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Can you make money building Freedom Toasters? Project founder, Jason Hudson, is about to find out. He's starting a small company that will build and manage the open source kiosks, potentially long after the Shuttleworth-funded project wraps up in 2007.

It says a lot for Ruby, the dynamic language thats giving Perl and Python a run for their money, as well as for Rails, the application framework that made Ruby famous, that such a savvy software veteran would choose to bet his next business on these open source technologies.

LXer Feature - 9-June-06

Every time someone boots up Windows, god kills a kitten. Bill Gates is the devil. Steve Ballmer is a sweaty gorilla. Linux is better than Windows, cures bad breath, and improves your love life. Linux advocates are foaming religious zealots who want to control everyone's lives.

Following Andrew Morton [interview]'s overview of what will likely be merged into the 2.6.18 kernel [story], several developers discussed the legality of the ACX1xx wireless driver. Jeff Garzik began the discussion, "I've never had technical objections to merging this, just AFAIK it had a highly questionable origin, namely being reverse-engineered in a non-clean-room environment that might leave Linux legally vulnerable."

Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss could have significant implications for the enterprise software market

Open source executives used a flurry of facts, figures and testimonials at the Red Hat Summit here last week to make what they believe is a sure-fire case against proprietary software and vendor lock-in.

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure mod_deflate on an Apache2 web server. mod_deflate allows Apache2 to compress files and deliver them to clients (e.g. browsers) that can handle compressed content which most modern browsers do. With mod_deflate, you can compress HTML, text or XML files to approx. 20 - 30% of their original sizes, thus saving you server traffic and making your modem users happier.

Digital Life is the sequel to Z4CK, Milne's first novel, in which intrepid hacker Duncan Steele roamed a brave new world, besting techno-proles and fighting to extricate himself from a bogus murder rap, his trusty Sharp Zaurus by his side.

Today, Linux has a sharper, more refined edge than before, and has branched out into private, public, enterprise and governmental sectors. Linux also spans all manner of hardware platforms, and serves an incredibly wide variety of purposes.

Xara Xtreme LX (Xara LX), the port of Xara's flagship graphics program released under the GNU General Public License, has been developing rapidly since the first code was released in March. The patches have been coming so quickly that any review promised to be obsolete before it was published. That is still true, but, with version 0.5 being treated as a milestone by the company, the time for a first look has finally arrived. Those familiar with the Windows version of Xara Xtreme will know what to expect. Those new to the program will find a highly contextual interface and precision tools that are quick to learn and easy to use, and marred only by the absence of a few key features and extras.

Oh didn't we mention that in the licence?

Microsoft has admitted that Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) will phone Redmond every day - something it neglected to tell users before they installed it.

Richard Stallman slammed Sun Microsystems for its half-hearted attempt at open sourcing Java when Sun fell short of the mark after Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz committed the company to freeing the platform. But Stallman may be speaking too soon, according to Schwartz.

Many people in the Linux community know that its an operating system built to handle the most mission-critical of jobs. In fact, Linux is so stable, it can handle the most mission-critical job of all: managing the human heart. Rob Reilly reports.

Open-source OS now accounts for a quarter of Dell's enterprise business and is growing fast, the company says.

In an interview, copyright reform champion Lessig says: “whatever the importance of the freedom of coders, coders will still be just a tiny proportion of the public, but culture is ... much broader."

With the right mix of open-source software on Windows or Linux, Australian open-source business, Cybersource Pty., claims that white-box vendors can drastically increase their profits. (Linux-Watch)

Companies that now sell proprietary software will eventually be forced to give their software away – but the smart ones will stay in business, selling services, support and content.

Proponents of Windows Small Business Server sell it as Microsoft's cheap answer to Linux and other free open source operating systems. The customer gets a Swiss Army knife of Windows software, as long as it's all loaded on a single server. That's where the problem starts. Every loaded program brings its own vulnerabilities which, in the aggregrate, can bring down the whole computer. On the other hand, Linux suffers from fewer critical vulnerabilities, and none of the restrictions.

IBM and St. Jude Medical used embedded Linux to build a device that lets cardiac care clinicians retrieve and analyze data from implanted cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and pacemakers, and make programmatic changes to them. The St. Jude Merlin Patient Care System runs a customized MontaVista Linux

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EnGarde Secure Linux is een Linux-distributie die gericht is op het bedienen van servers voorzien een hoog beveiligingsniveau. Het bevat een aantal standaard applicaties waarmee verschillende server-taken zonder problemen uit te voeren zijn, zoals het serveren van dynamische websites, mail en het uitvoeren van network intrusion detection. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. Versie 3.0.7 is sinds kort beschikbaar en voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:

Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.7 (Version 3.0, Release 7). This release includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements to the Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy, several updated packages, and several new packages available for installation. [LXer appreciates feedback on the inclusion of international news sources. Some 40% of our readers come from outside the US. - dcparris]