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Purdue University Expands Advanced Computing Resources With SGI Technology

SGI Altix and InfiniteStorage Systems Will Speed Weather Modeling, Grid Computing 'Nano-Hubs' and Quantum Chemistry Calculations; SGI RASC Technology will Accelerate Genomics Codes and Seek Production Economies

Opera Browser Gets Fraud Protection

Opera Software is adding fraud and phishing protection to the next release of its free Web browser, version 9.1. The technology follows similar features coming in Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7, but takes a slightly different approach.

IMIA Open Source Group to co-sponsor LMN Award

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) will be co-sponsoring the Linux Medical News Freedom Award to be given at this years American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Open Source Working Group meeting on Monday November 13th at the Hilton Washington Towers in Washington, D.C. United States:"We are pleased to announce that, as from this year, the Open Source Health Informatics Working Group (OSWG) of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) will co-sponsor the Annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award." Read more for the full announcement. Note that the Linux Medical News Freedom Award is not an officially sponsored award of AMIA but it should be.

Novell Delivers Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise Built With Mixed Source Software and Systems From IBM

With More Than 700 Orders Worldwide to Date, Solution Brings Flexibility and Low Cost of Linux Into Windows Environments for File, Print, Database and Web Applications

New Linux/Unix Ranking Portal Is Online

Portal has a lot of features, including voting system, free IT (security too) articles and more. If you want to promote your distribution, you can register it and submit news which appear on the main site automatically. The readers can also submit news without login - it requires moderator's acceptance. Top Ten charts will be published in IT magazines (PHP Solutions, Linux+, en.hakin9.org, SDJ) every month. If you're looking for Linux that fits you perfectly - you'll find it on DistroRankings.com!

Mysql revamps enterprise open source database offering

The move sees MySQL's Network subscription offering renamed MySQL Enterprise, but it is more than just a re-branding exercise as the Uppsala, Sweden-based company has begun to roll out new services that make the database more enterprise-friendly.

UWC releases kForums bulletin board

Community bulletin board software built on the PHP-based KINKY framework adds multilingual support, multimedia handling and mindmapping to track discussions.

Oracle's mega-patch shuts 101 doors

Oracle today published the mother of all security patches containing 101 fixes for flaws in its database, application server, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft and JD Edwards applications. Almost half - 45 - of the flaws can be can be exploited by a hacker over a network, while at least six errors in the Oracle database http server can be exploited without the hacker requiring any user name or password. A re-assuring 22 database flaws do at least require some form of authentication.

Updated eBay tools leave Linux users in the cold

Online auction giant eBay is continually upgrading and supplementing its services, and that means frequent users periodically discover something new when they log in -- integrated PayPal, new messaging tools, and so on. I am one of those frequent users, and I recently discovered that the latest update to one of the core auction tools locks out Linux users.

Novell Promotes Tom Francese to Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales

President of Novell EMEA will now also oversee company's global sales, channel and alliances activities

Free Standards Group launches LSB Developer Network

The Free Standards Group (FSG) is scheduled to announce today its answer to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) -- the Linux Standard Base (LSB) Developer Network. The LSB Developer Network (LDN) will combine community content with original content in one convenient location to provide developers with information on writing portable Linux applications.

This week at LWN: Device drivers and non-disclosure agreements

Anybody who has been working with free software for any period of time knows that hardware support is often one of the community's thorniest problems. Manufacturers are often reluctant to tell their customers how to actually use the hardware they sell. For some strange reason, people buy that hardware anyway, and promptly want it to work with their operating system of choice. If that system is Windows, the manufacturer will usually provide a driver (of uncertain quality). Free software users, instead, are usually on their own.

Don't be afraid to change course during a project

This week I'm going to cover some of the things they don't teach you in systems analysis and design courses. If you recall, the aim for the project I was working on was to convert an old _ and I mean very old _ Excel 4 application (before Visual Basic) and convert it to a MySQL and PHP based application.

Linux powers small plane "glass cockpit"

FSMLabs reports that its real-time Linux distribution was used by Blue Mountain Avionics to build an electronic flight information system (EFIS) or "glass cockpit" for experimental aircraft. The EFIS/One offers dozens of solid-state instruments, digital autopilot, an air data computer, and a built-in flight recorder.

New KOffice release focuses on image editing and DBMS

KOffice 1.6, an update to the integrated office suite featured in the popular KDE desktop environment, is now available for download, and includes several significant enhancements. KOffice 1.6 also contains feature releases for its image editor Krita and its desktop database application Kexi.

Oracle Linux rumor puts pressure on Red Hat

The rumor that Oracle Corp is about to enter the Linux distribution business will not go away, with investment bank Jefferies and Co the latest to throw fuel on to the fire with the suggestion that Oracle could announce its strategy before the end of the month.

Kexi, Krita the stars of new KOffice 1.6

The rapidly-developing Kexi database application and Krita image editor tool are the key highlights of the latest version of the KOffice suite released yesterday by the KDE project team.

Exclusive: PlayStation 3 to run Yellow Dog Linux

Sony's PlayStation 3 set to move in on personal computers with the release of the Linux operating system for the device. Linux developer Terra Soft Solutions will today announce the launch of its Yellow Dog Linux operating system for the PlayStation 3 games console.

Linux boosts Mot to #1 PDA/smartphone vendor growth

Strong Linux smartphone sales in China helped Motorola achieve the highest overall year-on-year growth among the top five vendors in the PDA/Smartphone market, according to Gartner. In contrast, Motorola's Symbian- and Microsoft-based smartphones are "not making significant progress," Gartner reports.

Turning Ubuntu into Kubuntu

Chapter 20 from Marcel Gagné's new book Moving to Ubuntu Linux reprinted with permission of Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

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