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Google's Chrome plug-in for IE is half-baked. IT organizations are unlikely to adopt the plug-in without enterprise deployment and management tools.

Big IT projects fail. Open source can help. In traditional software sales cycles, it takes forever for the the customer to really get to experience the software.

Why Africa gets the IBM-Ubuntu bundle and you do not. IBM and Ubuntu are partnering on a Linux bundle for Africa, but only there.

Why open-source DNS is the Internet's dirty little secret.? Do Nominum's new Skye cloud DNS services close a key weakness in the Internet?

CodePlex Foundation will help spread use of Mono. The foundation will ensure that there are incentives for open source software developers who embrace Mono.

PC makers to support Chrome OS. Google plans to announce within the next day or so the names of PC makers in Taiwan and China that have already signed on to work with its new Chrome operating system.

Chrome OS to emphasize security. Google claims that it will be completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS, reports ArsTechnica, including process isolation.

Codeplex the measure of Microsoft open source street cred. The company is trumpeting the success of its three year old CodePlex open source site, noting it now has over 10,000 projects.

Stop piling on Mono. Microsoft says it won't go after developers using the C# programming language and infrastructure used in the Mono implementation of .NET. So why are people ripping on Mono?

SUSE 11 takes off faster than 10. Novell delivered its SUSE Linux 11 release at the end of March, so it's now time to ask how it's doing. The answer: better than SUSE Linux 10.

PHP 5.3.0 released. New features include namespaces, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions, and there are many bug fixes.

Red Hat seeks to certify the cloud--Q&A. Mike Evans, Red Hat's vice president of Corporate Development, on the company's cloud strategy.

KDE's Aaron Seigo gives sneak peek at version 4.3. Here's a screencast on the upcoming release.

Will Stallman C# warning fall flat? Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation says C# and Mono are a Microsoft conspiracy.

Building a Linux App Store: Can You Help? Isn't there room for one?

Mono 2.0 lets .Net apps run on Linux.....

Red Hat CEO: The secret to open-source success is iteration.....

Getting paid to abandon an open source project?.....

October promises to be a hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu.....

Open source can still win in a down economy.....

Novell's Mono, which aims to create an open source, cross-platform set of tools compatible with Microsoft's .Net programming framework, has made the first, though incomplete public release , of Moonlight, an open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in.....

The third and last beta of OpenSUSE 11.0 has been announced, and it reportedly fixes over 700 bugs.....

Interesting analysis: A Tale of Four Kernels.....

Strong passwords are no panacea as SSH brute-force attacks rise.....

Awards are on their way for top contributions to open source. Google and O'Reilly are calling for nominations for 2008 open source awards.....Would a synchronized release schedule benefit Linux distros and open source in general?.....Windows or open source is not even the question....Second open source HD movie set for release in May.....

The New York Times has a story on alleged troubles surrounding Jimmy Wales, co-founder of open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia.....Sun Microsystems and open source backup and recovery company Zmanda have announced a partnership to deliver a global backup and recovery system for MySQL Enterprise subscribers.....The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is claiming victory in yet another infringement lawsuit over the use of the open source GPL license.....