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The figures come from Net Applications, who put Firefox's share at 6.17 percent in February, up from 5.59 percent in January. The firm says that Microsoft Internet Explorer lost share in the same period, falling from 90.31 percent in December to 89.04 percent last month.

For SuSE desktop Linux fans, good news came out of that product's fatherland last week, as SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 was unveiled at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany.

This week, the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter carries news on freshly added howtos and manuals for the evergrowing collection of Gentoo documentation, has news from the user and developer communities, and invites you to join the Japanese Gentooists in their presence at the Open Source Conference in Tokyo's Japan Electronics College next weekend. More news come from the Gentoo in the press section, the Security Project rotated some of its staff, and last but not least, your Bugzilla statistics and the security alerts are to be found in this week's delivery. Enjoy reading!

M0n0wall is an open source firewall and wireless router developed by Manuel Kasper, built on a stripped-down FreeBSD operating system. M0n0wall offers many of the same features found in commercial firewalls products such as Check Point Firewall-1 and Cisco Pix, including stateful packet filtering. With it you can create a secure virtual private network (VPN) between two sites, or you can use m0n0wall as a VPN gateway, so you can access your LAN secure from the Internet. You can use RADIUS for client authentication in order to raise the security even higher.

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Package includes Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Linux Desktop, GroupWise server software and eDirectory.

Mobile Linux users face some interesting (OK, vexing) challenges when they want to plug into different networks. Any Linux system will easily support all manner of networking profiles--dialup, ISDN, Ethernet, wireless--the tricky bit is configuration.

Novell to Deliver New Product Features, 10-Year Extended Support Commitment and Pre-Bundled Linux With Upcoming Version of Leading Collaboration Product

Novell Linux Small Business Suite 9 is the Only Server-to-Desktop Linux Solution for Small Businesses, Delivering Enterprise-Class Benefits

New Version of Award-Winning ZENworks Suite Provides Full Lifecycle Management for Linux and Windows Systems

More Than 6,000 Attendees to Hear From Novell Executives, Customers and Analysts About Increased Customer Choice for Managing and Securing Enterprise Open Source Environments

Commentary: EDS, the giant computer services company, apparently doesn't like Linux much right now. EDS vice president of Global Alliances Robb Rasmussen recently told ZDNet Australia, "From a corporate perspective, we are not confident where Linux is right now today. A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment. We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. We are quite cautious about Linux and its deployment." Uh huh. But companies that issue anti-Linux statements like this often end up embracing Linux before long. That's why I want to extend a welcoming hand to EDS instead of getting upset over that egregious statement.

Mandrakesoft today announces adjustments in the 2005 Mandrakelinux release schedule. Several changes will occur: (1) a new release cycle for retail products, (2) a new naming scheme, (3) the integration of Conectiva's technology into Mandrakelinux, and (4) the immediate availability of a transitional product.

Confused by GRUB? Troubleshooters.com has published a "quick-start" guide about to the GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) Linux bootloader. According to Steve Litt, author of the guide, desktop Linux users are seldom familiar with their bootloaders, resulting in a big problem if their hard drive's MBR (master boot record) is overwritten. "Most grub documentation is difficult for those not familiar with grub," says Litt.

Following the trend of distributions scheduling themselves around KDE releases, Ark Linux has released their first stable version, Ark Linux 2005.1. The goal of Ark Linux is to build the easiest to use GNU/Linux distribution while keeping it technically sane.

Brainshare 2005 kicked off today in the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah. Over 6,000 attendees have registered for Novell's annual gathering of clients, partners, and vendors this year.

A Single Linux Binary Package Can Now Support All LSB Distributions for a Single Chipset Platform

Korea's Electronics Telecommunication Research Institute to Join OSDL Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux Working Groups and Promote Linux Development in Asia

In the last couple of years, the development teams of the various desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, have made great strides in the right direction to making the Linux desktop more attractive and visually pleasing. Just with a standard KDE install, I get the occasional "Hey, that looks nice" from friends. When I discovered a program named Karamba for KDE a while back, that suddenly changed to outright "Wow!"

Asa Dotzler has posted some links to release candidate builds of Mozilla 1.7.6. If no major problems are found, we can expect the final release of Mozilla 1.7.6 to occur early next week.