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For the first time in five years MandrakeSoft, which produces the very popular Mandrake Linux distribution, has shown a quarterly profit. 10-15 minutes.

As for remarks that switching may not be easy for some, Ruiz compared getting used to GNU/Linux to going to a country for the first time and spending the usual few days to find one's way around.

"Consider this: The tiny Lindon software company and the world's largest computer company can't even agree on why Friday's key hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells was postponed."

Use of proprietary software for computerisation of government departments involves major security risks, proponent of free software Richard M Stallman said here on Friday.

IBM has published the following eight technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its developerWorks Website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics. Some require free registration. Enjoy . . .

Diamond Systems has launched a "three-in-one" EBX form-factor single-board computer (SBC) that integrates a P-III processor, DC-DC converter, and analog I/O data acquisition circuit on the same board. The board supports Linux, and targets transportation and military/aerospace applications where high integration, ruggedness, and power supply compatibility are key.

Wednesday morning Novell came up with a formal retort to SCO filing suit against it. Basically an exercise in name-calling. It said

Questions raised about the legality of code contributed to Linux over the years also evoked diverse reactions from roundtable participants.

Nigel McFarlane, author of Rapid Application Development with Mozilla , writes: "Supporting reports and 'Hands On' example code are now available for download

services/products. My thanks to Dirk and Rackspace for that. I have been using PHP for several years. I like it. I like it a lot. I

A vulnerability was found in the jabber program where a bug in the handling of SSL connections could cause the server process to crash, resulting in a DoS (Denial of Service).

A vulnerability was discovered by Patrik Hornik in slocate versions up to and including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer.

After saving a project which has subordinate tasks, loading the project again will cause mrproject to crash with a segmentation fault. The updated packages correct the problem.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- With Google rumored to be on the eve of a $4 billion IPO, Web search technology is attracting a lot of attention from technologists and business people alike. Doug Cutting, president of open source search software project Nutch.org thinks he has the next big thing in search: open source.

A vulnerability was found in the jabber program where a bug in the handling of SSL connections could cause the server process to crash, resulting in a DoS (Denial of Service).

A vulnerability was discovered by Patrik Hornik in slocate versions up to and including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer. This could be exploited by a local user to gain privileges of the 'slocate' group. The updated packages contain a patch from Kevin Lindsay that causes slocate to drop privileges before reading a user-supplied database.

By Joanne Cummings. JBoss announced that its Java-based open source Web site content management system (CMS) will be available for free download in February. that open source Linux continued to pose a threat to its Windows operating

"Digital video products and technology specialist Sentivision is shipping an H.264 decoder for Texas Instruments MD64x digital media processors that it says can bring DVD-quality, real-time video-on-demand (VoD) to Linux systems over broadband and wireless Internet connections. The system supports encryption/authentication, and integrates with Sentivision reference designs encompassing server- and client-side hardware and software for IP TV operators."

In defense of the General Public License it created and with SCO on the edge of suing a big Linux end user, the Free Software Foundation took to the pulpit

"UnitedLinux, a four-company consortium formed to counterbalance Red Hat's dominance in the Linux market, is all but dead."