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Like many (if not most) open source developers, I use Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager, for all of my newsletter requirements. Recently, however, I began playing with a different one-way announcement-type newsletter mailer. It's called PHPlist, and as you might guess, in contrast to Mailman, it's not Python powered. Beyond the language difference, it adds a number of useful default features, including email from RSS feeds and sophisticated user management that really extends the power of an announcement-based mailing list.

Representatives from three of Australia's major political parties are expected to detail their policies on open source, Linux and open standards at an industry group conference early next month.

MEN Mikro Elektronik claims to be one of the first European embedded computer suppliers to join the MontaVista Linux software certification program.

Several organisations will celebrate Saturday's International Software Freedom Day by hosting open source events around the country. The Go Open Source campaign and various Linux user groups will host open source install fests in all major city centres around the country, at which members of the public are invited to bring in their PCs and have open source software installed under the guidance of a trained specialist. The events will also feature displays of the latest available software.

A U.K. advertising standards body has warned Microsoft that its 'Get the Facts' ad campaign claiming Linux isn't cheaper than Windows could be misleading.

Life without Microsoft's Windows: Michael Pollitt tests the open-source option

The second day of aKademy, KDE's World Summit 2004, opened the two-day developers' conference, involving a series of presentations and discussions both on ground-breaking topics like KJSEmbed and other subjects important to KDE. When not attending the two parallel tracks of presentations, KDE developers took the opportunity to socialise and hack in the comfortable surroundings of Ludwidgsburg's Filmakademie.

For your next DIY project, pick up an old Pentium computer and a CompactFlash card and build a custom router/firewall.

Welcome to this year's 33rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. A lot of work has been done to help release sarge soon. Several recommendations and removals were requested on the debian-release list. Claus Fischer even requested to document important issues in the release notes. Jeroen van Wolffelaar asked maintainers to answer some questions if they maintain one or more packages with different versions in sarge and sid in order to help the release management.

Day three of aKademy opened with presentations in two tracks, covering the themes of multimedia on the desktop and integration. A cruel starting time of 8.45 meant that the first talks suffered from a rather low attendance, perhaps due to the exploits of certain KDE hackers. But those who managed to crawl out of bed so early were not disappointed.

A U.N.-funded organization has produced a Linux desktop manual for novice PC users as part of an effort to encourage developing countries to use open-source software.

Microsoft on Monday withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce, citing "business reasons."

The Conference of KDE Developers and Contributors finished a few days ago, and we are now happy to announce a collection of reports, videos, slides and notes from presentations, as well as plenty of photo galleries from those attending the KDE World Summit - aKademy. There are full reports on day one (Saturday) and day two (Sunday) on Newsforge. You can also find transcripts and slides from many of the talks on the schedule (thanks go to Jonathan Riddell for the transcripts). The video stream archives can be found here, courtesy of Fluendo. Attendees have also started to add their photo albums to this wiki page. Those attending aKademy are invited to add notes to this wiki page, their photos to the other wiki page, and speakers are asked to send their slides to the press team.

- Novell Business Continuity Clustering 1.0 automates configuration and management of geographically dispersed server clusters, protecting businesses against site downtime and disasters

As the open source industry grows and becomes more widely accepted, the use of Linux as a secure operating system is becoming a prominent choice among corporations, educational institutions and government sectors. With national security concerns at an all time high, the question remains: Is Linux secure enough to successfully operate the government and military's most critical IT applications?

When determining your best back-up routine, consider the amount of data being backed up, the best medium for your situation, how long each part of the network can be done and more.

The open source project to make Linux look just like Windows XP has completed their desktop environment. According to a post on the group's website, XPde's latest software release now has a Start Menu and, according to the team, this revision "completes the desktop paradigm."