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The GNU-HALO project team, which had been working on a new FreeBSD operating system distribution for several months but ultimately decided to switch over to a Linux core, finally released its first edition, GNU-HALO Alpha 0.1 Linux live CD, on June 19, a team spokesman said.

With a flurry of activity in the sector, Linux on the cellular phone still has some hurdles to jump – not the least of which is a standard software stack.

Developer A.J. Venter has announced the first development release of OpenLab GNU/Linux 4.1 ("Conina"), a Slackware-based desktop distribution developed in South Africa. It features a 2.6.16.18 kernel and the KDE desktop.

One of the latest crazes in Web development is AJAX. Unless you've been living in a cave for the last year, you've heard of this old, yet currently popular, technique for making HTTP requests to a server without refreshing the Web page. While claims of smaller bandwidth, faster response, and highly interactive user interfaces may intrigue you, one must ask, "Will it work for my user base?"

Venezuela's science and technology ministry MCT has started up an open source academy (ASL) in the capital district and in the states of Tchira and Carabobo to promote the production of open source solutions, the government said in a statement.

So you have decided to try a free software operating system such as GNU/Linux, congratulations. GNU/Linux is not that different from other operating systems on the surface. You point and click using the mouse and call down menus to get programs to work.

NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris is built on top of solid Debian/Ubuntu ground and enterprise level OpenSolaris core. Before Alpha 5 was released the only option to upgrade OpenSolaris core bits were to backup user's data and re-install new ISO. But not anymore.

Compiere has secured its first external funding to the tune of $6 million and is planning to relocate its headquarters, the open-source midmarket business applications company said Tuesday

All Checkins to the Gecko 1.8.1 Branch now require driver approval.

CLP is not just a kernel, middleware or applications, but a complete software stack for mobile handsets: integrated; tested; certified; supported; and maintained, the company said.

Don't know your creative commons from your GPL licenses? Tony Curzon Price gives the essential, non-geek guide to cyberspace culture.

Martin Taylor, who led the software maker's anti-Linux "Get the Facts" campaign, is no longer with Microsoft.

[They should have parted ways with him as soon as they saw how lame his campaign was - dcparris]

I attended Korea's first LinuxWorld Conference and Expo last week in Seoul. The three-day event included keynotes from industry leaders, training sessions, and a show floor featuring roughly 50 vendors.

when OpenSolaris was released it seemed like a nice thing for all those Solaris admins who wanted a shiny new free version to play with, but not so relevant to folks with actual work to do. Zettabyte filesystem, however, changed the landscape.

Officially it's just ZFS now, not Zettabyte. But zettabyte is more fun to say. At any rate, ZFS is very impressive and represents a huge leap past other filesystems on the market. You know, all those filesystem utilities you've been relying on all these years? All that fsck, dump, restore, mkfs, tunefs, and their Ext3/JFS/XFS/ReiserFS/UFS counterparts; volume managers like EVM and LVM; raidtools; rysnc; quota; fdisk, and all the rest of the baggage you've been forced to lug around just to coax filesystems into a semblance of usefulness - using ZFS means you can dump them all. ZFS was written from the ground up to meet modern needs.

DistroWatch reports - Swecha LiveCD is a Knoppix-based distribution with support for Telugu, the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. OSDir has some nice shots of Swecha in the Swecha June 06 Screenshot Tour.

Published data reveals that, when identity thieves want Social Security numbers, they head for the fountainhead: Government. No other entity is as efficient at losing SSNs. The preferred method of acquisition? Unattended laptops. When that fails, crooks fall back to tapes, printouts, web postings, inside theft and other tricks wholly dependent on bureaucratic incompetence. After all, cracking networks from the outside can be tricky.

Slamming is a popular spammer tactic in which the spammer quickly fires off SMTP messages without waiting for responses from the receiving server. A poorly behaved MTA will then accept traffic from the spammer, instead of rejecting it as it should. But even well-behaved MTAs are affected because of the sheer volume of traffic with which they are forced to deal. The venerable sendmail, as of version 8.13, has a nifty feature called "greet_pause" that not only rejects incorrect SMTP transactions, but also discourages re-sends.

Welcome to this year's 25th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Matt Brown [1]created a couple of wrapper scripts around sbuild and debarchiver to automatically build uploaded packages. Isaac Clerencia [2]reported that the [3]Zaragoza City Hall has deployed a thin-client solution based on Debian in six elderly centres.

Speaking together on Making Open Source Work For You, Robinson and noted experts Jason Haislmaier and Stormy Peters address legal and operational best practices.

[Time sensitive: "[T]he event will be held Wednesday, June 21st at HRO’s Denver office and will run from 7:30 A.M. to 9:30 A.M." -- grouch ]

After a few delays, Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) is now fully supporting the open source PostgreSQL database on its Solaris 10 operating system.