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Linux may be heading toward World Domination, but there still are plenty of incumbent legacies (Exchange) that haven't been dominated. There's only one way to deal with them.

An analysis of hacker attacks on online servers in January by UK-based security consultancy mi2g found that Linux servers were the most frequently hit, accounting for 13,654 successful attacks, or 80 percent of the survey total. Windows came in a distant second with 2,005 attacks.

The U.S federal government is looking at open source software in response to the E-Government Act of 2002. This year's Open Source in Government Conference March 15-17 in Washington, D.C., aims to promote the use of Internet and emerging technologies within government agencies as an efficient way to provide citizen-centric government information and services.

Simon Paquet wrote in to tell us that version 0.1 of Minimo, a Mozilla browser for small devices, has been released. As well as creating a slimmed-down version of Mozilla for PDAs and the like, the Minimo project also aims to allow developers to embed Mozilla in any system with limited resources.

CAN-2004-0083: Buffer overflow in ReadFontAlias from dirfile.c of XFree86 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 allows local users and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a font alias file (font.alias) with a long token, a different vulnerability than CAN-2004-0084.

CAN-2004-0084: Buffer overflow in the ReadFontAlias function in XFree86 4.1.0 to 4.3.0, when using the CopyISOLatin1Lowered function, allows local or remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a malformed entry in the font alias (font.alias) file, a different vulnerability than CAN-2004-0083.

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap(2) system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges.

The GPL requires enterprises distributing software under its jurisdiction (such as the Linux kernel), let users know they're entitled to see the changes made to the source code.

Three separate security flaws could be used by an ordinary user to gain total control of a Linux server or workstation, security researchers have warned.

Acting on behalf of SCO Group Inc, Novell Inc has absolved IBM/Sequent of any restrictions on its use of Sequent code in developing Linux or its Unix.

Sun Microsystems Inc has signed up its third open source Java licensee and used the announcement to answer criticism about its continued control over Java.

The Dillo project to build a small, fast, lightweight, standards-compliant embeddable Web browser has released a new version with "the largest set of improvements, ever," according to project founder Jorge Arellano Cid. Dillo 0.8 includes a better, daemon-based plug-in architecture and several new plugins, among other new features.

Cluster Will Be Largest System to Utilize Intel Xeon with 64-bit Extension

The controversy surrounding The SCO Group’s Intellectual Property Licence continues to heat up, with open source industry cluster, Open Source Group Victoria (OSV), making a second complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

If your company is in North America, we want to know how SUSE LINUX makes your operations successful, and we'll give you an [sic] dual AMD Opteron-64 PC if you have a great story.

Despite having missed the declared February 18 deadline, SCO says it may sue an end user in the near future...

As a result of some good feedback I have received recently, I have modified the code for the login system of this site to use an md5 hashed password (instead of plain-text), for security sake. If you were logged in before, you are now logged out and you'll need to login new again. Thanks.

An IBM technical manager based in Sweden apparently spoke out of turn recently when he told several publications that Big Blue was working with Microsoft on porting Office to Linux.

Representatives of Microsoft and IBM have denied there was any validity to the rumors.

Linux vendor Lindows.com said Thursday that it has released a version of its LindowsOS that supports laptops based on Intel's Centrino technology.

More details have emerged on the Motorola A-768, a Linux-powered smartphone targeting enterprise customers now shipping in China. The A-768 is essentially a revision of Motorola's first Linux-based smartphone...

Sun Microsystems might have responded to my open letter of 12 Feb (Let Java Go) by at least sketching a rational business case for Sun's rather inconsistent stance towards the open-source community; that might have led to an interesting discussion. Instead, Sun seems to have elected to try to shoot the messenger. This is unfortunate and not what I expected. Nor is it likely to win Sun friends or influence people — after all, I was only writing what many people in the open-source community (including many of Sun's own employees) are thinking.