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The news on the ODF front continues to flow, as the air wars continue between ODF and OOXML. This morning's email includes a message from OpenOffice.org's Louis Suarez-Potts to those interested in the progress of OOo's ODF compliant, open source software suite. That message announces the third OOo release of 2006, versioned as OpenOffice.org 2.1.

Are you looking for computers with Linux pre-installed? Clicking on that big blue image on the right will take you to LXer's Pre-Installed Linux Vendor Database, where you can find vendors selling laptops, desktops, servers, and more - all with GNU/Linux pre-installed, or at least without Windows so you can install your own operating system. You can find vendors in the US, Europe, and Australia, so look for a vendor near you!

DivX has extended its multi-year agreement with Google in which DivX bundles the Google toolbar with downloads of DivX video software products. DivX will also bundle the Mozilla Firefox Browser.

In a move to promote the KDE desktop in the Enterprise, the UK's Open Source experts, Sirius Corporation, have become a Supporting Member of the KDE project. Sirius' commitment to KDE is our second supporting membership and follows Canonical's recent patronage of the project. Sirius and KDE are joint participants in SQO-OSS, an EU-funded project that assesses the quality of Open Source code.

Fortify Software, provider of software security products, in partnership with FindBugs, the open source Java error detection project, has launched the Java Open Review (JOR) Project. The JOR Project, located at http://opensource.fortifysoftware.com/, invites the open source software community to submit their Java software projects for a quality and security review.

Over the past week, some of the Linux desktop's foremost developers gathered together in Portland, Oregon at the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) Desktop Architects Meeting to work further on bringing order to the Linux desktop.

I guess you all know this: you are connected to your server with SSH and in the middle of compiling some software (e.g. a new kernel) or doing some other task which takes lots of time, and suddenly your connection drops for some reason, and you lose your labour. This can be very annoying, but fortunately there is a small utility called screen which lets you reattach to a previous session so that you can finish your task. This short tutorial shows how to use screen for just this purpose.

It's a Red Hat day in New York. Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik will ring the bell to open the NYSE while a big red hat sits out front. Welcome to the NYSE. The NYSE will be going all out to market the arrival of Red Hat on the big board. The exchange will adorn its façade with a 10-foot fedora, light up Times Square with Red Hat's logo and place ads on New York City taxicabs and investor publications.

Mutt is a great mail client, in large part because it is extremely customizable. You can tweak Mutt's behavior and have it do tricks that are nearly impossible to do with other mail clients -- but it can be a bit daunting to get started with. Let's take Mutt on a short trip to mail client obedience school and see how easy it can be to make Mutt handle mail just the way you want it to.

As a state run agency, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency couldn't afford a drastic increase in maintenance costs for its data center.

Ever since the announcement of Sun's "liberating" of the majority of the Java code base last month, tech savvy sections of the Internet have been buzzing with what this might mean for the Java, Open Source and developer communities.

The Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium has announced speakers and session topics for its third annual event, set for Mar. 12-16 in Baltimore, MD. The symposium will feature business, government, and academic speakers sharing experiences, research, and product plans, organizers say.

Synapse EMR is being ported to Linux. Alpha builds are now available to play with (Libc6). Synapse EMR is a GUI rich free EMR on Win32. See here Lots of things not working yet, but the basic GUI comes up. Still to work on printing, print preview etc. Only 50% thru reading Linux for Dummies so once I finish that I'll have more ideas on how to complete this project!

Last night I finally retired from the PHP Security Response Team, that was initially my idea a few years ago. The reasons for this are many, but the most important one is that I have realised that any attempt to improve the security of PHP from the inside is futile.

This article presents an analysis of the security mechanisms, risks, attacks, and defenses of the two most commonly used password management systems: those found in Internet Explorer and Firefox. The article specifically addresses IE 6 and 7 and Firefox 1.5 and 2.0. Attention is devoted to the following areas:

Solutions Linux / Solutions Open Source 2007, billed as the "biggest professional fair in Europe dedicated to open source solutions," will be held Jan. 30 through Feb. 1 at the Paris Expo. The event caters to professionals dedicated to working with Linux, open source, and free software.

Trinidad offers a set of complimentary components that will further enhance the interface of your JSF application.

Big news, everybody... Issue 15 has been released! If you haven’t already got it, come and download... it’s packed full of interesting articles! Furthermore, the winners of the blogging competition have been notified and are now blogging with us. This is fantastic news, and combined with the other new bloggers we have recently aquired, we now have an army of talent writing for us all the time. So keep your eyes out for the new names on the front page, and enjoy what they have to say!

Operating system security revolves around controlling access. Linux distributions subscribe to the Discretionary Access Control (DAC) mechanism that lets resource owners decide who gets to access the resource and how. People soon realized that DAC is not an ideal solution, as it gives applications the same privileges of the user running them. One compromised application running as root effectively compromises the full system. This led security experts to develop Mandatory Access Control (MAC), which grants access to resources as defined by a security policy, regardless of the user running the application. The Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) project is the first mainstream implementation of MAC.

Big graphs are not the only way to visualize data in a text document. Using a couple of tricks, you can spice up your OpenOffice.org Writer documents with sparklines -- word-sized graphs embedded into text. Developed by infographic guru Edward Tufte, sparklines provide a simple yet effective way of visualizing data directly in the text body of the document.