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"SCO has sent letters to members of the US Congress denouncing Free Software as a threat to the US economy, security and the country's international standing in technology."

Asked about quality control problems that have plagued recent Mandrake releases, Bancilhon said, "I think we have improved a lot from 9.1 to 9.2.".

When the pair gained EAL2+ last August it was the first security certification for Linux. But it was confined to the IBM eSeries xServer platform.

Red Hat has announced a security vulnerability in its recently-released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 product. The exploit allows any

With that in mind, The JBoss Group LLC, Atlanta, and MySQL Inc., Seattle, have formed a strategic alliance to create a service solution linking their

Novell has insisted it will not "mess up" its move into open source, and will let its acquisitions Ximian and SuSe Linux lead the way.

Patrik Hornik discovered a vulnerability in Slocate versions up to and including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer. A local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain "slocate" group privileges and then read the entire slocate database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0848 to this issue.

Nukes on JBoss is a Java-based version of the 'Nuke' family of open-source content management systems originally written in PHP.

Sun has offered IBM the benefit of its "experience" if Big Blue decides it wants to implement a wholesale move to the Linux desktop.

"In a press conference held today at LinuxWorld 2004 in New York, members of the old X consortium, some members of the disbanded Xfree86 core developer group, and Havoc Pennington of freedesktop.org announced that X.org and xFree86 have essentially merged, and that the reformed group is working together to bring 'not just more eye candy but new functionality' to the X Window System for Linux and Unix."

The increasingly acrimonious battle for ownership of Linux intensified yesterday when SCO Group attacked Novell with a 'slander of title' lawsuit.

From February 11-13, the LINUX Asia 2004 event hopes to demonstrate "the power and benefits of [GNU]Linux and FLOSS to decision makers".

For example, we think Mozilla is a much superior product to IE. We'd rather invest in making Mozilla better than getting IE to run on Linux.

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official part of the distribution. Perens feels the biggest challenge to open source going forward is software patents. In the US, 50

NEW YORK--Red Hat, the leading seller of the Linux operating system, plans an expansion into China, potentially including a partnership with China's Red Flag

Armonk, New York-based IBM, which is planning to invest $50 million in Novell to bolster the use of Linux, said the certification would help the SuSE version

on a project that might be of interest to other Advogato users: CIA, a system for tracking commit messages (and eventually other things) from any open source true, robust and secure enough. Linux desktops are about to explode.".

I did not attend the LDAP talk as promised. But I am heading from here (the media centre) over to the PostgreSQL BOF as soon as I leave.

NEW YORK--Intel likely will take a two-phase approach to providing software that Linux needs to take advantage of the processor maker's Centrino chips, an