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Free set-top boxes for all to end digital divide

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet UK News reports, a UK company, dubbed FreeBox, claims it will bridge the digital divide in its ambitious plan to provide every house in Britain with a free set-top box to access digital television channels and the Internet.

CA and Red Hat ship ARCserveIT with Red Hat Linux 7

Author: JT Smith

PRNewswire: Computer Associates International, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc
today announced an agreement to ship a live trial version of CA’s acclaimed
flagship data protection solution, ARCserveIT, with every copy of Red Hat
Linux 7 Professional Edition.

If you embed it, they will come

Author: JT Smith

Wired News observations from the Embedded Systems Conference this week in San Jose, California.

Category:

  • Unix

VA SystemImager 1.2

Author: JT Smith

Freshmeat reports, VA SystemImager makes the installation of Linux to masses of similar machines relatively easy. It also makes software and content distribution, configuration, and operating system updates easy. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux.)

Category:

  • Linux

Wayward editor mispredicts the death of FUD

Author: JT Smith

All Linux Devices article concludes, “Even if I prematurely predicted the death of FUD, my money’s still on Linux.”

Category:

  • Linux

Sun releases Grid Engine 5.2

Author: JT Smith

Sun has announced the open source release of its “Grid Engine” product , a loose clustering package oriented toward making use of idle desktop systems, from NewsAlert.

IntraNet Solutions adds web development to the mix

Author: JT Smith

Continuing its streak of product innovation fanfare, InternetNews reports, IntraNet Solutions Inc. Wednesday introduced new technology from their recently-acquired information exchange for Web developers to clamor over.

New digital audio playback device platform

Author: JT Smith

Business Wire on NewsAlert: Interactive Objects, Inc., and Red Hat, Inc. today announced a strategic alliance designed to enable the development of a family of new digital audio playback devices
based on the Dadio digital audio OS and platform.

Mac OS X a hit with first users

Author: JT Smith

MacWEEK states, “Unix and Linux experts are already stepping in to plug some of the
gaps in the beta. In one case, someone has already ported a Linux
PPPoE client over to OS X.”

Unison announces file synchronizer

Author: JT Smith

Linux PR: The Unison development team at the University of Pennsylvania has announced a new public release (version 2.5) of its file synchronization tool for Unix and Windows systems.