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After storming into the Linux software market with its acquisition of Ximian and SUSE Linux, Novell decided it's finally time to show off. The Novell Linux Day roadshow began its 11-country tour in India last month, sending a clear signal of the South Asian country's importance to big open source players like Novell.

About a year ago, Scott McNealy said something that struck me as subtly wrong. I didn't think much about it at the time, but as I've been helping SDForum put together this year's Distinguished Speaker Series, I've been thinking about it more and more.

Microsoft's E-mail-filter technology, Sender ID, is unpopular with open-source advocates but popular with spammers, who are using it to bypass other filters.

In an effort to vault its Power processors into more widespread use, IBM plans to announce Monday a new, inexpensive server line called OpenPower that can run just the Linux operating system, CNET News.com has learned.

IBM and the Brazilian government announced Thursday that they have signed a cooperation agreement to establish a knowledge and technology center, known as CDTC, which will promote and develop open-source and Linux solutions in Brazil. The first fruits of IBM and Brazil's partnership is a new technology center that will provide open-source software educational support.

IBM Corp. will spend more than $1 million to help fund a Linux technology center in Brazil. The center, created in conjunction with the Brazilian government, aims to train 700 public service professionals on the use of Linux by year's end.

ShaoLin Microsystems is now offering a free download of its "Fit Client" enterprise Linux desktop network computing environment, ShaoLin Aptus. The software offers a simplified deployment and management approach to running Linux for businesses, according to the Hong Kong-based company.

IBM has rolled out a new version of its database software aimed at users of Linux and Unix that it hopes will help the company take away market share from Oracle. IBM said the latest version of its DB2 software that runs on Linux and Unix automatically self-manages databases, allowing companies to better manage, process and retrieve data such as product pricing.

Finnish software maker Lineox now includes the latest source code updates from Red Hat. As part of its mission to provide the latest software, Lineox's "Always Current Linux" program is touted as offering a migration path for IT administrators who want to upgrade their legacy Red Hat systems.

Australia's Open Source industry body, Open Source Industry Australia, today said it was pleased that all the major parties had made significant open source announcements within a week of a survey request from the organisation.

Hawaii schools, affected by lean budgets like many other US states this year, have upgraded their computer systems through the help of the open source community and Linux. A local nonprofit, the Oahu-based Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation (HOSEF) has supplied over a dozen Hawaiian schools with computers "recycled" with the Linux operating system and raised awareness of OSS.

Software patents are the software project equivalent of land mines: Each design decision carries a risk of stepping on a patent, which can destroy your project.

Linux vendors get failing grades in Linux community relations.

The popularity of pre-packaged Linux servers continues to roll on. The market for server hardware shipping with Linux reached more than $900 million in the second quarter of this year, according to research firm IDC. Revenue grew by almost 50% from the same quarter a year ago, and numbers of units shipped were up 38%.

The bad news is, it's SpamAssassin, not SpammerAssassin. The good news is it kills spam quite effectively, and fits nicely into an anti-spam, anti-virus gateway. This article, which shows how to use SpamAssassin with Postfix, is the first in a series on building an anti-spam and anti-virus gateway. This gateway works equally well for a single PC, or for a large network, and it's built of four components:

Dublin, Calif.-based Sybase, the veteran IT company best known for PowerBuilder and a score of middleware products, has joined a growing list of companies in releasing open source databases and other software to lure more customers to their premium products. To the company's credit, it is not releasing a second-hand piece of software, as IBM did last month with Cloudscape, a leftover from the Informix catalog.

Following up on an earlier NewsForge story, we recently exchanged email with LT. Phil Geiger -- medical officer with the Third Batallion, Sixth Marines in Iraq -- about the current status of their efforts to establish an unofficial wireless network to allow Marines to communicate more often and more easily with friends and families. This self-help project -- with volunteer assistance -- is now operational, but the Marines could use more assistance.

During the process of writing my book, SpamAssassin, I began to use the beta and release candidate versions of the soon-to-be-available SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (SA 3), so I could be sure that the book would cover any differences. This major release is anticipated to occur in the next month or two. What new features can administrators expect? We'll take a look at a few in this article.