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  • Ubuntu Linux leader proposes six-week delay

    New versions of Ubuntu Linux have been released at a steady six-month cadence, but project founder Mark Shuttleworth is considering a six-week delay to improve the reliability of an important new version.

  • Second-tier Linux makers release new products

    Mandriva and Ubuntu, two significant but second-tier versions of Linux, each released major updates on Thursday.

  • One city's move to open source

    In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.

  • Sun promises to open-source Java

    Sun Microsystems will open-source Java, it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said on Tuesday.

  • Red Hat releases newest Fedora

    Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualisation, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development.

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  • Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

    Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

  • One city's move to open source

    In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.

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