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today unveiled the CodeWeavers Desktop Linux Certification Program, described by the company as "an ambitious effort that raises the Windows-to-Linux

software vendors signals a significant vote of confidence in the Linux Advantage and underscores the need for continued application-level Linux certification.

Red Hat, the company that sells the most widely used version of Linux, announced in February that it was working with Oracle to achieve EAL2 certification by

NEW YORK--Novell plans to announce Wednesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that SuSE Linux, the version of the open-source operating system it acquired

(nasdaq: NOVL - news - people) bought last week, said on Wednesday it received a certification for its Linux operating system that will open the door to more

use of Linux, IBM's developerWorks site, IBM's resource for developers, is expanding its support for Linux with new content, hands-on training, certification Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Red Hat http://www.

Fedora forums and have officially recognized forums for Arch, CollegeLinux, Conectiva, DamnSmallLinux, Debian, Libranet, Linux From Scratch, Mandrake, Slackware

Foundation, HP, IBM, KDE.org, Komodo, Lone Star Software Corp., Mandrake Software, Mindbridge Software, Mozilla.org, Mutt, MySQL, NeTraverse, Oracle, Red Hat

A Perth-based open source consulting company has told the SCO Group that unless it details, by February 1, the specifics of what it claims are IP violations in

For the last 2 months I run Mono and GTK# on my Slackware 9.1 installation, trying to learn GTK#, and I have to say that I am very impressed by it so far.

members themselves. Stanton currently uses Gentoo. Other members use Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, and Slackware. The members Slackware

Updated mc packages that resolve a buffer overflow vulnerability are now available.

has stepped down as organizer of the annual GNU/Linux Summit and transferred the event to the Junior Chamber organization, citing the need for an independent

A California college student is planning to develop a new electronic voting system based on open-source software created in Australia.

21, 2004--MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, and Zend Technologies, designers of the PHP Web scripting engine, today

The shiny-new, still beta-level OSAIA (Open Source and Industry Alliance) Web site says the Washington DC-based group "represents the interests of the broad

Mr. Patrik Hornik discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in slocate version 2.6. The vulnerability corrupts heap management structures and possibly leads to gaining slocate group privileges, which allows reading the global slocate database and thus obtaining a list of all files in the system by an unauthorized user.

Red Hat (Quote, Chart) announced Wednesday a new provisioning module that will be deployed as part of the Red Hat Network (RHN).

SCO is continuing to press its unfounded vendetta against open source software to Congress. Repeating the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt that the company has spread through past letters and lawsuits, SCO executives are telling Congress that open source software in general, and specifically, the General Public License (GPL), which protects most open source software is a threat to the U.S. information technology industry; a threat to U.S.' competitive position; and a threat to national security. All of these assertions are false.

This is the third in a series of reviews of Debian-based distributions. The first review looked at LindowsOS 4.5. The second examined newcomer MEPIS Linux. This time it's all about Xandros, one of the oldest of the commercial Debian-based distributions. Since its release last month, Xandros 2.0 has been garnering rave reviews. To learn why it didn't earn another here, keep reading.