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.. posted 12:59pm EST Fri Jan 16 2004 - submitted by J. Eric Smith. Time waits for no man, and it seems to wait for no company as well. The well-known "SCO vs. Pounds - The Mac Observer SCO sor

Despite the PR nirvana that LinuxWorld would seem to represent, the scuttlebutt suggests that the SCO Group won't drop an attention-riveting end-user suit in Pounds - The Mac Observer SCO sort

White: Hmm. I'm going to swing for the fences: SCO's suit will be dismissed. SCO Group is not hosting a booth at LinuxWorld. Do you wish they would? Why? Pounds - The Mac Observer SCO sort of t

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in tcpdump, a tool for inspecting network traffic. If a vulnerable version of tcpdump attempted to examine a maliciously constructed packet, a number of buffer overflows could be exploited to crash tcpdump, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the tcpdump process.

Computers and the Internet are just starting to penetrate the Mideast, and since most residents of most countries here are dirt-poor, Linux and open source are Enterprise Unix Roundup: Another D

The minds behind the Mozilla Web browser have taken to fixing bugs in it's latest version 1.6 (code-named SeaMonkey) released late Thursday.

As an extension of its ‘Linux Everywhere' campaign on the client front, Oracle plans to equip the Mozilla open-source Web browser for running its

A vulnerability was discovered in Midnight Commander, a file manager, whereby a malicious archive (such as a .tar file) could cause arbitrary code to be executed if opened by Midnight Commander.

According to Shah, Nagarjuna G. of the Free Software Foundation of India was the one who impressed upon the WSF organisers to use Linux.

European firms are being urged to buy a licence for Linux to avoid legal action by SCO which claims the operating system unlawfully includes some of its

You never see mainstream TV programs talking about US Linux developers, for example. You never see Arabian Linux developers on TV of its

Codehost and Electronics For Imaging (EFI) announced a strategic partnership to make the Codehost BrightQ Unix and Linux printing suite available to

This is the second in a series of reviews of Debian-based distributions. The first review looked at LindowsOS 4.5. This one examines

January 16, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hewlett-Packard (hp.com) said on Thursday that it generated a company record $2.5 billion in Linux-based

16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux

Microsoft's extension of the support period for the Windows 98 product family earlier this week was a move intended largely to discourage the adoption of Linux

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the first regular update.

In one of the great ironies of the software industry, Covalent's management software -- though known for open-source management -- is a proprietary product.

Snort is intrusion detection system (IDS) software that is gaining its share of fans among the open source crowd. As with all open product.

The pace and volume of new product announcements is quickly accelerating in advance of LinuxWorld, the twice-annual trade show dedicated to the open-source