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An "all-in-one" instant messaging client is an attractive idea. GAIM has come close to achieving that goal, but recently has had problems keeping up with changes in Yahoo's messenger service and some of the others, so I decided to take a look at Kopete. It's part of KDE, which means I already had it installed.

This week's TPBK [The People Behind KDE] travels to Laboe in Germany for a chat with one of KDE's more recent additions to the community. He has been an active developer since a year and has already managed to make his mark. He's known among friends for talking too much about too many things, is not very fond of green shorts and keeps his wife on a stable release. It's Till Adam!

Accel ICIM, provider of IT solutions and system integration, will very shortly set up Linux Competency Centers in Chennai and Delhi. These Linux competency centers, to be set up with an investment of Rs 2 crore, will enable ISVs to simulate client environments and critically analyze the solution offered, in terms of ease and performance prior to buying the product.

Magma-Branded PCI-to-PCI Expansion System to Support Red Hat Linux 9

Simplifies Deployment of Linux System Extensions...

FAT32 Support Added to Industry Long-Haul DR-DOS, Which Continues Market Growth in the Embedded Systems Market

Linux and DR-DOS Combined to Provide Embedded OEMs With Unprecedented Ease-of-Use, Interoperability, Stability and Systems-Level Footprint Size

Agility Network Services Platform and Applications for Linux Provide Carriers with Cost-Effective Options for Deploying Enhanced Voice and Data Services

Red Hat’s monopolistic hold on the Indian market, which has made the brand almost a synonym of sorts to the word ‘Linux’, is all set to change with the entrance of new flavors into the Open Source market. Altosys Software Technologies Limited, Chennai, is all set to release Red Flag in the Indian market by the second week of April.

Primoz Bratanic discovered a bug in libpam-psgl, a PAM module to authenticate using a PostgreSQL database. The library does not escape all user-supplied data that are sent to the database. An attacker could exploit this bug to insert SQL statements.

As noobies, you may not know all the rules about Linux. You may not even know that they exist. Here's the most important one: it's all about fun. At least, that's what Linus Torvalds, the man who invented Linux, credits as being his motivation for developing it. This week our focus is on fun: play, rec, and playing nice. So get out the wrenchs and remove those GUI-training wheels, gals and guys. We're going down to the CLI again.

Jeff Garzik offered a patch to libata that increases the maximum size of the requests sent to Serial ATA hardware. He explains, "With this simple patch, the max request size goes from 128K to 32MB... so you can imagine this will definitely help performance. Throughput goes up. Interrupts go down. Fun for the whole family." This lead into a lengthy and interesting discussion debating whether or not this was the best course of action.

A Yankee Group survey claims that Linux costs more than Windows to run. Companies are well aware that, though Linux is free or almost free to acquire, running costs are high, whether enterprises roll their own support or pay the "hefty premiums for must-have items like technical service and support, product warranties and licensing indemnification", the study said. Analyst and author Laura DiDio, who questioned IT managers and executives globally, said, "Corporate customers report Linux does indeed provide businesses with excellent performance, reliability, ease of use and security.

The company believes that enterprises and government organisations using Unix could save up to 80 per cent in deployment, maintenance and service costs by switching to Linux, while a switch from Windows to Linux could save up to 50 per cent.

It is a low-cost handheld PC on GNU/Linux working through a browser for international markup language IML 2.0, priced at Rs9000 (less than $200).

An updated squid package is avaliable that fixes a security vulnerability in URL decoding and provides a new ACL type for protecting vulnerable clients.

Remote buffer overflow vulnerabilites have been found in Courier-IMAP and Courier MTA. These exploits may allow the execution of abritrary code, allowing unauthorized access to a vulnerable system.

Mulitple overflows and vulnerabilities exist in Ethereal which may allow an attacker to crash the program or run arbitrary code.

The latest set of status reports includes updates from Link Toolbar, Feed Parser, CookieCuller, One Click, Email Vault for Mozilla (EVM) and Mozwho.

The minutes of the mozilla.org staff meeting of Monday 22nd March 2004 are now online. Issues discussed include Mozilla 1.7 final, Mozilla Firefox 0.9, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 and trademark policy.