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If the source code leak exposes new security weaknesses, it could again test the relations between Microsoft and the security research community. In recent years Microsoft has gained improved cooperation in keeping security holes under wraps until a patch is available. If security professionals believe Microsoft is unwilling or unable to respond promptly to reported vulnerabilities, they're more likely to publish information about exploits; a scenario played out in December when an spoofing bug in Internet Explorer was published. It took Microsoft six weeks to publish a fix, leaving IE users more susceptible to bank card Phishing scams in the interim.

"We will launch desk top products based on open source technology by the end of 2004," Red Hat India's Director Javed Tapia said at the recently concluded three-day LinuxAsia conference.

Get used to hearing more about "autonomic computing" -- computers that can readjust and actually repair themselves in real time, without human intervention, to keep systems working properly. Why? Because IBM officially took autonomic computing mainstream today by releasing the first autonomic computing SDK.

In this article, we will describe how Web services can be implemented in PHP.

The French government will install open source software on the desktop as part of Project ADELE, a plan to computerize much of the country's administration by 2007, a government official says.

I hate to admit it, but my memory is not as good as it once was. When I can't remember something on my Linux box, I often open a console window to get to the CLI for assistance. Once at the command line, I take advantage of these two handy little CLI tools: whatis and apropos. Maybe you'll find them useful too.

Some tips for figuring out what all the startup messages flying by your screen actually mean.

Novell Inc today announced to offer a range of Linux applications from SUSE LINUX to enterprise customers in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Meanwhile, the company has also launched its Certified Linux Engineer (CLE) program, to provide customers and partners with the technical expertise needed for the Linux environment.

Linux received a vote of support as a platform for corporate business applications this week as Oracle Corp. announced that seven of its new customers in India have chosen to run the company's technology and applications software on the open-source operating system, and that it has emerged as the second most popular operating system among the Oracle developers in the country.

As part of its initial Asian push, Novell will now offer SuSe Linux's products and training courses to three markets in Asia-Pacific.

There were 25 security alerts issued last week.

The http://www.sco.com hostname remains out of the DNS, three days after the denial of service attack connected to the MyDoom virus was scheduled to finish.

With the hype growing to a feverish pitch about the public announcement of Xen, I thought I would share some insight into the knowledge I've had of the language for almost a year and a half. I'm still under orders not to post the video demonstration I have back to my blog (not because the subject matter is Xen, but because apparently the demonstration is internal to Microsoft... I still don't understand this (expecially now that the cat is out of the bag), but it certainly doesn't stop me from sharing some of the information contained in it. This will be an ongoing post as the demonstration is over an hour long, with lots of code samples to boot.

SCO's got a new SEC filing, an S-3 dated February 11. There are some interesting elements. What leaps off the page, to me, is that they seem to be gearing up to sue end users soon, and they are expecting serious backlash from their DMCA strategy. The feeling I get is they are suiting up for battle, and soon. McBride said in the Harvard appearance they'd file against some users around February 18, and after reading the S-3 financials, I now believe they actually will.

Lindows.com and its users are safe from the legal tentacles of the SCO Group, at least according to Lindows.com. The company, maker of a Linux-based operating system, has announced that a pre-existing agreement with SCO Group will keep it out of the fight between SCO and Linux vendors.

Nathan Hand - a Linux developer and enthusiast who represents what he himself admits is the "vanishingly small percentage of the Linux community" still believing The SCO Group's CEO to be "a reasonable man" - proposes what he calls a truce between SCO and the Linux community. Terms include: "You must stop distributing Linux, Samba and GCC unless you are willing to agree to the terms of our General Public License (GPL)."

The Press of Atlantic City offers a positive review of the PHLAK Linux distribution.

Opera and Mozilla are strong contenders for users looking for alternative browsers. Both of them have a fair deal of fan following and both can give IE a run for its money. Mozilla Firefox is the latest standalone browser to take on Opera as a worthy alternative to IE.

One of the most striking aspects of Monday's Mozilla Firefox 0.8 release was the new logo. This graphic is the work of the Mozilla Visual Identity Team, part of the Mozilla Marketing Project.

Has Linux finally matured into a viable desktop alternative to the Windows monolith? And will increasing adoption of this open source OS have a snowball effect in more and more organizations?