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From September 14-16, the fourth international Wizards of OS (WOS 4) Conference in Berlin will be dealing with free software, free content, and free infrastructures under the slogan Information Freedom Rules. At the Columbiahalle in Berlin, imported trends and innovative products from these areas will be presented and discussed. Hundreds of researchers, technicians, artists, and activists are expected to attend, not to mention more than 1,000 visitors. If you are interested in attending, you can register at the web site http://www.wizards-of-os.org. A pass for all three days of the conference costs 60 euros (reduced price: 30 euros), while one day of admission costs 25 euros (reduced price: 12 euros).

For a managed service provider on a fixed-fee model, downtime and service calls mean less margin.

Last week, members of the KDE project attended the Four Core meeting, one of several events designed to accelerate the development of KDE's next major release. Attendees worked on readying the fundamental kdelibs and kdebase packages for version 4 so that work on overlying applications may continue.

SageTV, a Oakbrook Terrace , IL-based personal entertainment software company will announce SageTV Media Center for Linux V5 with place shifting features and Media Extender support later this week, sources say.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. and MUNICH, Germany, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- DataCore Software today announced that because of the notable success its customer Munich-Schwabing Hospital has achieved through its technology, the five hospitals in the Bavarian capital of Munich are currently centralizing their information technology in order to save costs and provide a more efficient data management system. With its positive experience in the field of virtualization tools -- in particular, VMware for servers and DataCore Software's SANsymphony(TM) for storage -- the Schwabing Hospital is now expanding its operations multi-site and helping the other hospitals within its network. The Schwabing Hospital is now responsible for storage and server architecture for all five hospitals due to the successes already achieved in improving productivity and resource utilization through its deployment of a comprehensive virtual infrastructure.

DejaVu font development gives Linux another toehold for its push into proprietary territory.

OpenMFG released the latest update to its namesake Enterprise Resource Planning application, announced an aggressive new pricing plan, and also contributed two new modules for an open source content management system. The company's flagship product is an advanced ERP software solution built with open source components, such as the Linux operating system, the PostgreSQL database, and the OpenRPT report writer.

The class, scheduled for October 23-27, is five days of intensive instruction on PostgreSQL 8.1 as a database solution for professional applications. Instructor Chris Campbell guides students through the ins and outs of PostgreSQL wherein, by the end of the week, attendees will emerge with advanced skills in PostgreSQL administration.

Many people do not get the point behind themm2mm (Medical Manager to MirrorMed conversion application)project. To clear it up, I have written a history ofMedical Manager. Once you take a read I think you will agree thatMedical Manager really measures up toother corporate scandals.Fred Trotter

The GnuCash development team released the milestone 2.0.0 version of the open-source accounting program on July 9, featuring several major advances over the last version (1.9.8, released on June 18). GnuCash is released under the GPL and available for Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and Mac OSX.

Meet Elisa, software from a project aimed at developing "an open source media center solution for GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems."

A new database will tackle one of the persistent problems facing Linux deployments - figuring out what hardware is and isn't compatible.

Have you ever seen the Mac OS X desktop and wished all that eye candy were available for Linux? Now you can jazz up your Linux desktop with desklets -- nifty little windows that float on your desktop and display information such as weather updates, system monitors, and calenders. Once you have aDesklets installed, you can download and install an assortment of desklets.

In order to write DVD/DVD-RW from shell prompt you need to install a package called dvd+rw-tools.

DVD is another good option for backup, archiving, data exchange etc. You can install dvd+rw-tools with following commands. Also note that this package works under *BSD, HP-UX, Solaris and other UNIX like operating systems.

NGOs APC and Catia have joined forces with the Ethiopian Free and Open Source Network to host a series of workshops over the next 10 days to promote the use of of free and open source software in that country. The series of three workshops will range from FOSS policy discussions to advanced systems administrator training.

From today, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates or provide support for Windows 98 and Windows ME, which could lead users to trying alternative operating systems such as Linux.

The book DNS in Action is a guide to DNS implementation, os specific configuration, and administration. This is a practical book for new sys admin and network architects about how to run and configure DNS. Libor Dostalek and Alana Kabelova has done a good work to put together complicated topic such as DNS and its implementation. The entire book is divided into ten chapters.

Chapter 1: Domain Name System
We humans take advantage of DNS whenever possible by using terms URLs and e-mail addresses. The first chapter explains the basis of DNS and its principles.

I've been using the Firefox Web Developer toolbar for about a month now and quite simply....it rocks! It's got a tonne of features but here are some of my favourite:

The company's new product, available as part of Lotus Notes Version 7, uses the Eclipse development environment and will support both RHEL 4 and Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.

This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of PostgreSQL's posting as a public, open source project. To celebrate, the PostgreSQL project held a two-day conference at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.