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Red Hat has named Timothy Yeaton as senior vice president of marketing, the top Linux seller said on Tuesday.

Novell Evolution (nee Ximian Evolution) has become a world-class email client. It's sleek, beautiful, and very powerful. Because it can do so many things, it can be a bit intimidating for first-time users. We put together this guide to help new Evolution users do one thing: filter the mail. Here is a brief overview of filtering and nine tips to help you take advantage of Evolution's sophisticated filtering capabilities.

Welcome to this year's 11th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Sean Finney uploaded the first version of the dbconfig-common package which implements a general database maintenance interface and is intended to be used by other packages.

The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming tool called GCC.

There are almost as many blogging tools out there as there are bloggers. In addition to closed source vendors such a Movable Type and Blogger, big players are entering the field, such as Microsoft with its MSN Spaces offering and the lesser-known .Text ASP.net toolkit. But even among both these, and the vast array of open source blogging tools, Wordpress rises above the others for being open source as it should be done.

It's time for the first test release in the Fedora Core 4 development cycle.

Battling browsers are back. Just as in the 1990s, when Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator fought each other for supremacy, today Mozilla's Firefox browser is trying to gain traction over IE.

The embattled SCO Group has released OpenServer 6 for beta testing, a new generation of a Unix operating system that previous owners have tried to phase out on at least two occasions.

CNET News.com has published a Knowledge@Wharton report about the battle between Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The study, which quotes a number of analysts employed by Wharton and others, argues that much of Firefox's growth can be attributed to concerns about IE's security record and the fact that Firefox does not have a "high geek factor" like many other open source products.

Periodically I hear someone say that Linux isn't suitable for graphic design work. One common complaint is its lack of an integrated system-wide color management system (CMS). Fortunately today's Linux systems have free cross-platform open source color management alternatives.

Setting up local network support for file shares, print serving and intranet services.

SSH Tectia Now Supports SUSE LINUX for Enterprise Servers

The Debian GNU/Linux project has proposed axing the number of computer architectures for which it actively develops, with Sparc and IBM's S/390 amongst the casualties.

Reports from several Gentoo events held over the last weekend, including the Gentoo UK conference in Manchester and a Linux fair in Southern Germany, are among the highlights of this week's edition of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter. Planet Gentoo, an aggregator for developer blogs, has been launched last week, and the announced sales of the Open Desktop Workstation have finally begun, too. A book by a Japanese Gentooist and yet another Gentoo introductory presentation at a local LUG in Germany complete the International section, press clippings from the UK and Germany show Gentoo's popularity again, and of course, our regular sections with excerpts from the developer mailing list, the Bugzilla statistics and the GLSAs are part of the GWN again this week.

Pioneer Petroleum is the largest independent gasoline retailer in Ontario, with 150 retail locations spread throughout the province. Twenty-five of those locations are running Red Hat Linux Workstation 3.0. The other 125 stores are expected to be rid of Windows by the end of 2005.

Have you ever wanted to brainstorm an intricate new system design using block diagrams on your Linux or Windows desktop? How about drawing an organizational chart, knowing full well that you will need to change it tomorrow? What you need is a program that makes it easy to create and edit line and shape objects. OpenOffice.org Draw might be just the ticket.

Astaro, a specialist in Linux-driven integrated security, has rolled out a product touted as the first on any operating system to combine network firewall protection with an anti-spyware gateway.

A new series focusing on the best desktop candidates for deployment in enterprises starts with a look at Xandros Business Edition.

Review: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4's security and scalability gains impress.

With Solaris 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the Unix and Linux camps share the same battlefield.