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The two programs are called the Certified Linux Engineer (CLE) program, and the SuSE certified Linux professional certification.

The Opteron systems initially will come with 32-bit versions of Windows or Linux. Within 60 to 90 days, 64-bit versions of Linux will arrive on the servers, and by the end of the year, Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows, HP said.

Access is shipping NetFront Mobile Client Suite, a multimedia-enabled application stack for handset manufacturers that runs on Linux and other embedded operating systems. The suite features a Web browser, multimedia messaging client, personal information manager (PIM), SyncML client, SMIL player, and Java support.

Information technology industry watcher MAIT has predicted that within five years, nearly 50 per cent of the software infrastructure could be taken up by open source software.

The company is following the RIAA's lead and taking aim at users. Will it work?

This whitepaper is the third in a series from TimeSys’s 2.6 Linux Resource Center on using the new Linux 2.6 kernel. Authored by TimeSys Senior Product Manager William von Hagen, the whitepapers in this series place special emphasis on the primary issues in migrating existing drivers, applications, and embedded Linux deployments to a Linux distribution based on the 2.6 kernel.

Welcome to this year's eighth issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community.

In North America, "Red Hat" has long been synonymous with "Linux." In the past few years, the company has shifted its emphasis to its "Enterprise Linux" line, which includes a workstation edition, a small-to-midlevel server offering, and a high-end edition able to run on anything from high-end x86 gear to mainframes.

The five-year award will allow Stewart to examine factors that influence successful uses and applications of open oource ooftware (OSS). The most commonly known OSS is Linux, an operating system considered a competitor to Microsoft's Windows.

The gradual ascent of open source technology in India formed the central focus of the one-day conference, "Open Source Software: A New Direction for India?' organized by the Manufacturers Association for Information Technology (MAIT), today, in Mumbai.

Due to requests from MandrakeClub members, MandrakeSoft is pleased to announce that ISO images of Mandrake Linux 9.2 for the AMD64 platform are now available as BitTorrent downloads to Silver level (and above) Club members.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) are at loggerheads over whether the ASF Apache web server software licence is compatible with the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).

BakBone will participate in OSDL's Data Center Linux Working Group and bring enterprise Linux storage expertise to Lab initiatives

"Major hardware manufacturer Albatron is now shipping select micro-ATX motherboards bundled with LindowsOS 4.5 in an unprecedented move to deliver an easy way for consumers to realize the cost-savings that desktop Linux offers."

The Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project is focused on code-size and runtime footprint reduction, and porting to small consumer devices.

Mozilla has released the first "alpha" release of version 1.7.

Both the Hyperion Performance Suite and Essbase 7 now run on Linux.

Paul Staretz discovered a flaw in return value checking in the mremap() function in the Linux kernel, versions 2.4.24 and previous that could allow a local user to obtain root privileges.

This week's Gentoo newsletter is available.

Lycoris Desktop/LX Update 3, released last September, is a Linux distro aimed primarily at home user desktops. Lycoris has been widely heralded for its user-friendliness. If newbies can handle some manual configuration, they may be happy with Lycoris, but it won't satisfy more experienced users.