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Sendmail working on sender authentication in war on spam
Sendmail, Inc., which claims that more than 60 percent of the world's email traffic runs on its messaging servers, announced Monday that it is developing and promoting sender authentication technologies that are designed to prevent email address spoofing, forging, and email fraud. The open source technology will follow Sendmail's milter (mail filter) plug-in framework.
Lawrence Lessig to speak on "The Creators' Dilemma"
The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), set for March 16-17 in San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel on Union Square, has added distinguished author and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig as opening day keynote speaker. Lessig's speech "The Creators' Dilemma: Open Source, Open Society, Open Innovations" will sketch the boundaries
Linux 2.2.26 aka "2.2 is not dead" released
...so here we go, 2.2.26 final. I am very proud to announce this because it fixes several of security bugs including the last mremap() bug, the longer known hashing exploit possibility in the network stack and /dev/rtc leakage.
Linux Gets Security Boost from NSA
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), also known as the codemakers and codebreakers cryptologic division within the Department of Defense, has helped to harden Linux with newly-released Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) kernel modifications.
Novell Launches New Certifications to Push Linux
The two programs are called the Certified Linux Engineer (CLE) program, and the SuSE certified Linux professional certification.
HP plans Opteron servers, AMD partnership
The Opteron systems initially will come with 32-bit versions of Windows or Linux. Within 60 to 90 days, 64-bit versions of Linux will arrive on the servers, and by the end of the year, Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows, HP said.
Multimedia-enabled app stack supports Linux-based mobile phones
Access is shipping NetFront Mobile Client Suite, a multimedia-enabled application stack for handset manufacturers that runs on Linux and other embedded operating systems. The suite features a Web browser, multimedia messaging client, personal information manager (PIM), SyncML client, SMIL player, and Java support.
Open source to run 50 per cent IT infrastructure in 5 years: MAIT
Information technology industry watcher MAIT has predicted that within five years, nearly 50 per cent of the software infrastructure could be taken up by open source software.
sco's year of living litigiously
The company is following the RIAA's lead and taking aim at users. Will it work?
Converting an existing development system to the 2.6 kernel
This whitepaper is the third in a series from TimeSys’s 2.6 Linux Resource Center on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the whitepapers in this series place special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel.
Debian Weekly News - February 24th, 2004
Welcome to this year's eighth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community.
Will Red Hat Take Linux to Enterprise Heights?
In North America, "Red Hat" has long been synonymous with "Linux." In the past few years, the company has shifted its emphasis to its "Enterprise Linux" line, which includes a workstation edition, a small-to-midlevel server offering, and a high-end edition able to run on anything from high-end x86 gear to mainframes.
U.MD. prof wins $500K grant to study open source software
The five-year award will allow Stewart to examine factors that influence successful uses and applications of open oource ooftware (OSS). The most commonly known OSS is Linux, an operating system considered a competitor to Microsoft's Windows.
Open Source: Winds Of Change In India?
The gradual ascent of open source technology in India formed the central focus of the one-day conference, "Open Source Software: A New Direction for India?' organized by the Manufacturers Association for Information Technology (MAIT), today, in Mumbai.
Mandrake Linux 9.2 for the AMD64 ISOs now available
Due to requests from MandrakeClub members, MandrakeSoft is pleased to announce that ISO images of Mandrake Linux 9.2 for the AMD64 platform are now available as BitTorrent downloads to Silver level (and above) Club members.
Apache and FSF to meet over GPL dispute
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) are at loggerheads over whether the ASF Apache web server software licence is compatible with the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).
BakBone Software joins OSDL
BakBone will participate in OSDL's Data Center Linux Working Group and bring enterprise Linux storage expertise to Lab initiatives
Motherboard Manufacturer Albatron Bundles LindowsOS
"Major hardware manufacturer Albatron is now shipping select micro-ATX motherboards bundled with LindowsOS 4.5 in an unprecedented move to deliver an easy way for consumers to realize the cost-savings that desktop Linux offers."
Mozilla browser for Linux Pocket PC
The Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project is focused on code-size and runtime footprint reduction, and porting to small consumer devices.
Mozilla 1.7 preview released
Mozilla has released the first "alpha" release of version 1.7.
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