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Have you noticed the flurry of fluffy coverage in the media about "so-and-so investigates Linux/open source hence Microsoft will suffer hefty losses"? It has reached such a silly stage that soon, if your neighbourhood kebab shop were to adopt Linux, that too could make the front page. What's basically happening is a simple case of media manipulation by customers because in three months, one-third of Windows server software contracts with Microsoft's largest global clients will be up for renewal.

About 1,200 penguinistas converged on the campus of Washington's Bellingham Technical College last weekend for Linuxfest Northwest 2004. The event focused on issues of advocacy, migration, law (SCO and other legal cases), and business use of GNU/Linux. Featured presenters included Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP; Stephen Hemminger of OSDL; Charles Ditzel of Sun; Chuck Gray of IBM; Jackson Harper of the Mono Project; Timothy A. Witteveen from PNW National Laboratory; and Aaron Seigo from the KDE team.

A UK bank is planning to roll out Sun's Java Desktop System but the software giant won't be making much money on the deal Sun Microsystems has admitted that an unnamed UK bank has driven a hard bargain in return for deploying its Java Desktop Systems (JDS) product.

Red Hat announced today that its Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (RHEL 3) is the first operating system to be certified by the Free Standards Group, conforming to the Linux Standard Base (LSB) Internationalized Runtime Environment.

The Linux Professional Institute was created with the support of the Linux Community in 1999, to build a certification for Linux System Admins. LPI continues to ask the community to participate and help out, and once again is asking for support as we create further items and tasks to develop the LPI exams. Please have a look at the attached details which will help you to help us. We thank you in advance for your assistance.

Linux and Open-Source Center Editor Steven Vaughan-Nichols thinks that BayStar pulling its funding from SCO may be the end not just to SCO's anti-Linux litigation but to the company.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today announced that Ten Art-ni, a leading Japanese open source technology integrator, has joined OSDL and will participate in OSDL's Data Center Linux and Carrier Grade Linux working groups to advance Linux in Japan.

A court in Munich has issued a preliminary injunction against a hardware manufacturer, who is selling a wireless router, for violating the terms of the GNU General Public License. The injunction was sought by the netfilter/iptables project because the company, Sitecom, which is using its software did not meet the terms of the GPL: no source code was provided to those who bought the router and the manufacturer did not include the GPL license terms with its products.

Doc discusses what the recent Sun/Microsoft settlement really means in a rapidly evolving market.

Linux folks tend to have a better eye on security. I realize that's an overwhelmingly general and wide-sweeping statement, but that's my opinion. I've been working with Linux for a very long time, and most of the other users in the community tend to be highly technical and thus aware of many of the security concerns facing the networked world today.

Longhorn's arrival will indeed be monumental, as their research teams are finally producing something worthwhile. The OSS world has much to do in preparation for this release; this version of Microsoft's OS will not simply offer trivial UI "enhancements" that appeal to users, as it has done in the past - they are really targeting both users and developers very forcefully this time around.

LynuxWorks has announced that Empress Embedded Database is now available for its BlueCat embedded Linux operating system. Empress V8.62 is a multi-platform, highly scalable real-time database, according to LynuxWorks, that targets image and voice management, networking, telecom, military, defense, process control, automotive, and data acquisition.

Linux folks tend to have a better eye on security. I realize that's an overwhelmingly general and wide-sweeping statement, but that's my opinion. I've been working with Linux for a very long time, and most of the other users in the community tend to be highly technical and thus aware of many of the security concerns facing the networked world today.

Starting this afternoon, security alerts will no longer appear on the homepage of the website, but they will still be archived, available via email alerts, as well as in a box on the right-hand menubar.