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As the Red Hat-JBoss Merger nears completion, JBoss chief -- now senior vice president of Red Hat's JBoss division -- sat down with CRN Senior Writer Paula Rooney at the Red Hat Summit in Nashville, to discuss the impact of deal on its existing partnerships, customers and partners, future co-opetition with IBM and interoperability pact with Microsoft. Red Hat announced its planned acquisition of JBoss in April and the deal was expected to be completed by the end of May. Red Hat and JBoss will detail their integration plans at JBoss World in Las Vegas in mid June.

The thieves stole a laptop from a car. The laptop held hundreds of thousands of transaction records, including credit cards, for Hotels.com customers. When you review Hotels.com's Security Policy, you'll see that, while the firm takes great pride in locking down everything its administrators can imagine, managers never saw the auditor's blunders coming.

This year's KDE World Summit, aKademy 2006, is approaching fast. The website is now live. On behalf of the programme committee I have the pleasure to announce that we will accept presentation abstracts as of now. Read on to find more information in the formal Call For Participation.

OSVids has posted a few very cool video clips of Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06, including XGL in action.

This is a set of utilities that make working with the UML2 API significantly easier for developers building MDA-style automation. The technology is delivered as a plug-in to Eclipse and provides utilities that will work with the UML2 and Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) APIs.

Groklaw member elhaard sends us a bit more detail about the Danish resolution that passed yesterday. We put the story in News Picks. The motion is called "B 103" and all material about it (even Parliament transcripts) can be found at the Parliament's home page. It's only in Danish, though. So he helps us out again, translating the last publicly shown version of the resolution.
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Parliament directs the government to ensure that the use of information technology, including software, within public authorities is based upon open standards.

It's no coincidence that PostgreSQL and MySQL released fixes for a SQL injection vulnerability within the last week. The SQL injection vulnerability find marks the first security collaboration between Open Source Database Consortium (OSDBC) members, but it probably won't be the last.

"Today (June 3rd, 2006) the 'Piratpartiet' is planning on a demonstration in Stockholm against the raid, and against the behavior of the Swedish police. There are several issues that are wrong with this picture. What the police, and anyone involved has done is indeed simply unacceptable. But what everyone seems to forget is that one of the issue revolving this circus is sharing of non-free software."

Originally built as a proprietary software offering, Pentaho has donated all source code from the acquisition to the open source community as part of the Pentaho project. This reflects Pentaho's continuing commitment to providing the richest set of open source BI capabilities, and to leveraging the open source development model to increase adoption and accelerate innovation at a faster pace than proprietary offerings.

Linux Networx, a high performance computing and clustering concern, recently delivered a pair of powerful Linux clustering products to two customers with eyes toward the skies - NASA's Center for Computational Sciences at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and ATK Launch Systems, a maker of weapons and space systems for the U.S. government.

Enterprise IT managers concerned about costly or proprietary data backup and recovery now have an Open Source option.

Multi Distro includes nine live CD Linux distributions in one ISO file that you can burn to a single disc. It uses the GRUB boot loader to present the user with a main menu from which they can choose which distro they want to run. By showing you how to make your own live CD composed of multiple live CD distros, Multi Distro packs a big punch.

The Ubuntu project has officially announced the release of Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Support (LTS) today. Ubuntu 6.06, better known by its code name "Dapper Drake," is the first Ubuntu release to offer an extended lifecycle, a GUI installer for desktop systems, and support for Sun SPARC systems. In a press conference yesterday, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth talked about the Dapper release, and how the project plans to address enterprise needs.

Ubuntu 6.06 has hit the download mirrors and OSDir has a large selection of beautiful screenshots for your enjoyment!

Find out about some of the capabilities that have been built into Eclipse plug-ins, such as the ability to program in other languages like Ruby or to build interactive multimedia with environments such as OpenLaszlo.

Are we choosing GNU/Linux distributions based on their quality, or is it the media hype?

Even if you have no intention of getting up close and personal with Linux, it may pay to download and burn a version called Knoppix (go to http://www.knoppix.org and click on the US/UK flag logo for an English version of the page or order it on DVD or CD from http://www.linuxcdmall.com/knoppix.html).

The government-run Central Trust of China has mandated for the first time that all desktop computers purchased from now on must be Linux-compatible, demonstrating the government's desire to widen the nation's usage of open source software.

Mozilla's Firefox browser has been updated to fix 13 security vulnerabilities -- five of them rated critical, according to a report June 2 by eWEEK's Ryan Naraine.

Some of the flaws affecting Firefox also exist in Thunderbird, Naraine writes

[Includes links to eWeek's report and DesktopLinux's report on Thunderbird. -- grouch]

Ubuntu makes printing reasonably easy and straightforward. This brief article is for those who need a specific and encouraging step-by-step guide. I hope that this article will not only ensure that you print with ease, but that you have every reason to enjoy a productive GNU/Linux desktop.