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Have you ever needed an automated solution that requires very little administration intervention, works on possibly different flavors of Linux, and doesn't require software with 'phone home' functionality? A solution based on free software which is scriptable and flexible enough to allow updates from a locally mounted source, as opposed to a remote mirror?

Novell Inc. is banking its re-entry into the consciousness of IT shops on Linux. Through its acquisitions of Ximian and SuSE Linux AG last year, Novell is working hard to regain its stature as a major technology player. In this interview, SuSE chief technology officer Juergen Geck touches on Novell's Linux strategy, starting with its recent release of the YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) management tool to open source, his thoughts on back-porting features from the 2.6 kernel and SuSE's product road map for the rest of 2004.

A move is afoot to revive development of an open-source router platform. The Extensible Open Router Platform (XORP) is an open-source software project for creating production-level open-source router code. Like its predecessor the Linux Router Project (which ended in 2002) the goal of XORP is to create open-source routing code that can run on commodity hardware and become “the Linux of routing,” according to the project’s founders.

Thanks mainly to Unix legacy know-how and successful Linux training efforts thus far, the training and certification processes for Linux in the enterprise datacenter are maturing as well as the operating system itself. At the same time, Linux vendors such as Red Hat are finding more training and services-oriented revenue in the open source world.

Szulik compared his company’s decision to provide a desktop version of its Linux product to listening to the siren’s song in Homer’s Odyssey. Obviously he meant that his customer’s have been luring Red Hat to return to the desktop, however he may have evoked the wrong sort of classical image.

Since the announcement of the Fedora project, many developers in the community have wondered just how they can participate in this project and influence its direction. For the most part they are still wondering. For your amusement, we recommend reading the following transcript, unearthed by Konstantin Ryabitsev and posted to fedora-devel, which describes those interactions in detail.

A lot of people have heard of GNU/Linux (more commonly referred to as just "Linux") and are having trouble finding out what the differences are between different versions -- or distributions -- that are available. This article will outline the differences between several popular GNU/Linux distributions and similar operating systems.

Brian Aker, director of architecture for MySQL AB, says one good way to find an open source programming job is to contact him. He's looking. And his criteria are uniquely open source. "I'm not looking for someone who sends a resume to my mailbox and hasn't looked at our product," he says, "or who has a resume that has the all hottest current skills and every popular certification listed on it."

A tutorial for configuring XDMCP on your network so you can use old equipment, cut down on administration duties and cut costs.

Over the past year, the Howard County (Md.) Public Library has migrated more than 200 public PCs from Windows 98 and Windows NT to Linux. These PCs are used both to surf the Internet and to access the library's catalogues. NewsForge recently spoke with Brian Auger, associate director of the library, and the IT team responsible for the migration. We wanted to learn more about why and how it was accomplished, and how pleased they are with the results.

PCTechTalk has an interview with Chris Hofmann, Director of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. Chris answers several questions about the Mozilla project and reveals some interesting examples of feedback that has been received from users.

A whitepaper from IDC describes profound changes in enterprise computing that could bring a proliferation of embedded Linux devices to an IT department near you. The paper also examines Red Hat's evolving desktop and embedded Linux strategy in the context of this sea change.

Open source is not Linux which means users should assess them separately, Microsoft Australia's managing director Steve Vamos said yesterday. Stressing that Linux is "not free", Vamos said open source is a development methodology and should not be confused with the commercial, non-free nature of Linux distributions.

This interview with MontaVista CEO and embedded pioneer Jim Ready explains why Ready is preparing his small, privately held company for the "battle of the century." It reveals Ready as a big thinker willing to extemporaneously discuss today's computing trends within their historical context.

In the Windows world, there are publicly announced vulnerabilities and patches -- sort of like donning a porkpie hat and waiting near the software chicken coop with a shotgun. But most Linux flaws are fixed swiftly and quietly.

When burglars brought down the Internet link to Ziff-Davis' Manhattan offices, open-source software—and Sean Gallagher's personal Web server—kept eWEEK.com's stories flowing.

The shift to 64-bit computing on the desktop is nearly here, or so says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

Welcome to this year's 18th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. The debian-devel list carried many discussions about releasing sarge in light of recent editorial changes to the social contract, leading to more general resolutions and much cross-talk.

Mandrakesoft today announced the availability of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for the AMD64 platform (Athlon64 and Opteron). Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 delivers all the features and robustness of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official to the 64-bit platform from AMD, with an average performance gain of 20% compared to the IA32 version.