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• Red Hat pushes certification program amid Linux wave

  Linux vendor Red Hat is pushing its certification program and looking to recruit more training partners in light of its ten-year anniversary and increasing Linux uptake.

• New Linux-based technology to make ‘smarter’ GPS

  Sick of having your GPS tell you to turn the wrong way up a one-way street or lead you to a dead end? Fear not: Linux-based technology developed at NICTA is on its way to help make personal navigation systems more accurate.

• Microsoft acknowledges Linux threat to Windows client

  Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Red Hat lauds, criticizes Microsoft's Linux efforts

  While applauding Microsoft's contribution of code to the Linux community this week, Red Hat nonetheless urged its rival to pledge that it will never use its patents against Linux.

• Microsoft frees Linux drivers; other closed-source vendors to step up?

  Microsoft Corp.'s move to release three of its drivers to Linux, however technically modest it may be, could put pressure on other closed-source vendors to follow suit.

• Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel

  In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.

• Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China

  The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like software piracy take away strengths that open source has elsewhere.

• Intel is working with Google on Chrome OS

  The world's largest chip maker is working with Google on the Chrome operating system and has been privy to the project for some time, a spokesman for the company said Friday.

• VirtualBox 3.0: An easy way to mix and match operating systems

  Whether you prefer Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, you can probably get almost everything you need done with your chosen OS. However, sometimes a task demands an OS that you are not currently using. That's where virtualization programs like Sun Microsystem's VirtualBox 3.0 come in.

• Google's OS security claims called 'idiotic'

  Google, while announcing its new Chrome operating system late Tuesday, said users would no longer have to worry about viruses, malware and security updates, but security experts disagreed on whether Google can deliver on those promises.

• Linux 2.6.30 released, Torvalds proclaims 'new world order'

  Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released with hundreds of changes from the previous version, including a new architecture for suspend and resume which Linus Torvalds says switches the kernel to a “new world order”.

• Microsoft, Linux join forces in software law debate

  In an unusual twist, Microsoft and Linux have joined forces in a legal tussle.

• Has Ubuntu Reached the End Of the Line?

  I admit it. I'm impressed. I might have written a wishy-washy review of the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/162129/ubuntu_904_beta_quick_look.html">beta of Ubuntu 9.04</a>, but now I've had a chance to play with the final release, I like what I'm seeing. I like it a lot. Well done, Ubuntu guys!

• Microsoft Rules Netbooks Now, But ARM/Linux Threat Grows

  Will Microsoft stick with Intel chips in Netbooks? Or will it port Windows to ARM processors — the same chips that lower-cost Linux-based netbooks coming later this year will use. One thing's certain: Redmond's rivals are preparing for battle.

• NSW Govt advised to give students Linux laptops

  NSW school students could be supplied with Linux-based laptops as part of the state's efforts for the Digital Education Revolution [DER].