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Drake Consulting launches Web service that stops viruses and blocks spam.

Opinion: Microsoft is Oracle's most threatening rival in its quest to get its own piece of the Linux pie.

Oracle's decision to pay $US220 million for telco billing software developer, Portal Software fits neatly into its reported ambitions to gain, through acquisition, its own Linux distribution: release of a Linux version of the Portal billing system appears imminent.

Open source software advocate Eric S. Raymond is reporting that his name and copyright information for a bit of MIT-licensed code called the GIFLIB library are included in the end user license agreement of a Microsoft application called Expression 3.3.

The following instructions decribe the process for installing Knoppix Linux on a USB flash drive. This allows the OS to be booted directly from the flash drive. The instructions have been tested to work on Dell Optiplex GX270 and GX280s.

Dawn Foster comments on Dana Blankenhorn's post about the fragmented Open Source market. [Dawn's blog post is important, as it highlights the definition of a fragmented market - something that I view as a rather positive thing because the lack of a clear market leader means it will be more difficult for any one company to dominate the market as other companies have and do. Is a fragmented market a beneficial thing? Or is that a matter of opinion? - dcparris]

Jitterbit released the latest version of its Open Source Business Integration software today. The new release of Jitterbit has a revamped installation that will make it much easier and faster to get the server up and running. This version also includes better XML and web services functionality, added support for databases, and better overall stability.

You can get directly to the downloads at the link below.

Download Jitterbit 0.9.9

Linus Torvalds has had an opportunity to examine the testing and analysis by Hans-Werner Hilse which we reported on yesterday, and has blessed it as being correct. The reason that the virus is not propagating itself in the latest kernel versions is due to a bug in how GCC handles specific registers in a particular system call. He has coded a patch for the kernel to allow the virus to work on even the latest Linux kernel.

In the constellation of Windows network managers, Vlad Mazek's a shiny new star. He's a hyper-active Windows crusader who administers a fleet of enterprise-class servers. So with all that Windows experience, why did Mazek choose Linux for his latest Windows-promoting project? Mazek says, when you get right down to it, it's strictly about cost: Linux is cheaper, even for a Windows MVP. That's bad news for Redmond. And very good news for Linux.

A week before the spring LinuxWorld tradeshow got underway in Boston in March, Novell's chairman and CEO, Jack Messman, was quoted in the trade press as saying that eventually, when all the dust clears, there would only be two commercial suppliers of the Linux operating system: Red Hat and Novell.

Lawrence Lessig and Richard Stallman here give their reasoning behind opposing DRM, and Lessig explains his previous comments

Open source advocate Bruce Perens has launched an initiative to discourage owners of undeveloped Web domains hosting them on servers running proprietary software. Perens wants domain owners and resellers to redirect unused Web domains — which have been registered but not yet developed — to OpenSourceParking.com. Perens says this site will always run on Apache, the popular open source Web server software.

Andrey Savochkin leads the development of the kernel portion of OpenVZ, an operating system-level server virtualization solution. In this interview, Andrey offers a thorough explanation of what virtualization is and how it works. He also discusses the differences between hardware-level and operating system-level virtualization, going on to compare OpenVZ to VServer, Xen and User Mode Linux.

Andrey is now working to get OpenVZ merged into the mainline Linux kernel explaining, "virtualization makes the next step in the direction of better utilization of hardware and better management, the step that is comparable with the step between single-user and multi-user systems." The complete OpenVZ patchset weighs in at around 70,000 lines, approximately 2MB, but has been broken into smaller logical pieces to aid in discussion and to help with merging.

To enable channel partners in the usage of open source software and promote it aggressively, Red Hat has joined hands with Intel to form a global program to help customers plan for, accelerate and optimize their deployments of Linux solutions.

Why is it so much harder to secure a Windows installation than a Linux installation? Well take a look a the pictures posted by Richard Stiennon on his ZD Net Blog.

The OpenDocument Format Alliance's membership has more than tripled since its launch; it cites a"groundswell of support" as the reason for its rapid growth.

Far from the finished product, Elive still captures the essence of Linux and the user's imagination. The "tweak-ability" of Elive seems endless, and the surprises it holds in store for the new Elive User are unique.

The tar backup program is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. A tarfile may be made on a tape drive; however, it is also common to write a tarfile to a normal file.