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Mozilla Firefox 1.0 appears to have been downloaded over one million times on the day of its release, based on preliminary data.

Denial of service (DoS) attacks aim to take down Web servers and other Internet resources, often by swarming them with repeated requests, which knocks them out. LaBrea is honeypot software that cooks up a fake machine with virtual ports with virtual vulnerabilities for a cracker to play with.

SourceForge Enterprise Edition lets scientists and developers at the Navy's weather center collaborate within the safety of a firewall.

Red Hat is expanding in China, opening its first office in the world's most populous country to tap growing demand for the computer software that it sells. The Raleigh company, the biggest distributor of the Linux operating system, plans today to announce the facility in Beijing. It will initially focus on sales and education efforts.

More Aussie companies are getting advice about the use of open source software in mission-critical areas of their operations. According to a leading brief at Phillips Fox the number of inquiries his outfit is getting on Open Source is better than it has ever been.

The age of Linux maturity has begun, and the days of waiting for enterprise applications will soon be over, says Alan Nugent, chief technology officer and senior vice president, Novell Inc. of Waltham, Mass. He covers the enterprise Linux application territory, from what's missing to what's hot, in this interview.

When a parasite is faced with a change in environment, it too will change or perish. While Microsoft Windows is the platform of choice for viruses and other malware, parasite writers are starting to smell fresh blood elsewhere. Numerous metrics indicate that Linux is charging full speed into the desktop market. According to an IDC report, businesses and government departments will spend $98 million on services to support their Linux systems in 2004. By 2008, the figure is predicted to increase to $228 million.

Linux distributions for the consumer desktop may be imperfect; but Indian developers have already created some compelling applications, especially in local languages.

This week saw the latest release of Red Hat's community-based Linux distribution, Fedora Core 3. While not a business release—and indeed Fedora has no official support from Red Hat Inc.—Fedora serves as a proving ground for ideas that may eventually make their way into RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).

Most Linux users know how easily they can run a Web server on their favorite distros. Unfortunately, serving pages is one thing -- finding them is another. That's when many users turn to ht://Dig.

Many of the most vocal open-source evangelists have been pinning their hopes on the public sector to gain a foothold against Microsoft. So the news that government users can now purchase Microsoft licences at an even lower price - thanks to the latest NHS contract invoking a new volume discount level - will be seen as a blow to their hopes.

The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology.

It's official! Linux is the world's fastest growing operating system, and with version 2.2 Trustix continues to demonstrate day on day why this is so.

If you're ready to give video editing and movie making a try now that you know about Kino, here are some tips to get you up and running.

As the SuperComputing 2004 show kicks off in Pittsburg this week, Linux technology will be well represented among the big honking processor, storage and networking technologies on display.

The South Australian Democrat, who last year introduced a bill into state parliament to amend state software procurement policies, has again raised the issue of the government taking up the open source option.

A number of changes have been made to Security Enhanced Linux in Fedora Core 3--here's what you should know.

Red Hat Inc's Fedora Project community has introduced version 3 of the Fedora Core Linux operating system, including changes to the SELinux policy that enables users to target the most vulnerable programs.

Some tips for figuring out what all the startup messages flying by your screen actually mean.

Every organization requires some type of a network site security policy that will protect the organization's valuable assets -- everything from systems to data. The policy guidelines presented here will help you to establish an enterprise-wide program for how internal and external users will interact with a company's computer network, how the corporate computer architecture topology will be implemented, and where computer assets will be located.