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Last week I had to move (and therefore reboot) a machine running Debian sarge (stable) which has a couple of FireWire drives attached to it. Last time I did this it all came up beautifully of its own accord; sadly not this time. The logs showed the nodes being recognised by the ieee1394 module, but not actually being mounted.

One is in france, and has limited capacity for non-debian-edu people left. Please let me know on what and with whom you want to work together if you want to take advantage of this opportunity. It takes place in temporal and physical proximity to fosdem.

Web hosting provider Verio will address the benefits of Linux Virtual Solutions to help businesses, developers and ISVs gain greater control and lessen IT headaches

[They are presenting there software solutions at SCALE 5x - Scott]

System-wide security solutions such as SELinux, AppArmor, Bastille and grsecurity can, in most cases, make your Linux desktop more than reasonably secure. But there are still cases where file or directory encryption is necessary. Here are some tools that can help you when you need to move files outside of your home computer, carry personal data around with you on a pendrive, or send email messages containing sensitive information.

The three-day Open Source event, LinuxAsia 2007 began in the capital amidst many surprises, including a prominent participation by Microsoft, which has traditionally been considered the bete-noire of the open source movement, showcasing interoperability between MS' proprietary platforms and OSS.

Sun Microsystems announced that the first version of a plug-in for converting MS Office documents to OpenDocument Format (ODF) will be available soon.

On February 7, the CHiC massive parallel Linux cluster with 2,152 processors distributed across 538 server nodes went into operation in Chemnitz . The new Revision F generation of AMD's Opteron CPUs, which support DDR2 RAM and AMD's "Secure Virtual Machine (SVM) virtualization technology, are used. Infiniband is used to connect the nodes, which are equipped with IBM server boards.

Recent research from open source software and services provider OpenLogic Inc suggests that businesses are taking a more managed approach to their adoption of open source software, with over half using an open source policy.

Canonical Ltd, the lead sponsor of the popular Ubuntu operating system, and Linspire, Inc. the developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name, today announced plans for a technology partnership that integrates core competencies from each company into the other's open source Linux offerings.

The merry month of March is just a few weeks away and foremost in the minds of those in the free and open source software community is the question of licences.

Concurrent Computer reports shipping its first VME/VXS system available with Linux. The "iHawk VME" system runs Concurrent's Red Hat-based RedHawk operating system for multi-processor x86 chips, and enables userspace software to respond to external events in under 30 microseconds, the company claims.

The KDE development team is working hard on the KDE 4 platform. KDE 4 will include many exciting new technologies which will greatly enhance the functionality of KDE. One of these new technologies is Decibel. We would like to give you an idea of what Decibel is all about.

Organizations running Linux in virtual machines on the mainframe will soon be able to throw more workloads onto the system thanks to an update to the z/VM operating system that now scales across 32 processor units, compared with the previous version that scaled to 24. The new release, z/VM Version 5.3, is expected to begin shipping on June 29, but IBM detailed updates to the operating system on Tuesday.

The move comes less than a week after Microsoft and its partners finished work on the Open XML Translator, an add-on to Microsoft Word that is available for download and use at no cost.

When it comes to troublesome Linux peripherals, WiFi takes the cake. Sparked by the Portland Project's efforts to bring standardization to the Linux desktop, the Linux wireless developer community tackled this problem at its second Linux Wireless Summit last month in London.

In an effort to bolster use of its open source middleware and license-free database software, IBM on Wednesday said it will provide free sales and marketing support to developers who create products for those offerings. Under the program, developers who create applications designed to run atop IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition or its DB2 Express-C database can sign up to receive free telemarketing time and discounted advertising rates underwritten by IBM.

Several weeks ago, desktop Linux distributor Linspire Inc. announced that it was going to open up CNR (Click N Run), its Web-based software downloader/manager, to other distributions. Now, the company is revealing more about what this new Linux software distribution system will look like.

You know what I'd like to see? I'd like the various Free software groups (whether they use "open source" or "free software" doesn't matter) get together to produce the greatest educational tool the world has ever seen: A website dedicated to Free / Open Source code. Not programs. Code.

Following more than two years of development, the Xfce project team recently released version 4.4.0 of its popular open-source desktop environment. Xfce 4.4 includes new tools, such as the Thunar file manager, as well as several significant improvements to its core components, according to the release announcement.

Citing increased demand from Web developers and their clients, a Toronto-based Web hosting company today said it would begin letting customers build and host Web sites running both Microsoft Windows and Linux applications at the same time.