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March is the last date set for the Free Software Foundation's release of the third revision of its General Public License. The open source camp has already made its opposition to the licence fairly clear; the FSF, while admitting that the draft for GPL Version 3 is not yet finalised, is unlikely to compromise on key changes from the existing licence, the very changes that are the major sticking points between the two camps.

Examine how to configure Secure Shell (SSH) on IBM System p and System x computers to run commands in parallel in a cluster without being prompted for a password. This will allow you to perform activities more easily and quickly, and gives you flexibility to perform activities in parallel on more machines.

So yesterday I went to my boss’ place to install both Kubuntu Dapper and Debian Etch onto his new Asus V2-AH2 box, which really gave us a hard time. But that wasn’t Debian’s or Ubuntu’s fault.

The France-based Zenwalk GNU/Linux development team introduced v3.0, its latest stable major release, on Sept. 8. Zenwalk 3.0, which features a 2.6.17 Linux kernel and the Xfce desktop, is now available for download, as is ZenLive-2.8.1, a bug-fix update to Zenwalk's live CD edition.

A start-up called Simply RISC has built a single-core variant of Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T1, an indication of interest in Sun's plan to encourage others to adopt and modify open-source designs for the processor.

Linux Networx completed a new round of venture financing Monday, giving the company an additional $37 million to bring its Linux-based, cluster supercomputers to industry and research marketplaces.

This howto will illustrate a way to install and configure Subversion and websvn on a Debian server. With Subversion you have a powerful version control system for your software development, and websvn is an easy-to-use webinterface to your SVN repositories written in PHP.

Ever since Sun announced the inclusion of Java DB, known in the wild as Derby, in the JDK of the Java SE platform, there have been many complaints about it. A recent blog entry (funny URL by the way :) by Simon Morris caught my attention. I understand why one would complain about bloating the JDK with a database, or with the WS stack or even Rhino for that matter.

The Google Summer of Code is over, and final reports have been submitted. Most of our students worked well right up to (and in some cases beyond) the end of the summer, and hopefully we'll see some useful results from their projects coming to light soon. Expect a more detailed summary of what was achieved, coming soon to a d-d-a list near you.

Distrowatch reports - Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 milestone. This is a public beta. This is the first Red Hat Enterprise Linux release that includes Xen based open source virtualization technology. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 release contains virtualization on the i386 and x86_64 architectures as well as a technology preview for IA64. OSDir has some nice screenshots of Red Hat EL 5 Beta 1 in the Red Hat EL 5 Beta 1 Screenshot Tour.

Articles like this one are so misguided. Giving you a brief overview what the article from ComputerWorld says: Open Source supporters build fortresses around them that make them unapproachable and have infinite animosity toward Microsoft. Yep, that about sums it up. I'll show you below how this article was written by a ignorant journalist...one that probably is too prideful to ask for help when writing his garbage.

The Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit is ready to move into the second phase of its open source initiative, which is to expand use of the technology to more government agencies.

This newly updated standards-based, data-driven Eclipse plug-in generates functional forms with XForms mark-up embedded within an XHTML document on Red Hat.

This whitepaper examines the market potential for hardware add-in cards that interface open telephony systems with the PSTN (public switched telephone network). It also looks at the trends driving businesses to adopt IP telephony systems, and at various popular open source PBXs and other tools.

Being a RISC OS user is an odd experience. It's normally baffling to non-believers why so many (mostly British) computer users persist with the eccentric beast. It's easy to list reasons why no self-respecting geek would trouble with it: many old or under-developed applications, poor streaming media support, lack of compatibility with key standards and technologies, limited hardware support, and there are many more. For most, RISC OS is a thing of the past, a curio, a once-promising minority OS trampled on by the juggernauts of Windows, MacOS and Linux.

[Its got another one of those big MS ads. but it is a decent article. - Scott]

A series of one-day trade shows on embedded systems and real-time computing will be held during the next four months in cities around the U.S., Europe, and Asia. The Real-Time and Embedded Computing Conference (RTECC) events will include embedded Linux sessions and demonstrations.

Motorola is readying a slim, Linux-based PDA phone, according to several sources around the web. The E690, a tri-band GSM phone with QVGA touchscreen and 2 megapixel camera, will reportedly ship to China Mobile customers at an unspecified time.

Underneath the familiar KDE desktop, DesktopBSD is still FreeBSD; in fact, you will find more references to "FreeBSD" than "DesktopBSD" throughout the system. That's because, as the DesktopBSD FAQ says, "DesktopBSD isn't a 'fork' [of FreeBSD] -- it's a customized FreeBSD installation that mainly consists of the DesktopBSD Tools and a collection of configuration files and software for desktop use."

Fluxbuntu.org states - Fluxbuntu is a Ubuntu-based derivative that uses FluxBox as the desktop environment (window manager). It is lightweight, swift and efficient compared to Gnome or KDE. These features makes Fluxbuntu suitable for vast range of computers, from low-end to high-end. OSDir has some great shots of the first ever public Fluxbuntu release in the Fluxbuntu nBuild1 Alpha Screenshot Tour.

At this year's International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) a system that goes by the Italian name of Piero, which is capable of calculating the position and movement of people and objects on the basis of TV footage, is one of the projects shortlisted for the IBC2006 Innovation Awards.