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The curl command-line utility is a fantastic way to download data from all kinds of repositories via HTTP, FTP, LDAP, and more. It's not just a utility, though. The back-end library libCURL allows you to make your programs URL aware, publishing and retrieving data over HTTP and http://FTP. Ethan McCallum demonstrates how easy it is to use.

As Sun counts down to the June 30 deadline for releasing the full Solaris 10 codeset to Open Source, Open Enterprise Trends spoke with the Sun exec responsible for the hand-over. OET asked Sun’s Operating Platforms Group vice president Tom Goguen key questions submitted by IT and OEM execs about how OpenSolaris might change their IT shops, the way they deploy and upgrade software, and the way they work with Sun.

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A small group of free software advocates has released a declaration of intent to create the Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA). Aided by both the FSF and FSF Europe, the organizing committee hopes to both address regional concerns and to work with other branches of the FSF to promote and defend free software internationally.

Today, PC system security is paramount. Hackers, viruses, and malware usually target Windows systems, so using Linux moves you off the bull's-eye. Execute from a LiveCD and your system becomes nearly invulnerable; any damage done can be corrected by a simple reboot. That's part of why my current distro of choice is Kanotix 2005-2 LiveCD. I wanted a KDE-based distro for its simple, Windows-like appearance to help the "Windows-only" family members with whom I share the PC. And since we require many applications, we needed a full-featured distro and access to additional applications if necessary.

Free software could appear in more UK schools now that Schoolforge-UK and the Open Source Consortium have teamed up

Microsoft's new spirit of acceptance of Linux and open source seems to be filtering through the ranks, with its GM of competition taking a pragmatic stance.

Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that its latest Fibre Channel host bus adapter driver version 8.0 is now part of the Linux "upstream" kernel published by the Linux community, effective with kernel version 2.6.12-rc3. As a result, Emulex customers adopting Linux-based storage solutions may utilize the Emulex kernel contributions across any distribution, complementing the Emulex driver support already included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Flag Data Center.

The firm will roll out Linux across all of the Industrial Commercial Bank of China's 20,000 branches and 1,000 global subsidiaries

Even if a major lawsuit were filed tomorrow, open source would still have an outstanding track record of avoiding intellectual property infringement, compared to proprietary software, which is the subject of frequent infringement claims.

Open source software has consistently raised political attention across the globe, and continues to leave most uncertain regarding how viable to consider open source for their needs. Our analysis will offer a new perspective on the impact of open source solutions, together with a pragmatic and strategic overview of open source technologies, and how they must align within your agency environment.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will complete its release of Solaris software code in the next 45 days, completing an effort the company began last year, a Sun official said yesterday. Sun's release of Solaris as open-source software is an effort to expand the number of Solaris users and counter Linux and Windows growth in the data center. The first part of the code, a utility called D-Trace that was designed to improve application performance, was released earlier this year.

ImageMagick (IM) is a command-line graphics creation and editing application. In a previous article we used it to add text and frames to images, and for other basic image manipulation. In this article we'll use the ImageMagick suite of commands to create a multi-image mosaic, draw some basic shapes, and create 3D logos.

Dr. Ignacio Valdes is celebrating five years on the Web with LinuxMedNews.com, a site that is devoted to Linux and open source software stories related to the medical community. Rob Reilly spoke with Valdes to find out how Valdes manages this site and why his such a big proponent of Linux.

Microsoft finally gave a nod to Linux last week when it announced that its Virtual Server 2005 server virtualization software would support the open source operating system.

DesktopLinux.com had questions, and 3,841 readers chimed in with their answers. We've gathered the data on distributions, window managers, email clients, web browsers, and more in the 2004 Desktop Linux Market survey -- and some of the results are surprising! Review our editors' observations, analysis, and prognostications, and weigh in with your own analysis of the data using the talkback thread provided!

Last week in our regular News Perspectives newsletter, your correspondent asked what the next step was for the free and open source community. This week, I asked Linux Australia (LA) vice-president Pia Waugh to elaborate on her recent remarks to linux.conf.au about code and culture in the open source community.

Wireless LAN (WLAN) chipset maker Atheros Communications has released one of its key security technologies to the open source community. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company submitted code for its JumpStart for Wireless security configuration software to SourceForge.net for use by anyone in the wireless LAN industry. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has already certified the code for JumpStart for Wireless.

NVU is the open source community's first WYSIWYG HTML editor, slated to be released shortly. After testing the release candidate software, I like what I see. It's clearly not yet the product it's capable of becoming, but it already has a lot of functionality, as well as a lot of promise.

I read a fascinating article in The Inquirer (not the one from Florida, the one from the U.K.) last week. In it, IT gadfly Nick Farrell documents his attempts to install SuSE Linux 9.3 on his home computer (see editorial links below). You'll appreciate it, because it will reflect the opinion of many of your users should you install the full bore of Novell Linux Desktop on their machines.