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Miguel first became interested in open source as far back as 1991, but his biggest impact came in 1997, when he founded the Gnome project with his friend

warranty disclaimers. In the other camp is the "general public license" (or "GPL") maintained by Free Software Foundation. The GPL

Software vendor BEA Systems is planning to create an open source application framework, called 'Beehive', based on its WebLogic Workshop Java Development tool.

There are a couple of new certifications in town, and they call themselves MySQL Core and Professional. The Core certification was released in March 2003.

Part II breaks down the boot process into nine steps and analyzes the time cost involved in each.

When Miguel de Icaza spoke at the 2000 Ottawa Linux Symposium, he opened his talk with a blunt message:"Let's make Unix not suck."

Open-source products are proving to be cost-effective alternatives to proprietary, packaged software. But is the availability of

BGC was also an early adopter of Linux as its network infrastructure for e-mail, DNS, and file-sharing is hosted on Debian GNU/Linux dating back about six years

Useful information for everyone from novice users to system administrators.

BEA Systems has announced that it will create an open source project called Beehive to serve as a foundation for building Java-based business applications.

If you went back 18 to 24 months ago," said Microsoft's Senior VP, Bob Muglia, in a recent interview published in the UK, "it was unclear what Linux would look

A few new security and management products were announced at the NetWorld+Interop tradeshow last week that might interest Linux users and product developers.

Software Foundation (FSF) said today that The SCO Group subpoenaed the group's records late last year seeking detailed information about the GNU Public License

A new branch has been created for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. The new branch, forked from the existing 1.7 branch, will be used for all future milestone releases of Firefox and Thunderbird until the 1.0 versions. Read the full article for more details from Benjamin Smedberg.

On 20 May 2004, I posted a statement refuting the claim of Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, that Linus Torvalds didn't write Linux. My statement was mentioned on Slashdot, Groklaw, and many other Internet news sites. This attention resulted in over 150,000 requests to our server in less than a day, which is still standing despite yesterday being a national holiday with no one there to stand next to it saying "You can do it. You can do it." Kudos to Sun Microsystems and the folks who built Apache. My statement was mirrored all over the Internet, so the number of true hits to it is probably a substantial multiple of that. There were also quite a few comments at Slashdot, Groklaw, and other sites, many of them about me. I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

This article, excerpted from the recently published book Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration, 2nd Edition, introduces xinitd, init scripts, and the chkconfig utility.