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Microsoft has indeed been starting to show up at Linux events claiming to have become kinder and gentler, but by bankrolling a workshop intended to provide guidance on OSS deployment its surely veering into excess of philanthropy territory.

The French government will install open source software on the desktop as part of Project ADELE, a plan to computerize much of the country's administration by 2007, a government official said Wednesday.

The Gallery developers have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in Gallery 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4 and 1.4.1 which can a remote exploit of your webserver.

A bug in get_real_string() function allows for a Denial of Service attack to be launched against the webserver.

Exploitation of a buffer overflow in the XFree86 Project Inc.'s XFree86 X Window System allows local attackers to gain root privileges.

It Anticipates Income of $2 Million from Activities and Services in the Linux Environment

Raleigh-based Red Hat has named Israel-based Matrix as the main distributor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux software and services in the Israeli market.

DesktopLinux.com interviews Raimo Koski, the founder of Finland-based Lineox Linux. Offering a Linux distribution based on Red Hat's software, Lineox reduces the cost of Linux by eliminating many of the production fees associated with boxed sets and bundled support programs. Koski explains Lineox's unique approach and how customers can benefit from regional support.

IBM's plan to recruit Microsoft NT users to IBM and Linux may be viewed by some as laughable. But Big Blue couldn’t be more serious about the open source platform. IBM says the rising number of ISVs moving to open source is proof that it has a chance at converting thousands.

I'm impressed with this tiny, 100-percent free, open-source OS written in assembly. You programming buffs know that assembly, pretty much the mother of all languages, can work blistering fast when used correctly.

Spending on Linux will climb by as much as 10% at enterprises surveyed recently by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.

What's hard about free software is that it makes the necessary losses more explicit. On the other hand, investing in free software is made easier because its benefits flow more immediately and obviously to the same ultimate beneficiaries as the other technological advances--everybody.

Sun Microsystems plans to create more awareness and usage of open source with the rollout of its open source-based Java Desktop System (JDS) to secondary schools and institutions of higher education. The JDS, which was introduced late last year, consists of a fully integrated client environment based on open source components and industry standards and provides a complete desktop environment and productivity tools which includes the GNOME desktop environment, StarOffice Office Productivity Suite and a Linux operating system.

Linux customers should ignore SCO's legal threats until a court decision is reached in its copyright litigation with Novell, according to a paper published by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).

Red Hat is providing Telefonica Deutschland with its Enterprise Linux as the German company’s platform of choice for business operations

Mutt-1.4.2 has just been released; this version fixes a buffer overflow that can be triggered by incoming messages. There are reports about spam that has actually triggered this problem and crashed mutt.

The city of Schwäbisch Hall used toy penguins and gender competitiveness to persuade workers to accept the switch to desktop Linux

In 1999, I editorialized that the browser was the battleground that would win or lose us the whole thing. 4 years later, it is time to update the article with a slightly more optimistic view.

Many improvements have been made in the Linux 2.6 kernel to favor enterprise applications. This article presents results from the IBM Linux Technology Center's Web serving testing efforts, comparing the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels from various aspects. The highlights here are the key enhancements in the 2.6 kernel, the test methodologies, and the results of the tests themselves. Bottom line: the 2.6 kernel is much faster than 2.4 for serving Web pages, with no loss in reliability. [ Link via LWN.net]

New mutt packages that fix a remotely-triggerable crash in the menu drawing code are now available.