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Two weeks ago, you read about several apps which keep KDE 3.5 alive. Today's issue of the mini-series provides even more reasons to love KDE. Covered applications include Krita, the image and painting application, Guidance, a configuration tool, frontends to Beagle and finally Scribus, the Qt-based DTP application.

A graduate student in Colombia has developed a small ARM9 SBC (single-board computer) that runs Debian Linux. Carlos Camargo says he built his ECB_AT91 board for a doctoral research project in swarm robotics. He claims his design to be the first Linux-enabled SBC developed in Colombia.

SAN DIEGO -- The Desktop Linux Summit (DLS) 2006 kicked off yesterday in the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego. The summit, now in its fourth year, was created by Linspire, but it has outgrown its uni-distro roots, with sponsors and speakers coming from competing Linux vendors such as Mandriva, Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. An opening day crowd of more than 600 attendees heard a range of speakers reflecting that diversity.

In the same way that Linux is battling against a much larger competitor in the software industry, so AMD is confronted by a quasi-monopoly rival in micro-processors. This is a comparison that appeals to AMD which claims to deliver a similar value proposition to that offered by Linux.

[Interview with AMD CEO Dirk Meyer - dcparris]

A Javascript handling issue in the latest version of the Firefox browser can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and crash the browser.

Award-Winning Xandros Server Delivers Effortless Replacement for File, Print, and Groupware Servers for Enterprises and SMBs

The OpenBRR Corporate Community presents its closed membership as a way for CIOs and IT directors to safely share information, but some find this inappropriate.

SAVOY, Ill., April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Argus Systems Group, the global leader in trusted web foundations, today announced the release of PitBull Foundation and PitBull Foundation Suite for Linux. Users can now have MultiLevel Security (MLS) on a Linux platform.

Columnist John Gapper, writing in Monday’s FT under the headline “A threat to the fragile Linux ecosystem”, said: “Anything that makes companies less confident about Linux would provide a reason to buy Microsoft software instead, which is why IBM makes a point of supporting both Novell and Red Hat.” (For details, see: news.ft.com/home/us Registration required.)

Many private sector companies are not likely to join the OSS bandwagon unless they can see their competitors using the opportunity to make profit. "The private sector has more issues to worry about -- namely escalation of employee costs, foreign competition, shrinking market size, less mega-projects and environmental problems," said Open Source Special Interest Group chairman Lee Nan Phin.

I reported here about splitting an old Celeron machine and setting up small parts of it as separate Debian machines. In one of these machines, called oc03, I set up Debian Sarge with an Apache2 web server, a Postfix mail server, a MySQL database, PHP, FTP, Webalizer, in short: everything we have here on our real web hosting package as well.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- April 25, 2006 -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) and MySQL AB today announced that HP will offer new services for MySQL(R) database software.

Red Hat says Linux and open source have only scratched the surface on Wall Street and it is becoming increasingly expensive for proprietary vendors to compete.

  LXer Feature: 20-Apr-06
News from the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego.

DistroWatch reports - The Damn Small Linux project has released the first development build of DSL-N (Damn Small Linux Not), an enhanced live CD based on Damn Small Linux, but not limited to 50MB in size. Besides the usual base applications found in Damn Small Linux, DSL-N also includes the Mozilla suite, MPlayer, AbiWord, Gnumeric, Leafpad, Gaim, CUPS and a number of other popular software packages. It is powered by kernel 2.6.11 with Unionfs support available as an optional boot parameter. DSL-N is not designed to replace Damn Small Linux; instead it is intended for different set of tasks or perhaps for a slightly more demanding user.

OSDir has some cool shots of DSL-N in the DSL-N 0.1 Alpha Screenshot Tour.

NEW YORK -- Think you're going to save gobs of money by opting for Linux over other operating systems?

Reuters' market information services are now available for the SuSE Linux platform following a joint effort by the global information provider and Novell. Reuters says Linux is becoming an increasingly popular server option for many financial organisations.

Seasoned Security Expert and Vulnerability Researcher to Demonstrate Best Practices for Avoiding Devastating Web Application Attacks

The company touts the benefits of its Blue Gene supercomputer, which it says consumes less power and takes up less floor space than traditional systems, at the Linux on Wall Street conference.

LXer Feature: 25-Apr-06

This article is a response to "Microsoft Is Playing A Dangerous Game... One Which Linux Could Lose", which appeared on LXer a few days ago.
In his article, Ken Starks argues Linux could lose because of the anti-Linux tactics of Microsoft, including Port25 and DRM-technology. While Ken and I are both lobbying for Linux, and I think the same about DRM, I don't agree that Linux will lose. I feel obliged to inform US citizens about a bigger danger: The US as a country will lose because of Microsoft tactics, and not Linux. Most important, they will lose because of DRM.