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Iowa's Pottawattamie County government runs 17 servers containing relevant data for a suburban community of nearly 90,000 commuters. Just a year ago, those servers were mainly running Microsoft software, but a project to cut IT costs drove Thomas Broniecki, who serves as IT director there, to consider moving the county's databases to Linux.

In this role, Weinberg will work with Lab members, Linux users, press and analysts as an evangelist for Linux and OSDL programs. Previously, Weinberg was a founding team member at MontaVista Software, where he helped establish Linux as a platform for next-generation intelligent embedded device development. Weinberg's career has also included roles at Lynx Real-Time Systems, Acer Computer, and Microtec Research.

Can a company count on Linux to lower the total cost of ownership of an enterprise system? We talked to independent analysts, developers, and IT company executives. We must admit we were not surprised at what we found out.

How one businessperson created a database to track and store currency exchange rates.

...a new telephone system for firms with aging PBXs to connect remote branch offices, call centers, remote agents, mobile employees and remote sales and service operations. Redfone's new Enterprise Communication System (ECS) is highly scaleable, and available to firms ranging in size from two dozen employees to several hundred.

Sendmail to Deliver Message Management Software Worldwide with HP; Sendmail Software to Be Resold by HP Globally; Joint Anti-Spam Solution Rolled out in U.S. and Europe

Back in February of this year, Andrew Morten announced that cryptoloop was being deprecated in favour of dm-crypt. Although the initial announcement caused some consternation, dm-crypt was merged into the stable tree for the 2.6.4 kernel. This article looks at how to set up an encrypted partition using dm-crypt.

Gentoo Technologies, Inc., is no more. It is to be replaced from today by the Gentoo Foundation, an official not-for-profit entity registered successfully in the State of New Mexico.

Novell is an interesting company, and has only become more so since it decided to dive head first into GNU/Linux last year. Nat Friedman, formerly of Novell acquired Ximian and now the veep of Novell's Linux Technologies Group took some time to answer our questions about exactly where the company is heading with GNU/Linux.

[India based] Accel ICIM Systems & Services Ltd today said it was gearing up to capture a major share of business arising from companies converting their software systems to Linux operating systems.

Many tech-savvy users are abandoning Microsoft in favour of more reliable and secure operating systems from the open source community. But the company's dominance is also being challenged by the emergence of new devices with specific performance requirements, Michael Herman reports.

What you do to back up your computers depends on the value of your data and how far you're willing to go. You can hold users responsible for their own backups. Alternatively, you can create and store backups on floppy disks, CDs, tape drives, and so on. You can back up part or all of the data, even in real time.

We're very pleased to announce the public release of Wasabi, a log file-monitoring tool that infrastructure dev Andrea Barisani wrote to replace oak. Wasabi watches a log file for lines matching a user-defined regular expressions and reports on the matches, sending an email as soon as an associated line is found, or reporting periodically.

Sun Microsystems scored a big sales win Monday, landing Canada's elementary and secondary schools as its latest customers for the open source-based StarOffice 7 office productivity suite. The Ontario Ministry of Education acquired StarOffice licenses for all the province's 72 public and Catholic school boards, making it potentially the largest StarOffice 7 delivery in North America. As a result, about 2.5 million students eventually will have access to one of the leading alternatives to Microsoft Office.

There have been many FC2 reviews, littered all over the net. I thought I would do my own, because I have some things I feel Fedora 2 should be praised for, and a few things I think it should reconsider.

Synaptic and APT help Fedora users manage Linux packages.

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered. The improved security feature has been included in 64-bit CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. since last year, but operating system makers haven't yet built support for the technology into their code...

I've been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional seven times. I received the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. I've been publishing Visual FoxPro books since 1998. So it may come rather as a surprise to hear that I've been converting my entire company to Linux over the last couple of years.

Live distributions of Linux let you find out if you are compatible with the open source operating system before you make a permanent commitment.