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razvedchik writes: "As reported in this article in the Portland, OR newspaper, The Oregonian, Microsoft is pressuring 24 school districts in the northwest to agree to their Microsoft School Agreement licensing scheme or undergo an audit in 60 days. Multnomah ESD, which covers the greater Portland area and has around 25,000 computers, has to either decide to accept the license at about $500,000 or undergo the audit which it does not have time to prepare for. Of significant interest is the fact that a significant majority of these schools are experimenting with using Linux. Multnomah ESD has its own thin-client Linux distro called K12LTSP."

Paul Nelson writes "Richard Camp posted a very complete, step by step guide to building a MOSIX cluster. "...The objective of this howto is to guide the reader on setting up a Mosix cluster with diskless nodes. The setup is based on K12ltsp Project. This should provide an easily scalable system."

Readers have sent in quite a few links to stories wrapping up this year's LinuxWorld. The most interesting thing I saw was the HP MP3 stereo component which looks a lot like a tivo, but for sound. I'm not sure if they're going to get it right, but it looks close. Hopefully the code will be available. If it is, I'm buying one. Hit the link to read a bunch of other links related to the show compiled by Timothy.

Sharon Machlis writes: "The Linux operating system celebrated its 10th birthday this month, but as that milestone was lauded here this week at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, founder Linus Torvalds and other open-source gurus offered very different ideas of what will come next. In a lively panel discussion, Torvalds gathered with fellow Linux leaders before a packed house to debate the present state of the open-source movement . . . "

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Here's Rick Lehrbaum's "traditional" wrap-up of the embedded side of LinuxWorld from this week's show in San Francisco. He says the turnout overall was disappointing, but the showing for embedded was quite strong. Lots of good detail on what was there, plus some pictures too. Sounds like PDA & set-top boxes are the next big conquest for Linux. Worth a read!"

Jonny5 of LinuxLookup writes: "The third and final installment of my expo coverage has just been posted on LinuxLookup.com. Check it out here"

pnelson talks about Red hat CEO Matthew Szulik's keynote address at Linux World in SF. Szulik said "I'm here today to challenge the open source community. To ask you to join together to promote open source in our schools, and to protect open source in our government." Szulik highlighted the K12 Linux Terminal Server Project and ended with, "as we work as a community, we can fight as a community. And through the grassroots power of the Internet, together we can advance the cause...""