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Immediate ROI: How a Linux-based financial system paid for itself in three months
There's always time to hear how Linux can step right in and help an organization make or save money right away, right? To that end, here's another segment of our Immediate ROI series: a cheerful, real-life story with a good ending for your reading pleasure.
Now They Own It, Now They Don't: SCO Sues Novell to Stay Afloat
The SCO licensing campaign--which has been all bark and no bite since its introduction by way of threatening letters to the Fortune 1500 last summer--lost a wheel last month, and is now headed for the wall.
Mozilla Trots Out Firefox Browser
The Mozilla Foundation released a new version of its open source Web browser this week, with improvements to its download manager, extension, and bookmark handling, along with a new name aimed at skirting trademark complaints from another open source project.
Insight II and Catalyst Now Available on Linux
Insight II and Catalystare now available as both clients and servers with certification on the latest IBM IntelliStation® workstations running Red Hat Linux.
OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO Lawsuit with Novell
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today published a position paper that indicates Linux customers will likely ignore SCO Group's legal threats until a court decision is rendered in the litigation brought by SCO Group against Novell on copyright ownership.
NHS to begin Sun desktop Linux trials
The NHS is to begin trials of a desktop Linux software suite in a move it says could free up money for the frontline health service and save taxpayer millions of pounds.
German finance ministry division chooses Linux
A division of the German finance ministry has moved its back office operations to mainframe computers that run Linux, in the latest victory for the upstart operating system in Europe, IBM said on Tuesday.
What you need to know to write man pages
Despite the frequent attempts at competing formats, manual pages remain the core of standard Unix documentation. Users often prefer manual pages to other forms of documentation, and a well-written manual page is a valuable addition to any open-source project. This article discusses the issues faced in developing and writing manual pages, and a few quirks that you may encounter along the way.
The Tk Canvas Widget
The canvas widget in the Tk toolkit is a powerful free software tool for creating and manipulating structured graphics.
Guardian Digital Launches Next Generation EnGarde Secure Linux
EnGarde Secure Linux features the Guardian Digital WebTool, a web-based interface used to securely manage network and server operations. Emphasizing increased security, performance, and an available 2.6 Linux kernel, and new security features.
Another German authority goes with Linux
The German Federal Finance Office has signed up with Linux in what supplier IBM is calling one of the largest Linux-based mainframe deployments in Europe.
Amanda - Creating Successful Backups
Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver;
is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive.
Firefox 0.8 is the release that won me over
Has Mozilla Firefox finally broken the speed and stability barriers in order to bring about a browser change to this long-time Galeon user? After all this time, Firefox finally won me over and caused me to change my regular web browser.
Gentoo Weekly Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 6
The weekly edition of the Gentoo newsletter is now available.
From the Editor, March 2004: Desktop Success Is in the Details
Here's how to clean up the little obstacles that are keeping your company away from desktop Linux.
Country Energy bets business on open source
When David Peters faced the prospect of dwindling platform and application support for Country Energy's proprietary Unix systems he took a step towards migrating the company's core business systems to open source software.
Open Source Attracts 1.1 Million Developers
"There are more than 1.1 million developers in North America spending at least some of their time working on Open Source development projects, according to Evans Data Corporation's new North American Developer Population Study."
MontaVista boasts banner year, claims embedded Linux leadership
MontaVista Software ended its 2003 fiscal year with revenue growth of 77 percent over the previous year, it says, producing 500 design wins for the year and becoming cash-flow positive in the fourth quarter of 2003, ahead of plan.
Real-time Linux puts jet engine to test
The trend to adopt real-time versions of embedded Linux got a boost last week, when aircraft engine builder Pratt & Whitney revealed that it used a Linux-based software kernel to test its new F135 engine, which will power the U.S. military's Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.
Arabella Software Announced Linux support for MPC885
"...today announced the availability of Linux support for the Motorola (NYSE: MOT) MPC885 PowerQUICC™ family of communications processors. Arabella provides a free Linux reference design for the Motorola MPC885ADS evaluation board."
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