &quot;convert or die&quot; message and no forcing of one&apos;s beliefs on others when someone wishes someone else a Happy Chanukah, Eid, Diwali, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia, Tet or even Festivus, the actions of certain vicious zealots notwithstanding. Balanced minds do not see any implied Hitler overtones at Oktoberfest nor Hirohito/Tojo insinuations at the sushi house, and neither do they see the Crusades in Christmas. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;When people say &quot;Merry Christmas&quot;, most of them are really saying &quot;Happy Holidays, and I&apos;m celebrating them Christmas-style. You do your thing, and I&apos;ll do mine. Come by for drinks.&quot; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;That what &lt;EM&gt;I&apos;m&lt;/EM&gt; really saying, anyways. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;No matter what you believe, enjoy the break from the hustle and bustle of 21st century life. Be nice to each other. Hug someone you love. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Merry Christmas, everyone. &lt;/DIV&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/24.html#a3748</guid>			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:54:48 GMT</pubDate>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/23.html#a3727</link>			<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/news.php&quot;&gt;Linux Toys Projects&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/A&gt;check this out if you want some projects for you and your kids&lt;/P&gt;&lt;DIV class=caption&gt;&lt;B&gt;Linux Toys Projects&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV class=bodytable&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?6.0&quot;&gt;Music Jukebox&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?7.0&quot;&gt;Home Video Archive&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?8.0&quot;&gt;TV Recorder/Player&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?13.0&quot;&gt;Arcade Game Player&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?9.0&quot;&gt;Home Network Server&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?10.0&quot;&gt;Home Broadcast Center&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?11.0&quot;&gt;Temperature Monitor&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?12.0&quot;&gt;Digital Receptionist&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?16.0&quot;&gt;Mini ISP&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?14.0&quot;&gt;Web Hosting Service&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?15.0&quot;&gt;Doghouse Linux/BSD Games&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?17.0&quot;&gt;Toy Car Controller&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoys.net/article.php?18.0&quot;&gt;Digital Picture Frame&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/23.html#a3727</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:59:41 GMT</pubDate>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/22.html#a3720</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/2003/12/19/bestof2003.html&quot;&gt;O&apos;Reilly&apos;s Best of 2003&lt;/A&gt;. This year we published nearly 100 feature-length articles by O&apos;Reilly book authors. Based on visitor statistics, we&apos;ve come up with our top 10 most popular articles of 2003. But wait, there&apos;s more. We&apos;ve also gathered our favorite tips pieces of the year. And where would we be without the books themselves? So we&apos;ve also compiled a list of the year&apos;s top-sellers. What&apos;s wrong with a little shameless, year-end promotion? Enjoy. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/&quot;&gt;O&apos;Reilly Network Articles&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/22.html#a3720</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:00:10 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/xml/query/q/295?x-ver=1.0">O&apos;Reilly Network Articles</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/22.html#a3719</link>			<description>&lt;TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width=&quot;98%&quot; border=0&gt;&lt;TBODY&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=left colSpan=3&gt;&lt;B&gt;&lt;IMG height=38 alt=&quot;American Museum of Natural History&quot; src=&quot;http://www.dothill.com/images/case_studies/amnh.gif&quot; width=426 border=0&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right rowSpan=6&gt;&lt;IMG height=8 src=&quot;http://www.dothill.com/images/spacer.gif&quot; width=25&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=right bgColor=#ebebeb rowSpan=6&gt;&lt;DIV align=right&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=1&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&amp;igrave;We conducted a very comprehensive evaluation, and Dot Hill&amp;iacute;s SANnet was the best performing, most cost-effective solution for our requirements.&quot; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=1&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;B&gt;-- &lt;/B&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;B&gt;Joseph Anino&lt;BR&gt;Technology Director&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=left width=&quot;4%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=left colSpan=2&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;American Museum of Natural History&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;New York, NY&lt;BR&gt;Largest Natural History Museum in the World&lt;BR&gt;&lt;IMG height=4 alt=divider src=&quot;http://www.dothill.com/images/icons/div_dot.gif&quot; width=333 vspace=3 border=0&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Located in Central Park in New York City, the American Museum of Natural History is the largest natural history museum in the world with over 32 million specimens and artifacts. It is home to vast collections of insects, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, anthropological artifacts, and more fossil mammals and dinosaurs than any other museum in the world. The museum employs over 200 scientists and has one of the largest natural history libraries in the Western Hemisphere.