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Dutch TV programme Nieuwslicht (Newslight) is claiming that the security of the Dutch biometric passport has already been cracked. As the programme reports here, the passport was read remotely and then the security cracked using flaws built into the system, whereupon all of the biometric data could be read.

The first Icasa licence for an Asterisk-based PBX has been awarded to OpenVoice Holdings. The switching system licence means that OpenVoice's Asterisk PBX may be legally connected to the telecommunications grid.

The state has appointed a new CIO and made it clear that his job will be to forge ahead with implementing the controversial OpenDocument format.

z/OpenGate(TM) is a 2U (3.5 inches) rack mount unit designed for high availability and redundancy featuring a SUSE Linux OS, dual Intel XEON(R) processors, hot swappable power supplies, and internal mirrored disks.

When Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn resigned his post in December, citing political turmoil that threatened to derail the state’s adoption of an open-standards format for software, the behind-the-scenes battle between open-standards advocates and proprietary vendors went public. On one side sits Microsoft Corp. On the other side are open-standards advocates and vendors. They’re fighting for fair competition that doesn’t give Microsoft undue advantage because of what critics charge are the company’s long-standing relationships with most state governments.

[Ed: The real lesson here is for public officials to stand firm. Be sure to cover your bases, but definitely stand firm. - dcparris]

There's an interesting new open source project called openQRM, billed as a "cluster resource manager." It's currently around 73 on SourceForge, and has been up in the top 50 recently. It was released under a modified version of the Mozilla Public License by Qlusters, a company that was founded by openMosix developer Moshe Bar and that I've repeatedly met with at LinuxWorld Expos. I just talked to a colleague of mine, William Hurley, who recently took a job as Qlusters CTO.

Until very recently the majority of intra-African Internet traffic was routed via international exchange points rather than being routed within the continent. While a number of recently established exchange points on the continent have started to alter that reality there is still a lack of reliable historical data about African Internet traffic. The African IXP Research project has been working on developing some of these required numbers and has released it analysis tool as an open source project.

HMS selected an SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer powered by 144 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and 288GB of memory, and running Novell SUSE(R) Linux(R) Enterprise Server 9 to Meet Challenges of Ultra Short-Range Forecast Codes to Protect Lives and Property Throughout Hungary

Novell Inc has announced that it is bundling training and advanced support free of charge with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server product, undercutting rival Red Hat Inc, and introducing a new priority support version targeted at small-to-medium enterprises.

The Romney administration not only picked a new permanent CIO, but used the opportunity to make a statement that no one could miss that it is four-square behind ODF, and is making a political investment in making sure that nothing will stop it

Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as 'Goobuntu'.

MySQL AB, developer of MySQL, an open source database, was awarded a five-year GSA contract, GS-35F-0131R Schedule 70, providing government the ability to conveniently purchase and deploy MySQL database solutions.

Government organizations that currently use MySQL include Los Alamos National Labs, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and the Department of Defense.

Opinion: It's CFOs and dollars, not CIOs and gigabytes, that determine what technology companies buy. (Linux-Watch)

Samba OXtender Adds File and Print Services for Windows Workstations to Leading Open Source Collaboration Platform

User level: Advanced Most Linux users are familiar with the top command, typically used to examine the system load on a local PC and others on the network. However, have you considered using top to monitor your system automatically and to warn you when a server is being overloaded?

Transactional Java database features improved performance and concurrency

DB2 Express-C Gives Enterprise Customers Dataserver Choice and Delivers the Power of DB2 to LAMP Application Development

Bundling of Support and Training Provides One Stop Shopping for Mid-Size Companies to Leverage the Power of Linux and the Support of Novell

OpenWrt, the GPLed Linux distribution for wireless routers, is at RC4 and is nearing the 1.0 release. We looked at RC2 last August, but things have changed since then -- for the better.

Corel Corp. may have given up on bringing WordPerfect to Linux, but that doesn't mean Linux users have to give up on running WordPerfect on Linux.