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Mozilla 1.7 RC 3 has been released.

SCO, which announced recently that its 2nd Fiscal Quarter 2004 earnings release and investor conference call, previously scheduled for June 2, 2004, hs been delayed until June 10, has gone onto the offensive against Sun's announcement last week that it intends to open-source Solaris. Sun could not just release Solaris under the GPL, says SCO, since Solaris is based on Unix System V, the source code to which is owned by The SCO Group.

A testing candidate of Mozilla Firefox 0.9 is now available from mozilla.org. There are a couple more bugs we'd like to fix for the 0.9 release but want to get as much feedback on the app in general before we go out. Please download this build and test with it and report any show stopping bugs that you find. We are still looking to do a 0.9 final sometime Monday.

Greedy computer hackers using open-source Linux machines could steal more than their fair share of bandwidth from Wi-Fi hotspots, Swiss computer scientists have warned. At the MobiSys 2004 conference in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, Imad Aad, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, outlined how changing just one line of code in the Linux operating system could allow hackers to monopolise the bandwidth at hotspots using the 802.11 standard.

Red Hat's newest hobbyist and developer version of Linux, Fedora Core 2, caused trouble for some who found they couldn't start Windows after installing the Linux upgrade side by side with it.

I want to write again about Richard Stallman's talk on the origins of the free software movement at the Yorktown High School Libre Users Group.

I'm sure everyone is sick of reading reviews of Suse 9.1 by now but perhaps this one is a little different. This is not an ordinary review in the sense that I don't provide lots of colourful screenshots, or ramble on endlessly about the included software versions and other trivial things. Written from the point of view of a Debian user trying to switch to an "easier" distribution, I concentrated on how Suse stacks up compared to some of the traditional Debian strengths.

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.