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD vAlign=top align=left colSpan=3&gt;&lt;IMG height=35 alt=&quot;Business need&quot; src=&quot;http://www.dothill.com/images/titles/cs_business_need.gif&quot; width=250 vspace=2 border=0 name=business_needs&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;4%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD colSpan=2&gt;Digitize the entire museum collection. They are creating electronic records of archaeologists&amp;iacute; journals and notes for the past 100 years.&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD colSpan=3&gt;&lt;IMG height=35 alt=Challenges src=&quot;http://www.dothill.com/images/titles/cs_challenge.gif&quot; width=250 border=0 name=challenges&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;4%&quot; height=65&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;2%&quot; height=65&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;70%&quot; height=65&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Scalability-need to grow from 1TB to 35TB as entire collection is catalogued &lt;LI&gt;Heterogeneous environment using Solaris and NT &lt;LI&gt;Cost-effective with high performance &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD colSpan=5 height=42&gt;&lt;IMG height=35 alt=&quot;Dot Hill Solution&quot; src=&quot;http://www.dothill.com/images/titles/cs_solution.gif&quot; width=250 border=0 name=solution&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;4%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD colSpan=2&gt;SANnet 4220 storage system and expansion chassis in a heterogeneous storage area network with Sun servers running Solaris and other servers running Windows NT.&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;3%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;21%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;4%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;2%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;70%&quot;&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Excellent price/performance ratio &lt;LI&gt;Scalable, modular architecture to add capacity with virtually no downtime &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;3%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;21%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;4%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD colSpan=4&gt;SANpath storage networking software&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;4%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;2%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD colSpan=3&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Ensures continuous data availability through parallel active storage paths &lt;LI&gt;Peak performance through load balancing capabilities &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;4%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD colSpan=4&gt;SANscape SAN management software &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;TR&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;4%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;2%&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;TD width=&quot;70%&quot;&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Powerful easy-to-use GUI &lt;LI&gt;Manage SAN from a single console &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/22.html#a3719</guid>			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:54:42 GMT</pubDate>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/22.html#a3718</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/738/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&amp;amp;u=/ibd/20031222/bs_ibd_ibd/20031222tech&quot;&gt;IBM, Others Pushing Linux Onto Desktop (Investor&apos;s Business Daily)&lt;/A&gt;. Investor&apos;s Business Daily - Despite Linux&apos;s steady march into servers, the renegade operating system hasn&apos;t made much of a dent in the personal computer market - where Microsoft Corp.&apos;s Windows has ruled for more than a decade. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&amp;amp;cid=738&quot;&gt;Yahoo! News - Technology&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/22.html#a3718</guid>			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:21:43 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech">Yahoo! News - Technology</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/21.html#a3706</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/21/1546240&quot;&gt;Microsoft asks Linux users, &quot;How can we get your business?&apos;&lt;/A&gt;. Microsoft has started distributing two online surveys to Linux User Groups and Linux users in general, one asking primarily about home computer use, the other about business use. They apparently don&apos;t plan to release the results of their surveys, so we and other people in the open source community are asking you to look at them and post your answers and comments here and on other appropriate sites where, in open source style, everyone can see them. Read on for more information and links, and ple... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/21.html#a3706</guid>			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:23:47 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/19.html#a3681</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.osdir.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;amp;name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=198&quot;&gt;The 2003 OSDir.com Editor&apos;s Choice Awards in Open Source&lt;/A&gt;. I&apos;m very pleased to present the first annual OSDir.com Editor&apos;s Choice Awards in Open Source. As I&apos;m sure you know, Dear Reader, it&apos;s always tough to sit down and choose a definite favorite application. There are usually many deserving projects in each category in which someone might ask you to recommend the absolute best. Myself... I like to move around from app to app just to see what I might be missing. ... You&apos;ll see that there are a few more awards than you might be used to seeing, but I&apos;v... