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Buffer overflows that are part and parcel of applications that run on the Linux platform may not get the same attention as their Windows counterparts, but they exist and are just as dangerous. Hackers can use a worm to overflow a memory buffer and execute code of their choice.

DLT Solutions Inc., which acts as a reseller of Raleigh-based Red Hat's products, has won a five-year contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide Red Hat Linux software to the entire Department of Defense.

Astaro achieves highest level of ICSA Labs Firewall Certification under Corporate Category

This afternoon I added general discussion forums to the website today. The planned use will be for discussing the site itself, and talking about general Linux issues that may or may not have made the news that day.

Iowa's Pottawattamie County government runs 17 servers containing relevant data for a suburban community of nearly 90,000 commuters. Just a year ago, those servers were mainly running Microsoft software, but a project to cut IT costs drove Thomas Broniecki, who serves as IT director there, to consider moving the county's databases to Linux.

In this role, Weinberg will work with Lab members, Linux users, press and analysts as an evangelist for Linux and OSDL programs. Previously, Weinberg was a founding team member at MontaVista Software, where he helped establish Linux as a platform for next-generation intelligent embedded device development. Weinberg's career has also included roles at Lynx Real-Time Systems, Acer Computer, and Microtec Research.

Can a company count on Linux to lower the total cost of ownership of an enterprise system? We talked to independent analysts, developers, and IT company executives. We must admit we were not surprised at what we found out.

How one businessperson created a database to track and store currency exchange rates.

...a new telephone system for firms with aging PBXs to connect remote branch offices, call centers, remote agents, mobile employees and remote sales and service operations. Redfone's new Enterprise Communication System (ECS) is highly scaleable, and available to firms ranging in size from two dozen employees to several hundred.

Sendmail to Deliver Message Management Software Worldwide with HP; Sendmail Software to Be Resold by HP Globally; Joint Anti-Spam Solution Rolled out in U.S. and Europe

Back in February of this year, Andrew Morten announced that cryptoloop was being deprecated in favour of dm-crypt. Although the initial announcement caused some consternation, dm-crypt was merged into the stable tree for the 2.6.4 kernel. This article looks at how to set up an encrypted partition using dm-crypt.

Gentoo Technologies, Inc., is no more. It is to be replaced from today by the Gentoo Foundation, an official not-for-profit entity registered successfully in the State of New Mexico.

Novell is an interesting company, and has only become more so since it decided to dive head first into GNU/Linux last year. Nat Friedman, formerly of Novell acquired Ximian and now the veep of Novell's Linux Technologies Group took some time to answer our questions about exactly where the company is heading with GNU/Linux.

[India based] Accel ICIM Systems & Services Ltd today said it was gearing up to capture a major share of business arising from companies converting their software systems to Linux operating systems.

Many tech-savvy users are abandoning Microsoft in favour of more reliable and secure operating systems from the open source community. But the company's dominance is also being challenged by the emergence of new devices with specific performance requirements, Michael Herman reports.

For those of you yearning to learn about Snort Intrusion Detection, here's the chance to do it on the cheap! Linux portal Mad Penguin (in conjunction with Syngress Media) is offering the chance to get a copy of their latest release 'Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection, 2nd Edition' completely free of charge. This is only lasting until the end of the month, so time is short to sign up. Visit Mad Penguin for more details. Additional note: books are signed by Adam Doxtater (co-author and founder of Mad Penguin).

What you do to back up your computers depends on the value of your data and how far you're willing to go. You can hold users responsible for their own backups. Alternatively, you can create and store backups on floppy disks, CDs, tape drives, and so on. You can back up part or all of the data, even in real time.

We're very pleased to announce the public release of Wasabi, a log file-monitoring tool that infrastructure dev Andrea Barisani wrote to replace oak. Wasabi watches a log file for lines matching a user-defined regular expressions and reports on the matches, sending an email as soon as an associated line is found, or reporting periodically.

Sun Microsystems scored a big sales win Monday, landing Canada's elementary and secondary schools as its latest customers for the open source-based StarOffice 7 office productivity suite. The Ontario Ministry of Education acquired StarOffice licenses for all the province's 72 public and Catholic school boards, making it potentially the largest StarOffice 7 delivery in North America. As a result, about 2.5 million students eventually will have access to one of the leading alternatives to Microsoft Office.