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Google Labs has released Picasa for Linux, ported using Wine by CodeWeavers . The free Picasa download is available now. My Take : The software requirements are fairly hefty in that some features require cutting edge programs like HAL and a 2.6+ kernel, but this is fantastic news for Linux users.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Apr 2006 20:43 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"All too often the desktop operating system market is looked upon as some sort of epic struggle between Microsoft and Linux. This 'versus' mentality is fun to perpetuate, it is not helping anyone in the long run . Since it is clear that each party is going to be around for a long time, what is needed a bit of mannerly coexistence.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Sep 2005 14:25 UTC
"Novell today announced SUSE Linux 10.0 will be available in retail and online stores in early October 2005. SUSE Linux 10.0 is uniquely designed among Linux distributions to create an easy, user-friendly experience, delivering everything that enthusiasts and home users need to get started with Linux."

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Lots of news on SkyOS . Kaffe using GNU Classpath (without AWT) is now working fine on SkyOS, just like Wine. Although there is no Wine graphics driver yet, you can already start Windows console applications directly from within SkyOS (once a Wine/SkyGI backend is available Wine should run on SkyOS as good as it does on Linux, and will be available via Software Store).

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Nov 2006 10:55 UTC, submitted by Jean Claude
French députés' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software. There will be 1154 French parliamentary workstations running on an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:00 UTC
Proponents of the free and open-source software development model are using the recently announced delays in the shipping of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 products as an example of how the company's software engineering process simply does not work well . They are also pointing to how it stands in direct contrast with the way software gets developed in the free and open-source ...

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Apr 2007 20:39 UTC
The developers behind Etoile have discussed their future plans for the project recently, and have provided a summary of the discussion on the mailing list.

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Transgaming has announced Cider, their WINE-based gaming virtualization for Intel Macs. This is similar to their previous Cedega software, which served as a way to play Windows games on Linux.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Jan 2007 23:16 UTC
"While the eyes of the IT world have spent years squinting to see Microsoft's slowly unfolding vistas, the companies and individuals that drive open source have been steadily building a case for broader adoption of Linux-based operating systems . Two of the best all-around Linux distributions to emerge from this process are OpenSUSE 10.2 and Ubuntu 6.10, both of which bundle together the best of ...

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