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Brian Stevens, formerly vice president of development, is stepping into the CTO role after years of leading the Linux software maker's enterprise strategy.

PixExcel Ltd. Monday released Update 6 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3. Pie Box is a relatively new distribution aimed at people who want a stable OS with a long lifespan, but don't want an expensive bundled support contract, the company said. The distro is derived from open source software with only four of its packages modified to replace trademarks and logos with the company's own.

Slimline Open Firmware (SLOF) provides a largely machine-independent BIOS, illustrating what is needed to initialize and boot Linux, focusing on PowerPC. Three of the SLOF developers discuss the development and usage of SLOF, initialization/boot source code for the PowerPC based on the Open Firmware standard. editor note: Open Firmware is used on New World Macs

Sony's PlayStation Portable shows the graphics power you can put into a mobile device and mobile gamming. Although the average mobile phone is technologically behind this specialized game machine, you can see where the market is heading. This article describes the Mobile 3D Graphics API and introduces you to 3D programming for Java mobile devices.

The KDE Project has released a bugfix update to KOffice, v1.4.2. Support for the OASIS OpenDocument format, recently adopted by Massachusetts, has been greatly improved, especially in KWord, KSpread, and KPresenter. Karbon, a vector-based drawing program, has also seen considerable recent development, the team said.

Sun takes the battle to office suite leader Microsoft with the latest version of its StarOffice office suite. With a VBA macro converter, better compatibility and migration tools, Sun takes aim and fires at Redmond.

The nForce4 chipset has been out for the AMD platform for almost a year now. Upon release, it quickly became “the” chipset to have for most mid to high end systems. As with any popular chipset, you tend to see a plethora of motherboard makers offering little differences here and there to make their product stand out from the rest. BIOS options, fan-less chipset cooling, and UV cables are just some of the features that you see motherboard makers boasting as a selling point. Today we are going take an in depth look at the DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-D motherboard and investigate whether or not its features, performance and stability make it stand out from the rest.

It's time yet again for the annual ONLamp.com reader survey! We run a survey on each site once a year to learn more about you, our readers. ONLamp.com covers a lot of topic areas, including PHP, Python, Ruby, Apache httpd, MySQL, PostgreSQL, the Linux kernel and GNU/Linux operating systems, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, C, C++, open source, free software, system administration, and advocacy. That's neither a comprehensive list of everything the LAMP metaphor has grown to represent nor a representative list of all of the skills, abilities, and interests you have.

Emboldened by the state of Massachusetts's dictum last month requiring the use of open-standard document formats in all state offices by Jan. 1, 2007, a group of vocal open standards advocates Monday created a new special interest group to promote use of the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) OpenDocument Format.

This is open source, not open brand, chief executive Marc Fleury says. Company also denies that accuser is a JBoss co-founder.

The open-source OpenDocument document standard has been submitted to a key international standards organisation, which could make it more attractive as a desktop solution in the public sector.

The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis), which is behind OpenDocument, said it has submitted...

CapitolAdvantage.com started out as a paper directory of members of Congress that founder Bob Hansan sold to corporations in the Washington, DC, area in the late '80s. When the Internet boomed in 1996, Hansan moved everything online and conducted a quiet revolution that has permanently changed the way constituents communicate with their congressmen and senators. Today, the entire operation runs on Red Hat Linux.

The team developing the open source desktop environment claims to have made 'very significant improvements' in performance and memory usage, as they target the embedded market with future versions

Ubuntu Linux has won the prestigious "Best Linux/Open Source Distribution" award at this year's UK Linux and Open Source Awards, after the readership of Linux User & Developer voted for their favourite Linux Distribution. In just under a year, Ubuntu has grown to be one of the most respected versions of Linux, being the most popular distribution on Distrowatch for over six months, as well as winning the inaugural Tux Magazine's Favourite Distribution award in September this year.

"Penguin in the Pew" 2.0 is being offered as a Web-Based Training tutorial by GlobalLiteracy (www.globalliteracy.org) for use in its site and at GospelLearning (www.gospellearning.org). "Penguin in the Pew", a book by Christian Libre Software Advocate, Don Parris, helps Christian ministries discover the advantages of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS). The web-based course enables church staffers and others to understand the license terms, technical challenges and financial hurdles churches may face as they consider their next software upgrade. The course will be delivered using the libre software Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle.

Microsoft's opponents said Tuesday that any settlement between the company and RealNetworks Inc. will not affect the EU's coming court clash with the software giant over a landmark antitrust ruling. Seattle-based RealNetworks, maker of a rival to Microsoft's Media Player, is the company's last big commercial opponent in the EU case, after reaching out-of-court deals with four of the five major parties that had intervened against it.

The NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) is taking a tough stance against Microsoft’s decision to make the enterprise edition of Windows Vista only available to companies that have signed on to its Software Assurance programme. The tax collection agency has declared it would rather switch desktop operating systems than lock itself into Microsoft’s licensing regime.

JBoss Inc is announcing the addition of business rules and BPEL orchestration to its open source product mix, at its European user conference in Barcelona this week

ndian mobile phone and carrier software vendor Jataayu is porting its Instant Messaging and Presence Service (IMPS) stack to Linux, along with several other device software stacks. It expects to ship several browsing and messaging clients for Linux devices in Q4, 2005, with initial support for MontaVista's Mobilinux OS.

Sendmail. Tcpdump. OpenSSH. In addition to being highly useful software products, the Internet sites used to distribute each of these tools were compromised by attackers over the last few years.

With control of the sites, the bad guys replaced the downloadable installation package for each tool with a "Trojanized" version that included a backdoor bundled in the package. By placing their evil versions on the normal, trusted sites enterprises relied on to download their tools, the bad guys had hit upon the ideal mechanism to propagate their malicious code -- duping systems administrators to take the bait and install their wares for them.