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William Carr, an Allegan resident who works with support groups for those with disabilities, says he must walk at least two miles to access one of the system's buses.

The ACT allows drivers to pick up passengers only within a mile of a route.

"There's a lot of us - senior citizens and the disabled - that need to get out of their homes and go somewhere," said Carr, who is a member of a countywide group known as Access Committee for All People.

ACT director Dan Wedge says he understands Carr's frustration but doesn't foresee any changes in route structure in the near future.

"Until more local funds are available, we don't see any significant expansion," Wedge said.

ACT's $700,000 annual operat...

As presented at the annual Novell BrainShare event last week in Salt Lake City, the code base will run across the desktop and server versions.

The next release of Novell's premium server product, Open Enterprise (OES), will also be built on the same code base.

This approach really makes sense from an overall maintenance and supportability standpoint.

Updates to the core operating system and key applications will apply to both server and desktop.

The common code base approach also makes sense from an applications and integration perspective.

It is really important for applications like the Beagle search tool.

Beagle will function the same way on a server as it will on the desktop.

SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 The June 2006 release date of SLED 10 gives Novell a lead on Microsoft's Vista, due out at year's end.

Vista is...