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Linux Hosts Post Strongest February Growth
Linux-based hosting operations posted the strongest hostname growth in February, capturing the top three spots and seven of the top 10 in our monthly Hosting Switching Summary.
California State University chooses Linux for hosting center
The College of Business at the California State University in Chico selected SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server to maintain its widespread hosting services. Today the school not only hosts SAP and SUSE for their students, they host similar installations for 13 other universities around the world, and they are the front-line tech support center for all 120 SAP charter business schools in North America.
The Luxury of Ignorance -- Part Deux
A followup to "The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story" in which I discuss the community reaction, develop the concept of the luxury of ignorance further, and call for a sea-change in attitudes towards UI.
Study claims Linux most hacked but ignores malware
In what appears to be an econometric approach to the analysis of server compromises and website defacement, a London-based group is claiming that Linux is the most breached online server and the BSDs and Mac OSX the safest.
[Australian] National OSS group launched
Con Zymaris from Open Source Victoria said Open Source Industry Australia had been developed as a response to increasing demand from governments, corporates, educational institutions and open source providers for the Melbourne-based group's services.
Better software buying & open source needed says Public Accounts ...
Open Source software, already in widespread use for server applications, may in future provide departments with a viable alternative to existing software suppliers for a broader range of functions including desktop applications, opening up the marketplace to wider competition and potential improvements in value for money.
IBM releases new Java structure analysis tool
IBM has been busy on the free-for-download development tool front in recent weeks. Its latest offering, released today on AlphaWorks.com, is a new Structural Analysis Java tool that automatically detects and pinpoints architectural weaknesses -- and even potential weaknesses -- in Java applications.
Desktop Linux wins powerful supporters
At the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston, Red Hat and IBM detailed their desktop Linux plans. And the Open Source Development Lab, which so far has concentrated on Linux for the data storage and processing computers called servers, expects to launch a new group to concentrate on desktop needs starting next year.
Gentoo Linux 2004.0 Released
Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for the x86, AMD64, PowerPC, Sun SPARC, and SGI MIPS architectures.
February Mini Book Reviews
Last month, Pat read about some classics: Perl, Python, PHP and MySQL... Over the past month, I've read four books that I wanted to review for you: Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules, Text Processing in Python, Core PHP Programming, 3rd Ed. and MySQL 2nd Ed.. All of them are good books for the audience each is trying to hit. Take a look below for some more information.
Actuate Announces Support for Linux
Companies seeking to cost-effectively distribute information to a broad set of users can now utilize the low-cost of Linux in combination with Actuate Enterprise Reporting Applications to ensure 100% adoption of decision-making information into day-to-day activities, thereby improving corporate performance.
Debian alert: New libapache-mod-python packages fix denial of service
The Apache Software Foundation announced that some versions of mod_python contain a bug which, when processing a request with a malformed query string, could cause the corresponding Apache child to crash. This bug could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
LXer Weekly Security Roundup - Feb 23, 2004 to Mar 01, 2004
There were 15 security alerts issued last week:
- 5 from Debian
- 1 from Fedora
- 1 from Immunix
- 3 from Mandrake
- 1 from Mozilla
- 2 from Red Hat
- 1 from SUSE
- 1 from Trustix
Sweda Announces Linux Version of Aurora Supermarket POS Application
Open Source Version of Proven Performer Delivers Major Cost Benefits to Grocers
KDE Traffic #75 is out
KDE Traffic #75 is out with news regarding KDE's future, KDE Edu, HTML message composition for KMail and more. In case you missed the previous edition, which wasn't announced on the dot due to personal problems, follow the link to KDE Traffic #74. [Thanks to KDE.news.]
Novell ready for bite of China's Linux market
Novell is set to make inroads into China’s Linux market this year, after partnership talks with major Chinese Linux vendor RedFlag and the unveiling of its Linux products.
China targets Microsoft with software law
Officials say a new law will be announced by this summer requiring a minimum percentage of software bought by the government be produced in China. That's crucial in a country where the government accounts for 25 percent of the $30 billion software market.
Get a free listing in gov't open source reference -- but hurry!
The deadline for the Open Source Reference Book 2004 published by The Center of Open Source and Government is March first. Listings are free, and almost any kind of open source-oriented business, non-profit group or open source project qualifies for inclusion.
Mozilla Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Reported and Fixed
roseman wrote in to tell us about a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mozilla, which was discovered and fixed in December last year. An advisory from Secunia refers to the flaw as "Less critical", while a SecurityTracker note gives more precise details of the bug, which could allow a malicious site to read another site's cookies or access other data recently submitted by the user.
Mozilla Firefox on Sharp Zaurus PDA
The pdaXrom team, found at www.pdaXrom.org, has been successful in making Mozilla Firefox run on the Sharp Zaurus series PDA (at the moment only the C7X0 series), which means that users now can use this wonderful browser for 'pocket browsing'. :-)
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