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Embedded Linux tools vendor Trolltech AS has announced a strategic partnership with web browser software vendor Opera Software ASA through which the two companies will develop Linux products for the mobile communications and home entertainment markets.

I wrote briefly about securing MySQL last week and Andrew-J2000 suggested he was looking for a bit more depth into the clustering side of the scenario. I have recommended some additional links here for night-table reading to study up on some case studies, documentation and other miscellany involved with clustering MySQL.

It may mean nothing to you, but the Wienux distribution is now being rolled out in Vienna. The Austrian capital city of Vienna kicked off its soft migration to open source software on the desktop on Tuesday.

The Open Source Initiative welcomes the news that European Parliament voted overwhelmingly today (6 July 2005) to reject a proposal that would have permitted American-style software patents in Europe.

With Java and open source technology now as intertwined as they are, it's no surprise that many announcements out of last week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco had either a Linux or an open source slant.

As mentioned on the official webpage of the City of Vienna: a customized version of Debian with KDE, dubbed "Wienux" was chosen as the official alternative to MS Windows for the 18,000 PCs of the city. It is up to the individual workers to choose if they prefer a KDE Desktop or a Microsoft based system. The officials expect that about 4,800 machines can run KDE in the short term. Additionally, K3b is the official burning application of choice for "Wienux".

Adobe Systems on Tuesday issued a patch for vulnerabilities found in Unix and Linux versions of its Adobe Reader.

From his home in Calgary, Theo de Raadt leads an international team in developing world-class software—and gives it away. Here, he talks with The Epoch Times about why he does it, about industry use of open-source software, and about dedication to quality paying off. De Raadt’s team makes OpenBSD, an operating system, and OpenSSH, for secure communications.

You hear it all the time: Monitor your logs. When there is a problem, check the logs. And it's good advice, because system and application logs tell you anything you need to know, provided you actually look at them and understand what they are saying.

According to a recent study by Evans Data Corporation, more than a quarter of European developers using Visual Studio .Net as their primary development environment have written an application for Linux, and more than a third are likely to write a Linux application next year.

The use of open-source operating systems in enterprise servers is growing in Japan, with companies citing low introduction costs as the main factor for adoption, according to a recent report by the Japanese government.

The 6th annual Debian Conference will be held at the Computer Science department of the Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, Finland from July 9th to July 17th 2005. Debian and Free Software developers from countries around the world meet for a week-long series of intensive development, seminars and workshops. It is highly technical in nature.

Following a raft of open source enterprise service bus project announcements in the last two weeks, the Codehaus-hosted open source ESB project, Mule, has called for coordination of effort between the various groups.

Launching an open-source development effort isn't a pathway to riches. But for Mark Burton, founder of the GreenSocs initiative, it may be a way to bring SystemC-based tools and methodologies into the IC design mainstream.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island are nurturing an effort that might be the catalyst for widespread deployment of open-source software for state and local governments. The Government Open Code Collaborative already has released a half dozen sets of open-source code and is poised to develop e-government applications, officials directing the initiative said.

Nagios has unlimited configuration options, making installation and configuration complicated for administrators. Monarch is a configuration tool that enables system administrators to more easily and rapidly set up and maintain Nagios and GroundWork Monitor by allowing them to configure the system through a Web-based interface.

Jonathan Oxer was surprisingly candid about the state of affairs at Linux Australia, the organisation he leads. In his July 1 blog entry, Oxer openly questioned the group's survival, pointing out the obvious -- Linux Australia is stuck in no man's land.

Welcome to this year's 27th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. David Nusinow announced Debian packages for X.Org that he also planned to upload into unstable. Norbert Tretkowski has built backports for sarge. Rajiv Battula has published a small review of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 in which he demonstrates how simple installing Debian has become.

Welcome to our issue number 3 of Fedora Weekly News

South Africa's Water Research Commission(WRC) has chosen to use the open source Compiere ERP+CRM system for its enterprise fund management.