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Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has joined the Open Source Development Labs, becoming the first member of an affiliate program that lets colleges and universities join the multicompany consortium, OSDL said Tuesday. The consortium, which employs Linux founder Linus Torvalds, is attempting to become the "center of gravity," a focal point for development of the open-source operating system.

That's the title of a presentation given by Forrester Research analysts John Rymer and Noel Yuhanna at GigaWorld 2004. This session was attended by fewer than 30 of the approximately 800 GigaWorld attendees, but raised some interesting points, especially about how to compare competing commercial and open source offerings.

Linux aficionados looking to convert their past-time passion into full-time employment may have a new opportunity to do so, following Red Hat’s decision to expand its Australian-based technical support team.

Black Duck Software, an information services company offering IP risk management and mitigation solutions, on Monday announced the immediate commercial availability of its first comprehensive source-code services program, protexIP for software IP management.

Welcome to this year's 20th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. In an interview Miguel de Icaza said that Debian's community commitment is fantastic, but it is a very hard platform to support for an independent software vendor. Philip Charles also announced new K6 mini iso images.

Opening May 18 on 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86_64 computers worldwide.

Andrea Arcangeli is well known for having completely rewritten and stabilized the virtual memory subsystem in the 2.4 Linux kernel. Many were surprised when Linus Torvalds merged Andrea's VM into 2.4.10, but the new memory subsystem has long since proved itself. Andrea is a 27 year old Linux kernel hacker living in Italy and working for SUSE.

I firmly believe that you should spend as much of the time you dedicate to free/open software and actually spend the time doing real, tangible, measurable and pragmatic things. If you are advocating Linux, instead of writing rules and regulations on how your advocacy project should manage its resources and how its official branding should be created, just get out there and call a person/charity/school/business and get on with it. The red tape will be needed at some point, but not until a stage when you are becoming a big noise in the advocacy world and when you are working on lots of different projects with different members.

"Fedora Core 2 looks to be one of the best released Linux distributions to come out of Red Hat," Keating told internetnews.com. "The operating system just seems very, very solid, very polished, technically advanced and I can't wait to install it on every system I can."

My Windows Internet gateway was running slower than a snail going uphill, even on a pretty speedy machine (a 1.3GHz Athlon), but when it started crashing regularly, I knew I had to do something. I downloaded and burnt Mandrake 10.0 Community, opened up a very old computer (with a CPU clock in the low three figures), and took care of the problem once and for all.