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More good news from Australia. The Australian Tax Office has announced that it is adopting an open source software policy. The policy now will be that GNU/Linux should be considered and used where appropriate...

Ulf Härnhammar discovered two format string bugs (CAN-2004-0104) and two buffer overflow bugs (CAN-2004-0105) in metamail, an implementation of MIME. An attacker could create a carefully-crafted mail message which will execute arbitrary code as the victim when it is opened and parsed through metamail.

Lineox, a Finnish Linux company that emerged from the book publishing industry, Monday released Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.001, the first revision of Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 in the company's Always Current series.

IBM on Tuesday is expected to announce an expansion of its sales of Linux on server hardware.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released its Zope-based Workforce Connections software as Open Source.

IBM will install a second Blue Gene/L supercomputer as part of a radio telescope project in the Netherlands, the company announced Monday.

The Web site debuted quietly last week. It enables companies that use Linux to purchase a license that covers SCO's Unix System V, portions of which SCO claims were illegally incorporated into the source code of Linux.

Embedded Linux author and trainer Karim Yaghmour, and his company Opersys, have released an embedded Linux "Quick Reference Guide" (QRG) designed to help designers build embedded systems from open source GNU/Linux sources. The QRG is distributed as a two-page PDF file intended for printing on both sides of a standard-sized sheet of paper, and is meant to remind embedded developers of the syntax for frequently used commands.

These are just the latest in a series of serious or critical security vulnerabilities discovered in Linux over the past few months. The board room at Microsoft is probably getting some amusement, or at least feeling some relief, from the irony that open source is supposed to be more secure and yet these critical flaws continue to be found.

Wind River Systems Inc., once a staunch opponent of open-source software, is expected today to detail plans for weaving Linux into its product lineup. During an earnings call for the last fiscal year, scheduled for Monday, the struggling embedded giant is also expected to unveil a new business model that gives customers the option of eliminating royalties.

Several buffer overflows were found in the fontfile code that handles a user-supplied "fonts.alias" file. The file is processed with root privileges and therefore a successful exploitation of these bugs leads to local root access. There is no known workaround.

During the next two to three years, I quite like the prospects for appreciation in NOVL’s stock price, but I'd be inclined to stay on the sidelines for the next few months before thinking about starting a position. While I expect Red Hat to remain the sector leader, its dominant position will be eroded as strong competitors such as Novell/SuSE enter and consolidate in the space. It's still early days, and Novell’s transition will take time as management reconciles its various challenges and opportunities.

Email technology provider Sendmail has worked with Microsoft to launch a sender authentication plug-in which is hoped will combat email fraud and spam.

Dominant Email Technology Provider Accelerates Deployment of New Anti-Fraud and Anti-Spam Technologies Through Its Open Source and Commercial Products

CEE 3.1 Boasts New Comprehensive DevRocket Development Environment and Several Advanced Technical Features

Wichita Area Technical College will soon begin classes for Red Hat Academy, a hands-on course for teaching Linux skills.

Fry ... plans to launch a Java-based offering tomorrow called Open Commerce Platform that carries no licensing fee for the customer. And Fry is happy to run it on freely available open-source technologies such as the Linux operating system, Tomcat application server and Apache Web server.

There are frequently debates in open source circles about the impact of layering graphical user interfaces across Linux and Open Source applications.

The Democrats, Greens, and increasingly Labor, have had a deepening love affair with Linux and the open source software movement over the past 12 months.

A hole was discovered in the mremap. Through this hole, it is possible for anyone with a local account on the system to gain root privileges. See CAN-2004-0077 for additional details. This is the kernel 2.2.25 counterpart to the security hole fixed in TSLSA-2004-0007.