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Except for David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, every member of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education found enough to endorse in the draft the panel produced last month to support it over all. All of them, certainly, also found some aspects of the report objectionable, yet swallowed those objections and agreed, at a public meeting August 10, to sign the report.

[How is it that Microsoft gets a seat on an education commision? - Scott]

Linux has a cult-like following among enthusiasts and believers in the open source movement, who brush off the underlying philosophy of locked source code and consider it a hindrance to the progress of software development.

[This is one of the better articles I have seen on the subject. - dcparris]

The storage market has become the latest to face the open-source revolution, with a new product from Cleversafe claiming to offer secure, economical and private storage using a dispersed storage grid technology.

In a paper delivered at an academic forum Thursday, Emmanuel Lallana, a commissioner of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology said efforts to promote free and open source software in education have focused on three aspects: 1) getting more people to use it; 2) developing content and electronic learning applications using the technology; and 3) developing experts who can support its wider use.

Enterprise Linux customers typically pick from just two options. Although HP’s decision to support Debian could widen the playing field, the choice really comes down to Novell and Red Hat. It’s worth comparing the two in terms of product offerings and overall style.

This is a nice start of the week-end, Judge Brooke Wells' Order denying SCO's Motion for In Camera Review of Allegedly Privileged Documents (here's the memo in support [PDF]). This is the final paragraph, and it tells the story -- this judge can't be intimidated:

This howto will show you howto store your users in LDAP and authenticate some of the services against it. I will not show howto install particular packages, as it is distribution/system dependant. I will focus on "pure" configuration of all componenets needed to have LDAP authentication/storage of users.

I’ve been hearing about BitTorrent for at least a year. It’s an exciting technology in principle, because it solves traditional central repository file distribution problems, uses peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing technology, and is written in my favorite programming language, Python.

Patrick Volkerding has announced that "current" branch of Slackware Linux has reached release candidate 4 status: "I wasn't planning a Slackware 11.0 release candidate 4, but here we go."

In the continuation of a long-running arms race, both Apple Computer and Microsoft have seen their music protection technologies come under fire in recent days.

Equinox Desktop Environment (shortly EDE) is small desktop environment, built to be simple and fast. Comparing to other desktop environments, EDE is much faster and smaller in memory space and should be run reasonably fast even on older harware.

After a year from 1.0.4, we are happy to announce a new release. It comes with a lot of changes, following release of efltk to version 2.0.6. Details about both can be found in ede and efltk changelogs.

It is becoming clearer that the costly and unsecure Windows platform is losing attractiveness for both end-users and authorities. This is why an Indian state has chosen Linux for its high-schools rather than Windows.

10 years ago, on October 14th 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced a project to create a complete and consistent GUI for the prospering Linux operating system. The project grew and matured and now it is 2006 and KDE is one of the largest Free Software projects. To celebrate this anniversary the KDE project encourages the community to organise events all over the world, to meet and party and celebrate Free Software.

Last Wednesday was Konqueror Bug Day. The aim was to either confirm or close as many unconfirmed Konqueror bugs as possible, known as bug triage.

ANALYSIS: Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we're now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase.

Every year DesktopLinux.com carries out an online poll on the desktop use of Linux. 14,535 users participated in this year's poll, the representativeness of which is -- as in the case of all online polls of this kind -- somewhat compromised by the fact that all participants took part of their own accord. In addition it is likely that the majority of participants were Linux users from the United States; which suggests that transposing the results to Germany will be rather difficult.

Want to learn the Linux computer operating system? If you're an Amelia County high school student, the opportunity is there.

In the first two parts of this series we took a tour of the Soekris 4521 single-board computer and installed the Pyramid Linux operating system. Now it's time to build a good stout iptables firewall.

When you're used to hacking on old PCs it's easy to fall into bad habits, like stuffing all manner of services on border routers and turning them into "Internet gateway/LAN servers" because you have the capacity, and you don't want to clutter up the place with big old PCs dedicated to specialized jobs. But this isn't really the best way to design your network.

Years after the event, I still remember it. Sixth grade had rolled around and my parents, having come to the conclusion that I need to learn to dance, signed me up for ballroom lessons, along with every other student in the local school system.

OpenSolaris isn't a true open-source project, but rather a "facade," because Sun Microsystems doesn't share control of it with outsiders, according to IBM executives.