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Concurrent has updated its Red Hat-based real-time Linux distribution for multi-processor x86 systems, adding support for multicore AMD and Intel processors. It has additionally announced real-time extensions and tools for SuSE Linux, and signed up Novell to help sell and support them.

For the last two weeks, the Linux army has seized on Tuttle, Oklahoma city manager Jerry Taylor as a symbol of all that's wrong with this world. This man attacked Linux maker CentOS without cause, threatened to call the FBI on the firm and refused to apologize for these actions even after learning the error of his ways. Typical Microsoft-loving, bureaucrat thinking, right? Our ongoing investigation into Taylor, however, has revealed that he may actually be a model for Linux zealots to embrace and follow.

I use FreeBSD and Linux on more than 15 servers at work. Here are 10 of the tools I find most useful.

All in all, a nice overview of some decent utilities. I can vouch for GNU Screen. It is especially useful over an SSH connection, where you don't have access to the virtual terminals. You'll have to read the article for the rest though. - dcparris

Daffodil Software, a Java database and replication technology company, today announced the beta release of Daffodil Replicator v2.1 with support for MySQL database replication as its major feature.

New features made available with version 2 of the Google Toolbar for Firefox provide users with the ability to easily integrate newly discovered feeds into the Google Personalized Homepage or other feed readers.

Anyone that thinks “nothing worth having is free” doesn’t know much about computers. A recent blog got me thinking that you don’t need to pay a penny for software to have a fully-functioning computer. You surely don’t have to fork over any cash to Microsoft or Apple for an operating system. The article is geared more towards the techies, but it's still good to see FOSS mentioned in mainstream media. Maybe his next article can focus on the user side of things. - dcparris

As it opens up to Linux and rival software, company faces deep skepticism over whether it's really changed its stripes.

Things have been busy in Massachusetts this year for ODF. Some of the roadblocks that had loomed ahead are now behind, and some new ones are ahead.

BOSTON, MASS -These are short "impromptu" videos I shot at OSTG's Slashdot Lounge in the middle of the ORG pavilion at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Their purpose is to help you put faces (and voices) to people whose names you often see on this site and others -- and one or two people who just happened to be in the vicinity and looked like they might have something to say, too.

Puppy Linux, one of the smallest-footprint distributions available, has offered its services to the One Laptop Per Child project spearheaded by former MIT Media Lab head Nicholas Negroponte. OLPC plans to distribute laptops to children around the world for $100 apiece.

Well, I know several Puppy Linux users who would agree that it's the perfect distro for the OLPC project - dcparris

After most anti-virus vendors wasted a year before they could detect any near-current version of Hacker Defender, many dismissed their failure as an anomaly. The Hacker Defender blunder just slipped through the cracks, right? Wrong. Late in December, a hacker unleashed an encrypted Hacker Defender along with the code. As, after three long months, fewer than half the anti-virus engines can detect the beasts, chances are excellent that you are not among the protected. Email Battles tells you who can, who can't... and how the a/v industry helps turn frustrated white hats black or gray. Anything but white.

Google is launching an upgrade to its toolbar for Mozilla's Firefox browser, adding enhancements to the search box and an antiphishing feature.

Speaking at LinuxWorld, CEO Kevin Carmony clarifies the company's goals, defends its Linux credentials and more.(DesktopLinux.com)

Actually, I think Carmony may be onto something. Most of us are looking for a Dell or HP to bring GNU/Linux to the masses. I think it would be better - and more in line with the FOSS philosophy to have several smaller vendors distributing GNU/Linux and various solution stacks on top of that. If some of the smaller OEMs would pick a distro and round it out as a turn-key solution for various markets, We would not have to worry about whether Dell or HP owns the hardware market. Nor would we have to worry whether Microsoft - or any other company - owns the software market. There's room for all kinds of fish in the technology sea. - dcparris

A new kernelmode rootkit has the ability to communicate via Internet Relay Chat without relying on outside applications. This represents a dangerous escalation in Windows rootkit ability, as previous kernelmode device drivers required help from usermode programs. While the IRCbot released is non-destructive, it can be easily enhanced. The developer has made the download available as a Visual Studio 2003 project.

Yes, RealNetworks exec argues at LinuxWorld, pointing out that commercial makers of the OS are open to tech like FairPlay and PlaysForSure. But the Free Software Foundation Europe countered this claim on Thursday, saying consumers have made it clear that they do not want digital rights management, or DRM, restricting their use of digital media.

OSLO, Norway (AP) - The Norwegian government said Friday it will increase its use of freely shared, open-source software to reduce its dependency on large computer companies like Microsoft Corp.

China’s Linux market revenue reached USD11.8 million in 2005, up 27.1% over 2004. 2005 saw a steady growth in the China Linux market, brought about mainly by the huge volume of government procurements and large-scale SCO Unix replacement by major banks and industrial projects such as Telecommunication and Internet cafes...

"One of the amazing benefit of working with open source is that you're interacting with a worldwide network of really, really smart people instead of dealing with your typical corporate software support structure," says J. Johnson, manager of Web technology for the Christian Science Monitor.

The email delivery firm looks set to open source some of its proprietary technologies.

David Ascher, CTO and vice president of engineering for programming tool vendor ActiveState, has seen his company through several incarnations. The latest change is ActiveState's re-emergence as an independent company after more than two years as a subsidiary of security software vendor Sophos. I talked with Ascher about what ActiveState's new status means, where the company has been and where it's going. His answers illustrate the challenges of building a company around free and open source software, and reflect how the market for FOSS has changed over the last six years.