A South African company specialising in open source education tools has developed a low-cost way of making thousands of books available on a searchable DVD.
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South African open source services provider Synaq has established an international partnership to provide new server infrastructure.
Tarsus Technologies has introduced the HP NX6610 notebook with a free bootable operating system called FreeDOS and two locally-supported Linux distributions, namely ImpiLinux and Linspire.
The University of the Western Cape`s Kinky open source application framework has generated interest from as far as Afghanistan, the university says.
A local security engineer aims to build SA's second 'supercomputer'.
SA has only 0.15% of the world`s public hotspots, but providers say lower-cost alternatives can boost numbers.
Novell and the South African Department of Home Affairs will deploy the Novell GroupWise collaboration solution running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server at each of the department`s 635 foreign missions, border posts and local offices.
In today`s technology roundup: Microsoft to `host` Linux virtually, Google garners nearly half of February searches, digital TV for cellphones in Japan, and 'download` is the word in Hollywood.
HP has brought Linux-based notebooks to the SA market, choosing Linspire over Ubuntu.
The Innovation Hub, in partnership with Linux Holdings, will host the Open Source Technology Fair on 1 April.
Novell has introduced the Novell Open Workgroup Suite, which includes server and desktop components with management tools, e-mail, collaboration and open source office products.
Sophos has announced the new version of Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux, which includes on-access scanning for Linux platforms. [Local rep: Netxactics]