From a story at mozillaquest.com: “Are you normally a Microsoft Windows user who now is using Linux as a second or alternative computer operating system? Or, are you making the switch from Microsoft (MS) Windows to Linux? If so, then chances are that you want your Linux installation to look and to feel as much like MS Windows as possible.

The more Linux looks and feels like MS Windows, the less time and effort you need to invest in learning Linux and Linux applications …

However, in the long run you will get more out of Linux if you learn to use Linux as Linux rather than Linux as an MS Windows clone. Once you get use to using Linux and the K desktop with the Windows Theme, try re-setting the K desktop to the KDE Default Theme.

LinuxToday Australia reviews several word-processing programs available for Linux. The writer finds several programs that offer an alternative to running Microsoft Word on Wine, but says most alternatives fall short in some way.

Reuters reports that the European Parliament has approved a new law allowing rights holders to prevent “illegal” copying of copyrighted works by technology such as encryption.

Reuters reports that IBM on Wednesday announced the launch of a
software lab in India, and it will play an important role in IBM’s global Linux
initiative.
The laboratory, in India’s high-tech capital Bangalore and
the western city of Pune, will employ about 500 people.

CNN.com reports that a 20-year-old
Dutchman claiming be the author of the Anna
Kournikova computer virus has handed himself over to
police in The Netherlands.

The manwalked into a
police station in his home town of Sneek. He was arrested on suspicion of
damaging computer programs and property. More from InfoWorld.

From PR Newswire: Lineo, Inc, a leading innovator
in embedded systems, real-time and high availability solutions, today
announced the availability of the uCdimm microcontroller module for the
DragonBall VZ microcontroller and uCevolution, a new host platform which gives
developers a quick way to cross port a variety of processors. These two new
products will be bundled in the Lineo uClinux Development Kit.

Anonymous Reader writes: “Here is a ripper’s guide, a primer for improving the quality of the songs we convert over from CDs. Nice technical and configuration detail here.” It’s at mp3newswire.net.

From LinuxPlanet: “What is it that causes some Linux users, myself included, a vague unease when talk turns to Linux moving into the mainstream? After all, there’s no
doubt that this would be a good thing, right?” Not necessarily, according to the columnist: “It’s worrisome that so many people talk about
moving Linux into ‘the mainstream.’ Look at the mainstream” It’s no place to be. It’s where people who put
convenience ahead of quality, reason, and freedom live.”

Wired.com: “Author Glyn Moody’s first interview with Linus Torvalds occurred hours after the birth of the Linux creator’s first child. Now he’s written a book about the open-source movement and he’s still impressed by every penguin-head’s focus.”

From a story at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com: “The open source concept is disruptive. Any existing
technology can never invest enough in disruptive technologies, because disruptive technologies come from grass roots movements
that take over. This has happened in semiconductors, disk subsystems, and elsewhere. Up until now, people have been doing software
development in a proprietary fashion. The open source movement is a new way of developing software, where the software gets
tested and reviewed by more people. That makes the code more robust.”