A Linux Networx super cluster is now part of the technology arsenal at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), a company that exists solely to provide warheads for the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent program. But AWE isn't done looking at different solutions for its ever-increasing computational power needs.

First International Computer (FIC) says its new full-function webpad is powerful enough "to truly marshal the possibilities of a wireless world."

An open-source software vendor is petitioning the Australian consumer watchdog to make it possible for all name-brand PC resellers to sell systems without an operating system on board.

Many small businesses think the servers they use all run Windows operating systems, but many file server appliances (NetApps and Snap, for example) are Linux-based systems using Samba for interoperability with their Windows or Mac clients.

Every year, during the summer holidays, I regularly download the source code of the new version of KDE desktop that is in the works and compile and test it.

The test period for Mandriva Linux 2006 has now officially begun with the first beta available.

Last week, CodeWeavers issued a "Installer Challenge" to improve Wine "until it can run nearly every Windows program."

This interview focuses on Jeff Bates's experience in developing and managing SourceForge.net and Slashdot communities. It sheds light on encouraging the interest of participants in the open source community. He discusses important technology considerations toward aiding distributed software development efforts.

The Linux User Show #8 is online now. This week Kelly Penguin Girl and I take a look at the various places where you can get help. From the MAN pages to websites, it's all there.

Held in London last Saturday, OpenTech 2005 was an informal, low-cost conference about open technologies and content. Attendees ranged from BSD hackers to digital rights activists, from mapping enthusiasts to staff from the BBC.

MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, has announced that it has just completed the best quarter (April-June) in the company's ten-year history.

While commercial distributions of open source may be ready for prime time, experts agree that it may be a few years yet before it can be fully adopted into IT health-care systems.

Nokia’s practically synonymous with Symbian (they own 47.9% of the company which oversees the mobile OS and release 70% of the Symbian-powered smartphones each year)...

Distrowatch reports - A new version of Puppy Linux is out: "Puppy Linux version 1.0.4 is released. The great news for this release is the Puppy live CD now has Gnumeric, the premier Linux spreadsheet editor. This is version 1.4.3 and includes the full set of plugins. MUT (Media Utility Tool) version 0.0.5 is now in Puppy. This is a greatly enhanced drive mount/unmount alternative to Pmount. Printing support has been improved, with a patched AFPL Ghostscript version 8.51 and a patched AbiWord version 2.2.7...

OSDir has the shots of this fresh Puppy.

Lawyers for employers have begun the processes of attempting to own all thoughts, words, concepts and knowledge that an employee gains or possesses during the length of their employment at a company.

Distrowatch reports - SLAX 5.0.6, complete with KDE 3.4.1 and KOffice 1.4.0, has been released: "It's my pleasure to let you know that SLAX 5.0.6 is available for download, together with all the special editions. The most important changes include: added Linux Kernel 2.6.12.2 with ALSA sound drivers 1.0.9b; added better default GTK2 theme, so all GTK2 applications will look nicer...

OSDir has put together a series of screenshots of the latest SLAX offering.

If you're not already familiar with Asterisk, it's primarily a Linux based PBX (Private Branch eXchange) that supports multiple telephone company related hardware cards, such as the Digium TE110P and X100P, plus Voice over IP (VoIP). (For more information, check out http://www.asterisk.org.)

The Midgard Project has released the stable version of the Midgard Open Source Content Management System. Midgard's 1.7 release is a major overhaul of the whole Content Management System.

Everyone wants a quick boot time, from the beginner user to the advanced user, this is a issue that bothers us all. As Linux has advanced it has increasingly become slower to boot.

Sun Microsystems has distributed more than two million registered licenses for the Solaris 10 Operating System since the software became available on Jan. 31.

I invite everyone interested to join the Utnubu Team. Utnubu stands for doing what Ubuntu does, just the other way around:

This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Fedora Core 4 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters...

The development effort for Mobilis, a Linux-based mobile desktop from India, was supported by a 30 million rupee (US$700,000) grant from that country's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

In an effort to restart, the LinuxFund credit card program, intended to benefit the Linux and open source community, has named a new executive director and announced it will begin funding open source projects again.

The continued commercialisation of Linux is helping Microsoft defend its Windows patch against the rising tide of open source, claims the head of Redmond's competitive strategy efforts.

The final day of the Ottawa Linux symposium was highlighted by this year's keynote address, delivered by Red Hat's lead Linux kernel developer, Dave Jones.

A concerted effort by business and economic development leaders to raise Oregon's visibility as a center for open-source activity is gaining momentum, but hasn't quite made it over the hump.

Developers working on open-source projects for business need to think beyond the technology and develop new ways of approaching the business issues of software development.

Distrowatch reports - Damn Small Linux 1.3 has been released. Here are some excerpts from the changelog: "Created an icon layout manager for xtdesk; improved icon and menu persistence with extensions; created a GUI date/time tool; created a frugal GRUB install script; replaced rxvt with aterm and added transparency xshell options; updated naim; reduced ISO by stripping libraries of debug symbols...

OSDir has some great screenshots of this slick release.

Distrowatch reports - A new beta version of Mandriva Linux 2006 appeared on the mirrors over the weekend. Like the first one a week ago, the new beta release, labelled as 2006 0.1.1, has not yet been officially announced, but the good news is that the mirroring problems we mentioned in last week's DistroWatch Weekly have been solved and the new release is now available from the usual Mandriva mirror sites.

OSDir has a handful of nice shots of this fresh Mandriva 2006 beta.