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Opera reports that a version of its web browser will be used in a line of extremely inexpensive Linux-based set-top boxes that will be marketed directly to individuals in rural areas of China. The boxes will enable the Chinese government to deliver remote education programs to citizens who may not otherwise have access to education, Opera says.

Getting expensive high-end enterprise software for nothing, and how to decide whether it's worth it.

After a blogger recently exposed daily communications between Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and Microsoft servers, Redmond's response was somewhat unsettling. Officials admitted that the validation checker tasked with protecting Microsoft's digital rights has potential uses beyond those previously disclosed.

Two disparate charities have successfully implemented open source software, saving money and creating happier users in the process. Jane Dudman looks at how open source can give smaller organisations greater control at minimum expense

Parvus will demonstrate a new Linux-ready in-vehicle computer on June 13, at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Rail Conference in New York City. The DuraCOR 1100 is a rugged, Intel Celeron-based "vehicle logic unit" (VLU) that targets "information-level applications" in road and rail transit vehicles.

Q&A: The maker of code sleuthing technology for open-source applications sees the market growing swiftly as more enterprises adopt open-source technology.

Software companies, big and small, have failed to deliver on the promise to make life easier for users, said the 21-year-old inventor of the Firefox Internet browser during a speech today at the City Club of Cleveland.

Implementing a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that will impact every division of a company is an intriguing proposition. A lot is expected of such a system, and when we were tasked with this undertaking at our company, we did not want to neglect the foundation of it -- the database. As we researched this project, it became evident that we could satisfy all the necessary requirements with a combination of products: IBM DB2, Red Hat Linux, as well as Heartbeat, Mon, and ipfail. In this article, I will describe how we built a "bulletproof penguin" one piece at a time.

KDE made two security announcements today, the KDM Symlink Vulnerability is a potential local exploit on systems using KDM as their login manager. Artswrapper return value checking vulnerability affects Linux 2.6 systems that have artswrapper installed SUID root. A separate update was made for the wv2 library used in KWord to import MS Word files to fix a boundary check error. Your distribution should have updates for these issues.

This tutorial shows how you can run your own name servers for domains that you register with GoDaddy. Of course, this works with every other registrar as well, although the procedure might differ a little bit.

Item: "Having the latest computer technology is great. But what e-government users from the public sector as well as citizens really want is software interoperability. Unfortunately IT managers still only pay lip service to such interoperability, concludes a European project assessing today's open-source movement."

*buntu Dapper not only replaced devfs with udev, they removed the user documentation for managing udev (thanks a lot), with the result that hordes of users found their scanners (and other devices) didn't work after upgrading to Dapper. This Kubuntu forum thread tells how to get your scanner back, and to make it work for non-root users. It's very simple, once you infiltrate the temple and learn the secret incantation.

“If I chose a Windows platform, I would also have to buy different packages and a licence for every single thing. It becomes very expensive.”

He added, “We have been bowled over by how reliable and stable it is. We are now going to roll out more applications based on this Linux framework.”

Part 1 included an overview of BackupPC, and some of the issues of making backups on a mixed LAN. Part 2 covered server hardware, and setting up a BackupPC server. Today we'll configure the BackupPC clients, and use Partimage and SystemRescueCD to create and restore Windows system images.

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 144:
We talk to Max Spevack from the Fedora Project
Our thoughts on Google Earth for Linux
Dan gives us an update on running Linux on his new Macbook
DRM battles and allofmp3.com revisited
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"Open source is more secure. Period," Raimund Genes, chief technical officer for anti-malware at Trend, told ZDNet UK. "More people control the codebase, they can react immediately to vulnerabilties, and open source doesn't have so much of a problem with legacy code because of the number of distributions."

[Just don't get smug and complacent. -- grouch]

The administration of the Berlin Senate (the governement of the German federal state Berlin) has voiced its opposition to a complete migration of the authority's computers to Linux. It thus opposes the Berlin Parliament, which called for a two-phase migration of servers and workstations to Open Sources systems.

A U.S. team and several Iraqi agencies are creating an open source portal, which Iraqi institutions will own, operate and customize. Sun and the Iraqi Virtual Science Library team are equipping the Iraqi partners with hardware, software and IT training so that they can take control of the system.

Selected students will spend the summer with OSDL contributing to projects, increasing quality of enterprise open source solutions

Linspire has been under fire lately when they announced that they were working on Freespire, which came in two versions (a free and a non-free one). In this interview, Kevin was asked not-so-easy questions about some of the most controversial topics. This is a must-read.