CNET reviews TurboLinux Workstation Pro 6.1. The verdict: “…its non-graphical installation interface is likely to intimidate all but grizzled Linux veterans,” however its support for the Japanese language “should please its legions of users in Pacific Rim countries.”

Sohodojo and Communities of the Future today announced their partnership in founding the Center for Open Source Collaboration Technologies. The Center is an Applied R&D Lab and Study Center chartered to develop and facilitate the application of Open Source collaboration technologies within ‘Small is Good’ Business Webs in urban and rural communities seeking a sustainable future.

The Center for Open Source Collaboration Technologies is a ‘node’ in the Communities of the Future Network. As a Network node, the Center for Open Source Collaboration Technologies will work closely with such prestigious Network members as the New Democracy Center of the Blacksburg Electronic Village and the Center for the Digital Economy at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

“We are fortunate to join with Sohodojo in opening the Center for Open Source Collaboration Technologies,” said Rick Smyre, President of Communities of the Future, “There is great synergy between Sohodojo’s ideas of the nanocorp and ‘small is good’ business webs and Communities of the Future’s interest in developing capacities for transformation and process leadership within rural and urban communities seeking a sustainable future.”

“Sohodojo has an innovative ‘Big Picture’ research and development agenda related to role/actor executable business model technologies,” said Jim Salmons, co-founder and Co-Host of Sohodojo, “We’ll be doing some very original framework development work, initially under a project called ‘The Nanocorp Game’, an exploratory learning environment and sandbox for our developers.”

“But we are also ‘ruthlessly simple’ pragmatists,” said Timlynn Babitsky, co-founder and Co-Host of Sohodojo, “We intend to work initially with Communities of the Future in the selection, integration and documentation of existing ‘Best of Breed’ Open Source collaboration technologies to support the evolution of the COTF Network web sites and their constellations of project subsites.”

Open Source developers, entrepreneurial free agents, small business entrepreneurs and community activists interested in the vision and research agenda of Sohodojo, Communities of the Future and the Center for Open Source Collaboration Technologies are encouraged to explore our web sites and contact us at techsig@sohodojo.com describing your interest. You do not need to be a developer to get involved in our wide-ranging research and development projects.

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–Jim Salmons

Slashdot readers discuss Open Source programming: “Surely there must be thousands of similar students with basic programmming skills who want to help but are intimidated by the sheer enormity of even finding their place in hundreds of megabytes of source code. I would think that after the experience of a few projects, get a foothold for that first experience? What kind of project should he be looking for?””

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley wants to know: “Why aren’t open-source purists afraid of being co-opted by big companies? If they are fearful that the Dells, IBMs and HPs might end up dictating to them, they sure aren’t saying so.”

From LinuxLookup.com: “With Linux-based for-profit companies having a difficult time making money, and the accelerating consolidation of Linux market share into fewer commercial distributions, it is questionable whether free software cangrow beyond geekdom into the mainstream.” –Jonny5

From a post at Debian Planet: “I’ve just noticed today that Eazel’s Nautilus 0.5-2.1, otherwise known as PR2 has been recently released into the Woody stream, so it might be time to remove that Nautilus deb line from your sources.list file.”

Linux Today reports: “Wednesday, theKompany.com, a Linux software firm, announced they have handed the source code to Kivio, their flowcharting tool, over to the KDE project, and that the GPL’d program is now available in the KDE CVS tree. theKompany’s CEO sees the donation as a testing of the waters for a business model that includes GPL’d software.”

Slashdot reviews Mark Arnold, Jeff Almeida, & Clint Miller’s Administering Apache. “More than an introduction, it will be a good reference, not just for the mechanics of the software, but for the technique and mindset necessary to maintain an installation in a business environmen

Slashdot readers discuss a news post at Zophar’s about a Dreamcast user running Linux on his gaming console.

From a press release at Business Wire: “Trend Micro Inc. (Nasdaq:TMIC), the leading provider of antivirus solutions for the Internet gateway, today announced its award-winning InterScan VirusWall gateway virus protection and content filtering solution for Red Hat, SuSE, and Turbo Linux, the most widely used versions of the Linux operating system used in North America, Germany, and Japan, respectively.”