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/19.html#a3681</guid>			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:51:21 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/18.html#a3669</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/18/internet_gateway2.html&quot;&gt;Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway, Part 2&lt;/A&gt;. Internet access is vital to many small businesses. Maintaining a reliable and worry-free connection may seem difficult, but several good monitoring tools exist to simplify the lives of administrators. Alexander Prohorenko explains how to serve DNS and monitor a small network. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/&quot;&gt;O&apos;Reilly Network Web Services DevCenter&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/18.html#a3669</guid>			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:13:28 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/xml/query/q/295?x-ver=1.0">O&apos;Reilly Network Web Services DevCenter</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/17.html#a3646</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/17/1517223&quot;&gt;City Of Austin Migrating To OpenOffice.org&lt;/A&gt;. An anonymous reader writes &quot;NewsForge.com has a story up this morning about the City of Austin and the results of their pilot program on OpenOffice.org. The ... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/17.html#a3646</guid>			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2003 06:26:48 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss">Slashdot</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/17.html#a3629</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.syndic8.com/feedinfo.php?FeedID=39951&quot;&gt;All 4 Linux dotcom&lt;/A&gt;. All4Linux.com News [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.syndic8.com&quot;&gt;Recently approved feeds from Syndic8.com&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/17.html#a3629</guid>			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:52:01 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.syndic8.com/boxrss.php?Box=RecentFeeds&amp;amp;amp;amp;N=5">Recently approved feeds from Syndic8.com</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/17.html#a3625</link>			<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://boinc.berkeley.edu/&quot;&gt;Berkley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing-BOINC&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;from their website:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computer resources. The BOINC&apos;s features fall into several areas: &lt;H3&gt;Resource sharing among independent projects&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;P&gt;Many different projects can use BOINC. Projects are independent; each one operates its own servers and databases. However, projects can share resources in the following sense: Participants install a &lt;B&gt;core client&lt;/B&gt; program which in turn downloads and executes project-specific application programs. Participants control which projects they participate in, and how their resources are divided among these projects. When a project is down or has no work, the resources of its participants are divided among the other projects in which the participants are registered. &lt;/P&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/17.html#a3625</guid>			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:48:48 GMT</pubDate>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/16.html#a3623</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?r109975426&quot;&gt;Novell moving deeper into Linux&lt;/A&gt;. ZDNet Australia Dec 16 2003 9:22PM ET... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/16.html#a3623</guid>			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2003 03:45:57 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/16.html#a3620</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/2121201&quot;&gt;Xandros version 2&lt;/A&gt;. An anonymous reader writes &quot;Xandros is now shipping version 2 of their Desktop Linux distro and it&apos;s also possible to purchase a download version. Based on ... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/16.html#a3620</guid>			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2003 00:42:45 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss">Slashdot</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/15.html#a3578</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/0119206&quot;&gt;Multiplayer Linux Games&lt;/A&gt;. gooshy1 writes &quot;Ok it&apos;s getting near the end of the year and people are beginning to wind down for the holidays. What I want to know is are there any decent ... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/15.html#a3578</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2003 05:42:13 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss">Slashdot</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/14.html#a3566</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7489042.htm&quot;&gt;Dan Gillmor&lt;/A&gt;: &quot;China is adopting open-source software in a big way.&quot; [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/&quot;&gt;Scripting News&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/14.html#a3566</guid>			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:24:30 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.scripting.com/rss.xml">Scripting News</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/14.html#a3564</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/14/0050224&quot;&gt;Archos Recorder + Rockbox Plays Video&lt;/A&gt;. elinenbe writes &quot;Rockbox, the open source firmware for the Archos Recorder, Player, FM, Recorder V2, and now the Neo can play grayscale videos at over 60FPS. A ... