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Etherboot is an open source project that gets little public notice, but is essential to almost any other open source project that relies on thin clients or network booting. Here's a lightly edited log of an IRC conversation with Etherboot project leader Marty Connor and primary Etherboot developer Michael Brown.

The South African Cabinet today announced that it had approved a free and open source strategy and that government would migrate its current software to free and open source software.

Security service provider iDefense has reported that a design flaw in user authentication on the web interface of Trend Micro's ServerProtect for Linux allows attackers to switch off the virus scanner on the server or change its settings. The integrated server listens in on TCP port 14942 by default and is protected by a user-configured password.

Bucharest, February 21, 2007 – AXIGEN, the professional mail server vendor, announced today the successful conclusion of a new business partnership in Canada, with Calgary-based Getica e-Solutions.

Our first entry is written by no other than our Tanker Bob. While everyone is on the hot trail of Windows Vista launch, Tanker Bob took another path: moving from Windows to Linux. Follow the link below to Tanker Bob's The Vista Out My Windows.

This weekend, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting will be held at the Université Libre in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM, being one of the biggest European Free Software events usually attracts several thousand people each year. The schedule for the KDE devroom is now published. Highlights this year include talks about the semantic desktop, a workshop on educational software and naturally an overview of the status of KDE 4. For the first time we are running a series of cross desktop talks together with Gnome where you can hear how desktop search engine Strigi works. KDE and friends also make appearances in the Lightening Talks track with topics including CMake, OpenWengo and Amarok. If you are planning to visit FOSDEM, add your name to the FOSDEM 2007 Wiki Page.

Version 1.0 of NTFS-3g, a free NTFS driver for Linux, has been released. Project manager Szabolcs Szakacsits has declared the driver ready for productive use after the release candidate published two weeks ago was not changed. Szakacsits is also the author of the ntfsresize tool used in a number of partitioning tools and Linux installation routines.

The objective of this tutorial is to show new users how to use and implement many of the shell's methods for providing automation at various levels.

When Yahoo! released its latest Web-based application, Pipes, earlier this month it was deemed everything from "innovative" to a "milestone in the history of the Internet." According to Pasha Sadri, Technical Yahoo!, Pipes Development, overall feedback on the new tool has been positive, but he says he's particularly interested in what the programming community has to say about it.

Fast and Secure FTP Server with Vsftpd in Debian

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Frances E Allen as the recipient of the 2006 A M Turing Award.

Linux distributor TerraSoft is accepting pre-orders for Sony Playstation3 gaming devices pre-installed with Linux, alongside the PS3's native gaming OS. Additionally, TerraSoft, IBM, RapidMind, and Vivendi game publisher High Moon Studios are offering seminars to help game developers exploit the PS3's Cell architecture.

In celebration of International Mother Tongue Language Day on February 21, the Department of Communications and the CSIR announced that they would fund Translate.org.za to update and maintain South African language translations of OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird for three years.

If you were asked to name a few operating systems, the first ones that would fly forth from your lips would probably be Windows, OS X, and possibly even Linux, but unless you’re trying to impress someone with your knowledge of all things related to operating systems, that’s likely about as far as you would go.

In this fourth episode of a series that pits Microsoft's new Vista OS against SimplyMEPIS Linux, DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols compares the operating systems' bundled games, browsers, and instant communications applications.

Install Songbird Music Player in Ubuntu

With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the first of a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Fedora Core 6 in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

The first release candidate of Damn Small Linux 3.3 is now ready for testing: "Added mouse configuration persistence via .mouse_config; Improved rdesktop - added color depth; ALSA sound autoconfiguration improvement via conflicting audio module; Automated start of rcfirewall upon boot when rcfirewall.unc is in mydsl search path at boot... - DistroWatch. Screenshots of Damn Small Linux 3.3 RC1 are available at LinuxQuestions.org.

OpenMedSpelis a open source medical spelling word list that is released under a GPL license. OpenMedSpel was derived from the word lists complied for MedSpel, a shareware medical spelling tool for Microsoft Word. OpenMedSpel is currently available in USA English. Other languages and localizations may be released in the future. OpenMedSpel has been adapted to work on the Mozilla Tunderbird email client and the OpenOffice.org office suite. OpenMedSpel can be adapted for many other programs as well. OpenMedSpel can be downloaded from http://www.e-medtools.com/openmedspel.html

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