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Despite having pockets of communities spread across the country, open source software (OSS) has no future in the country's budding software development business, according to a software development expert. "The software development industry in the Philippines will always choose commercial applications over open source applications, unless the open source community comes around and becomes serious in turning open source software into a serious business," said Joey Gurango, CEO of software development firm Webworks OS.

There are multiple vulnerabilities in tcpdump and libpcap related to parsing of ISAKMP packets.

Roll out a desktop Linux pilot project quickly without disturbing the legacy desktop OS.

I've taken some pretty tough tests in my life, and passed every one of them on the first try. And since I'm teaching Linux system administration at my local community college, I thought I would be hot stuff when I signed up to take the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam. I don't think that way anymore.

By selling software through the traditional commercial model, Microsoft has been seen in some circles as the odd man out when it comes to the popular open source movement. But the company argues that it has a place in the open source model and that open source does not necessarily mean less expensive than Windows. At the recent Open Source Business Conference, InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Jason Matusow, manager of Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative program, to discuss Shared Source, Linux, and Windows.

Nigel McFarlane writes in with news about his latest article on using XUL rather than DHTML to create Web page menus: "I've written another article highlighting the features of Mozilla. To the best of my knowledge this is the first 'dirty XUL trick' that might appeal to web developers. It's nice to see that the Mozilla styling and layout systems are robust enough to support this kind of fiddling. It would be wonderful to see a full Web toolkit of XBL objects spring up to replace the junk we do in Dynamic HTML."

Just over a year ago, the Linux on IPod site went live, and judging by the half-a million page views and over two thousand downloads, interest is still strong. According to the site's question and answer page, right now the project is focused on porting the uClinux kernel to the iPod.

Shaun Colley discovered a problem in xine-ui, the xine video player user interface. A script contained in the package to possibly remedy a problem or report a bug does not create temporary files in a secure fashion. This could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking xine.

KDE-PIM may be vulnerable to a remote buffer overflow attack that may allow unauthorized access to an affected system.

What is Enterprise Linux? Who has it? What does it cost? Are there any viable free alternatives? These are all questions that this article will address and try to answer. Enterprise linux is being offered by the three major commercial linux distributions; RedHat [sic], SUSE and Mandrake. Here is what each says the purpose of it's enterprise product is.

The following Interview was conducted by e-mail and IRC over the past few weeks. Questions by Tim Mullins, answers from Zackary Deems and Bernhard Rosenkraenzer who are two of the head developers in the Ark Linux Project.

As part of the March 2004 issue of the "Application of the month" series on KDE.de, Andreas C. Diekmann has interviewed Nicolas Hadacek, author of KSirtet, a Tetris clone for KDE. The Dutch KDE website is offering an English translation of the interview as well as the overview of this issue.

"a cross-realm vulnerability allowing someone with control over a realm to impersonate anyone in the cross-realm trust path."

In March of 2004 we posted 726 stories (security alerts were not counted). Here are the biggest newsmakers of the month, along with the most interesting story posted about them during that time.

A flaw has been found in the temporary file handling algorithms for the sandboxing code used within Portage. Lockfiles created during normal Portage operation of portage could be manipulated by local users resulting in the truncation of hard linked files; causing a Denial of Service attack on the system.

We've all heard the news: JBoss has received $10 million in funding and now it's time to sit back and mull it over. Without a doubt this infusion of capital is a signal of confidence for JBoss Group. But is this investment a good thing for open source? Not an unimportant question for those of us who have decided to use open source in our enterprise applications.

Microsoft yesterday released the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolkit under IBM Corp's Common Public License (CPL) to what is believed the industry's largest open source development community, SourceForge.

Smartsource Corporate Training, a Cape Town-based Linux training specialist with a network of business partners in Johannesburg, has been appointed the first Linux training partner for Novell SA.

NTT Data Corp and NTT Comware Corp plan to buy interests in VA Linux Systems Japan, a Sumitomo Corp unit that specializes in creating Linux operating systems and related software, with a goal of co-developing Linux-based telecommunications systems.

FlashMob I took place on a typically foggy April Saturday at the University of San Francisco's Koret Center gym. Exactly 700 computers of various shapes and sizes -- donated by individuals and several organizations -- were gathered in the auditorium and interconnected via a homegrown local area network to in effect try to become one of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers. Surprisingly, it wasn't the huge tangle of wires many people thought it would be; all the networking hardware was kept well under control by all the event "hub captains."