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/14.html#a3564</guid>			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2003 20:47:40 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/14.html#a3561</link>			<description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Can&amp;iacute;t find the perfect gift for someone special this holiday? Give them the gift of software freedom: &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Downl&lt;IMG alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.pricoinsa.es/linux/Knoppix.png&quot; border=0&gt;oad the free &lt;SPAN class=caps&gt;GNU &lt;/SPAN&gt;Knoppix and burn some yuletide cheer!&amp;nbsp; The Communiqu&amp;Egrave; is proud to offer the &lt;A title=&quot;Download Knoppix over the OCN; Java required&quot; href=&quot;http://www.teledyn.com/node/view/418&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#378ce0&gt;English edition &lt;SPAN class=caps&gt;ISO&lt;/SPAN&gt; image of Knoppix 3.3&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; (2003-11-19), and &lt;U&gt;as an added special bonus&lt;/U&gt; &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.teledyn.com/pub/linux/knoppix-v3.3-2003-11.19-8694CD.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#378ce0&gt;download a ready-made CD label in &lt;SPAN class=caps&gt;PDF&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; for the 8694 format from &lt;A title=&quot;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.avery.com/us/print/index.html&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#378ce0&gt;Avery-Print&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; (or you can do your own)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;I&gt;Knoppix 3.3 is a fully-functioning multimedia Debian-based &lt;SPAN class=caps&gt;GNU&lt;/SPAN&gt;/Linux bootable filesystem on CD featuring: &lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Linux-Kernel 2.4.22 &lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN class=caps&gt;KDE V3&lt;/SPAN&gt;.1 with K Office and the Konqueror browser &lt;LI&gt;X Multimedia System (xmms) for &lt;SPAN class=caps&gt;MPEG&lt;/SPAN&gt;-video, &lt;SPAN class=caps&gt;MP3&lt;/SPAN&gt; and Ogg Vorbis &lt;LI&gt;Internet connection via kppp, pppoeconf (DSL) and isdn-config &lt;LI&gt;Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 1.2 &lt;LI&gt;Utilities for data recovery and system repairs, even for other operating systems &lt;LI&gt;Network and security analysis tools &lt;LI&gt;OpenOffice&amp;ocirc; 1.1 office suite &lt;LI&gt;many programming languages, &lt;SPAN class=caps&gt;RAD&lt;/SPAN&gt; tools and libraries &lt;LI&gt;over 900 packages with over 2000 programs, utilities, and games &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;In short, a &lt;U&gt;complete&lt;/U&gt; GNU desktop demo that runs direct from the CD without disk partitioning or installation. They just insert the disk, reboot and enjoy!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;SMALL&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;note: other localized editions are available at &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.knopper.net/knoppix&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#378ce0 size=2&gt;The Knoppix Homepage&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt; where you can also &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:6969/&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#378ce0 size=2&gt;download by BitTorrent&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SMALL&gt;&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/14.html#a3561</guid>			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:45:23 GMT</pubDate>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/13.html#a3545</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://redir.internet.com/rss/ipw/products.datamation.com/dms/rdbms/1069010726.html&quot;&gt;Access2MySQL Sync - Converter/Synchronizer&lt;/A&gt;. Bi-directional convertion and synchronization of MS Access and MySQL databases [&lt;A href=&quot;http://products.datamation.com&quot;&gt;New Entries at Datamation Product Watch&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/13.html#a3545</guid>			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2003 07:22:40 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://headlines.internet.com/internetnews/ipw/news.rss ">New Entries at Datamation Product Watch</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/12.html#a3516</link>			<description>&lt;P&gt;Linux Flight Simulator&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/11/flightgear.html&quot;&gt;Flying the Open Skies with FlightGear&lt;/A&gt;. Realms of geographic data are entering public use every day. Mappers, hikers, and navigators love it. What&apos;s in it for the rest of us? Realistic flight simulators. That&apos;s what pilots, aeronautical engineers, and enthusiasts are building with FlightGear, a GPL&apos;d flight sim. Howard Wen talks to the creator and the maintainers. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/&quot;&gt;O&apos;Reilly Network Articles&lt;/A&gt;]&lt;/P&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/12.html#a3516</guid>			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:12:23 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/xml/query/q/295?x-ver=1.0">O&apos;Reilly Network Articles</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/09.html#a3509</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://boingboing.net/2003_12_01_archive.html#107088638968629286&quot;&gt;How many years does an Azeri have to work to buy a copy of WinXP?