Warren Woodford has announced the release of SimplyMEPIS 8.0.12, a maintenance update of the beginner-friendly, Debian-based desktop Linux distribution: "MEPIS LLC has released SimplyMEPIS 8.0.12, an update to the community edition of MEPIS 8.0. SimplyMEPIS 8.0 uses a Debian 'Lenny'

Stephan Rickauer has announced the release of BSDanywhere 4.6, an OpenBSD-based live CD featuring the IceWM window manager: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of BSDanywhere 4.6 - OpenBSD at your fingertips. Here's a quick summary of the

The third alpha build of TinyMe 2009, a minimalist desktop distribution based on Unity Linux (a fork of PCLinuxOS) is now available for testing: "TinyMe 2009 'Acorn' Alpha 3. TinyMe is a Unity-based distribution targeted at older computers and people

Rafael Bonifaz has announced the release of Elastix 1.6.0, a CentOS-based Linux distribution that integrates the best tools available for Asterisk-based Private Branch Exchanges (PBX) into a single, easy-to-use interface: "We are proud to announce the release of Elastix 1.6

Christophe Lincoln has announced that a new development build of SliTaz GNU/Linux 5.4, a minimalist distribution with Openbox designed for older computers, is ready for testing: "SliTaz contributors are proud to announce the availability of a new Cooking ISO image

Troy Dawson has announced the release of Scientific Linux 5.4, a distribution compiled from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, but enhanced with extra scientific packages, file systems and other software: "Scientific Linux 5.4 has been released for

Imad Sousou has announced the release of Moblin 2.1, a Linux distribution optimised for Intel Atom-based netbooks: "The Moblin project steering committee today announces the project release of Moblin 2.1 for Intel Atom processor-based netbooks and nettops. This project release

Mandriva Linux 2010 has been released: "Mandriva is proud to introduce its brand new release: Mandriva Linux 2010, code name 'Adelie'. Included in this new release, 'Smart desktop' technology, coming from a European research project. Your desktop is tasks oriented.

Dimitris Papadatos has announced the release of Monomaxos 4.0, a Greek desktop-oriented distribution based on Ubuntu (and a screensaver showing magnificent images of Greece): "Monomaxos Greek Linux operating system version 4.0 (based on Ubuntu 9.04). This is the fourth release

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I was in a coaching session with a client yesterday where I was instructing them on the nuances of E-mail Etiquette in their day to day communications. You know, all the things I talk about here and in my books.They

As many of you may know, I'm a big fan of collaboration. I think we all have enough challenges building solutions for our customers, that we all benefit from any kind of collaboration. One such collaboration is the WAAI project.

Janice J. Heiss sent me an email pointing me to the Sun Developer Network article series Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons. This series, which has been a work in progress by since March, is written by Jim Faut, with contributions

At Paypal's first developer conference it was announced that the Java store will be using Paypal for application payments: Developers can price their offering anywhere from $1.99 to $200.00 (USD) and select the license rights they wish to apply to

BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies, in association with Oracle, will offer managed services platform that will help companies streamline their human resource (HR) operations and reduce costs. "The platform enables us to offer the next generation of multi-process HR transformational outsourcing

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