| Ubuntu Linux: The Easy Installation Guide Ubuntu Linux 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex, is the most popular Linux distribution available for installing on your PC, thanks to its steadily improving hardware compatibility and installation software, along with a wealth of free applications and utilities that run on any version of Linux. New versions of Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE When you're talking Linux, three big names always pop up: Canonical's Ubuntu, Novell's openSUSE and Red Hat's Fedora. Ubuntu has ridden a groundswell of both consumer and commercial support to its current ranking as the most popular Linux distribution. OpenSUSE, with its business underpinnings, has always been popular in Europe and has been making inroads in the U.S. And it is largely thanks to Fedora that Red Hat has become the biggest Linux company with a major role in community Linux. IBM finalizing free Symphony office suite for Macs Taking aim at the Microsoft Office franchise on the Macintosh , IBM announced Tuesday that its free Lotus Symphony suite of personal productivity applications will come out of beta for the Apple hardware platform later this month. Red Hat offers 18-month term for enterprise maintenance Red Hat Thursday unveiled a new service aimed at making it more cost-effective for its customers to run and maintain one version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a longer period of time, reducing management and administration costs, the company said. IE lost share to Firefox, Safari and Chrome in December Web sites saw visitors deserting Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser in favor of Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome in December, according to Web analytics company Net Applications. Open source success due to Microsoft, claims report The success of open source software is now being driven by its rapid commercialization and not simply its appeal to evangelistic developers, a new report has suggested. OpenSUSE gets more open with new user license and build service Novell's openSUSE project is becoming more open, as a new release due out Thursday includes licensing changes that make it easier to redistribute the Linux operating system, and a build service that will encourage more contributions from open source developers. BBC iPlayer now available on Mac and Linux Mac and Linux versions of BBC iPlayer are now available, after the BBC finally made the online TV tool available for operating systems other than Windows. Microsoft releases free Office-ODF interoperability guides Microsoft will publish technical documents on Tuesday describing how it built support for the rival Open Document Format (ODF) within Office 2007 . Microsoft promises ODF support in Office 2007 SP2, kinda sorta Microsoft released technical documents describing plans to implement ODF in Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (to ship in 2009) but left itself some loopholes. Red Hat invests in open-source BI vendor JasperSoft Linux distributor Red Hat invested in open-source business-intelligence vendor JasperSoft on Wednesday as part of a $12.5 million round of funding for the company. Mozilla security chief calls it quits Window Snyder, the head of security at Mozilla, will resign her position at the end of the year, she said in a blog post Wednesday. Freescale chases $199 netbook with new processor Freescale on Monday is expected to announce a new processor for netbooks that may challenge chip maker Intel on price in the low-cost computing space. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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