&lt;/A&gt;. Over at FirstMonday, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh has published a table showing how many years an average wage-earner in various countries around the world will have to work if they are to buy a copy of Windows. &lt;P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;Country GDP/cap PCs (&apos;000s) Piracy WinXP Cost [3] Effective $ GDP months Albania 1300 24 n.a. 15196 5.17 Algeria 1773 220 n.a. 11140 3.79 Angola 701 17 n.a. 28184 9.59 Argentina 7166 3415 62% 2757 0.94 Armenia 686 24 n.a. 28806 9.80 Australia 19019 10000 27% 1039 0.35 Austria 23186 2727 33% 852 0.29 Azerbaijan 688 n.a. n.a. 28708 9.77&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ghosh/index.html&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/A&gt; [&lt;A href=&quot;http://boingboing.net/&quot;&gt;Boing Boing Blog&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/09.html#a3509</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:34:57 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://boingboing.net/rss.xml">Boing Boing Blog</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/09.html#a3502</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&amp;amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/08/HNobjectweb_1.html&quot;&gt;ObjectWeb, Apache team on open source J2EE&lt;/A&gt;. ObjectWeb and the Apache Software Foundation, which each develop an open-source Java application server, have reached a technology-sharing agreement designed to accelerate certification of their products under Sun Microsystems&apos;s latest J2EE standard. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/news/index.html&quot;&gt;InfoWorld: Top News&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/09.html#a3502</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:27:53 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.infoworld.com/rss/news.rdf">InfoWorld: Top News</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/09.html#a3500</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-12-09-008-26-NW-RL&quot;&gt;DistroWatch: Distributions, December 8, 2003&lt;/A&gt;. Today&apos;s distributions: MEPIS Linux 2003.10.01, Lorma Linux 4, CRUX 1.3, Vine Linux 2.6r3, BLAG 9001, Feather Linux 0.2.1, SmoothWall Express 2.0, and Damn Small Linux 0.5.1. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/09.html#a3500</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:26:31 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/09.html#a3499</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=5818&quot;&gt;Lindows Defends Netherlands Resellers&lt;/A&gt;. 9 Dec 2003: Lindows.com today launched ChoicePC, a rallying point for citizens of the Netherlands who object to the Microsoft Corporation&apos;s threats of legal action against Dutch resellers who are offering Lindows.com products. &quot;There is a real battle happening in the Netherlands,&amp;#172;&amp;icirc; said Michael Robertson. &amp;#172;&amp;igrave;The richest company in the world is trying to block choice and maintain their monopoly by intimidating smaller companies, just as they tried to do in the United States. I am... [&lt;A href=&quot;http://meerkat.oreillynet.com&quot;&gt;Meerkat: An Open Wire Service&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/09.html#a3499</guid>			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:25:33 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/?_fl=rss&amp;t=ALL&amp;c=5526">Meerkat: An Open Wire Service</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/08.html#a3490</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/08/2157248&quot;&gt;SmoothWall 2.0 Linux-Based Firewall Released&lt;/A&gt;. thegraham writes &quot;Despite some earlier server problems, SmoothWall 2.0 has been released this evening - there are also release notes available. SmoothWall is ... 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Is has been built upon &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/&quot;&gt;web services&lt;/A&gt; and the &lt;A href=&quot;http://web.mit.edu/oki/&quot;&gt;Open Knowledge Initiative&lt;/A&gt; project standards.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ilearn was started as a collaboration between MIT and Microsoft through the &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/icampus/index.html&quot;&gt;iCampus&lt;/A&gt; initiative.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The first release can be downloaded from &lt;A href=&quot;http://ilearn.mit.edu/releases/&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If you&apos;re interested in helping to develop iLearn, please &lt;A href=&quot;mailto:aegrumet@mit.edu&quot;&gt;contact us&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/07.html#a3479</guid>			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2003 23:02:48 GMT</pubDate>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/06.html#a3467</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32301.html&quot;&gt;Linux Desktops are coming, LinuxInsider reports&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;P&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32301.html&quot;&gt;LinuxInsider says&lt;/A&gt; that next year Linux is going to make big inroads on the desktop.&lt;/P&gt;[&lt;A href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/&quot;&gt;The Scobleizer Weblog&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/06.html#a3467</guid>			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2003 02:53:32 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/rss.xml">The Scobleizer Weblog</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/04.html#a3445</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&amp;amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/04/HNsuseibmcenter_1.html&quot;&gt;SuSE Linux, IBM launch software integration center&lt;/A&gt;. Enterprises needing server software support from SuSE Linux AG running on IBM Corp. middleware can turn to a new software integration center launched Thursday in Toronto by the two vendors. [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/news/index.html&quot;&gt;InfoWorld: Top News&lt;/A&gt;]</description>			<guid>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/12/04.html#a3445</guid>			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2003 05:30:47 GMT</pubDate>			<source url="http://www.infoworld.com/rss/news.rdf">InfoWorld: Top News</source>			</item>		<item>			<link>http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/linux/2003/11/30.html#a3412</link>			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/30/1630200&quot;&gt;Novell&apos;s Certified Linux Engineer&lt;/A&gt;. AEnertia writes &quot;Novell have been quick in moving ahead with their recent aquisition of SuSE. I was browsing their site when I found this page describing their ... 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