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Too often, businesses and enterprises focus on the dangers that get the most press and forget that there are plenty of other ways they can be hurt. This article outlines some of the lesser-known attacks that a business can face and points out ways to defend against them.

gOS, the Linux OS known for its debut in the $199 Wal-Mart gPC and NetBooks, today announced the details of the newest version of its Linux operating system for consumers, called gOS 3 Gadgets. gOS is demonstrating a beta version of the OS on a variety of NetBooks and NetTops at LinuxWorld and online at http://www.thinkgos.com.

There is one thing that many people have yet failed to realize, and that is that Linux is a platform, not an OS. Now as bizarre as that may sound, if you truly think about it, you'll realize that I'm right. It's true that Linux does indeed describe an operating system, but that's only a minor part of the overall experience. I've had to learn this the hard way over the past couple of months as I've been doing research on how to better market Linux. It's come to me that marketing Linux as just an OS is like selling a rock to someone in need of a boat. In other words, it's effectively useless to someone, unless it can be used as a platform onto which important applications they need can be run.

You can capture video of all of the amazing things happening on your desktop with one of Linux's many screencasting applications. These programs are perfect for creating demonstrations for blogs and tutorials, and for illustrating projects with more than just still images. Many different programs are available, and they all provide a different set of features, options, and output formats. When choosing, consider the degree of control you want to have over your video resolution and whether the video is intended to work on non-Linux operating systems.

With virtualisation becoming a mainstream technology, it's becoming reasonable that Linux distros like Ubuntu will not always require a dedicated computer but instead be contained within a virtualised environment, whether on a Windows desktop or as part of a consolidated server farm. It's not always plain sailing though — here are some problems you might encounter as well as their solutions.

Optimists say the best things in life are free; realists say yes, but anything that's free costs way too much. Nowhere is that more applicable than in open source (define) software. Enterprises using open source are being sued for not complying with the multitude of licenses the software comes with. The problem is that open source software developers call in code from other open source applications.

The RR3510 features an 800MHz Intel IOP341 RAID I/O Processor, supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD. With HighPoint's driver embedded in kernel 2.6.25 and newer, how well will the RAID controller perform?

There's something about the concept of competition that gets big thinkers to put their ideas out there in the open -- regardless of how audacious those ideas are. It worked with Charles Lindbergh decades ago, and it's still working today. Organizations like the X Prize Foundation and Innocentive are offering large prizes to anyone who can be the first to accomplish extreme goals.

This guide shows how you can install the CentOS Directory Server on CentOS 5.2. It is hardened by real-world use, is full-featured, supports multi-master replication, and already handles many of the largest LDAP deployments in the world. The CentOS Directory Server (based on Fedora Directory Server) can be downloaded for free and set up in less than half an hour.

IBM Tuesday marked its 10 years of participation in Linux and open source by introducing new software, upgrades to existing platforms and an open source code contribution focused on supercomputing. The company said its HPC Open Source Software Stack, which includes IBM’s Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit, was its first ever contribution of open source code for supercomputing.

As Linux-based operating systems continue to proliferate in the mobile communications marketplace, are there too many choices of open-source platforms? The answer is no, according to the participants in a panel discussion here today at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Having a choice in mobile operating systems can encourage innovation. "It is not the Wild West," said Bill Weinberg, an industry analyst who moderated the "Unifying Mobile Linux Platforms" panel. "We are not dealing with wholesale fragmentation. The marketplace is jelling."

IBM has launched its latest attack on Microsoft in the enterprise, forming an alliance with three top Linux distributors to promote Microsoft-free PCs around the world. The deal with Canonical (the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu), Novell and Red Hat is designed to promote PCs running Linux alongside IBM business software, such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime. IBM made the announcement at the Linux World Conference & Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday.

Red Hat Inc. and project contributors have released alpha code for Fedora 10, the next version of the community-sponsored, free and open-source Linux distribution. Fedora 10 will include enhancements to the audio, security and wireless-connection features of the operating system. Red Hat explained new features of the Fedora 10 alpha release in a blog entry Tuesday. The test release can also be downloaded at the Fedora site. .

Beagle and Tracker are projects that allow you to index your files so you can quickly search filesystems. Both projects started out with the intention of being used with the GNOME desktop, but have recently made a push to be desktop-independent and work with KDE and other desktop environments. Over two days, we'll compare their usability and performance. Both projects are not only standalone tools, but often incorporated in other utilities. If you are interested in which applications use them, you can read the lists for Beagle and Tracker. Depending on how your distribution packages Beagle support, you might find that an extension for Firefox is available so that Beagle can index every Web page you view.

LXer Feature: 06-Aug-2008

More news, notes and a well deserved rant from LinuxWorld 08', the .org Pavillion booths, installfest and proof of my actual physical presence at the show. :-)

What is really satisfying is getting sufficiently involved in a project to be able to have a direct influence on it, as I am with"Joomla!". It's great to be able to identify a minor irritation, to fix it, and to get it to a production release. This has been my experience twice in recent weeks. I've implemented small changes to the system that make it just a little easier to use. Not only will I enjoy the product more as a result, I'll have the satisfaction of knowing that thousands of systems administrators out there might think just for a moment,"oh, they fixed that - great!"

Welcome to the The Digital Tipping Point (DTP) collection. The DTP crew describes their project as a Point-of-View (POV) documentary film about the rapidly growing global shift to open source software, and the effects that massive wave of technological change will have on literacy, art, and culture around the world.

Welcome to this year's 8th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Some of the topics covered in this issue include: Lenny frozen, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated to include support for newer hardware, Schedule for 8th annual Debian Conference announced, Debian Days around the world and much more.

In this video interview, Aaron Fulkerson talks about MindTouch, the company he founded, and its DekiWiki product, which he helped create. In the first half of the conversation, Aaron says Deki is downloaded by about 3,000 people every day, that the open source project has "thousands" of developers, and that his company is profitable after only two years in business. In the second half, Fulkerson talks about the need for a strong personality at the head of an open source project, and has other advice for both charitable and commercial open source project leaders. If you either lead or hope to lead an open source project, or you plan to build a company based on open source software, this video is full of valuable advice for you.

The 7th Annual So Cal Linux Expo will be February 20-22, 2009. And for 2009, the Expo will return to the Westin LAX Hotel, site of the 6th Expo.