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The best discoveries emerge from obscurity. My favorite discovery of last year was GRML Linux. You won't find this gem in the top 100 at Distrowatch, but if you ask me, it works better than all the usual names.

Configuration Management Maker Adds Mark Hinkle as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development

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Software Freedom Law Center Addresses Erroneous Interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley as Applied to the General Public License

If there is one technology that took hold in the enterprise in 2005, it's virtualization. The software moved from test and development and into the data center faster than anyone imagined, including the experts. And while there are sure to be some bumps in the road in 2006 as the technology moves from awareness to adoption, you can bet most IT pros will be running virtualization in the data center before the end of next year.

MRTG Configuration in Debian: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic.

This tutorial covers setting workbench preferences, working with views and perspectives,of the import and export wizards, using the Help features to aid in development , the resource Local History feature, and managing your workspaces in Rational Developer for WebSphere Software. It is the first tutorial in a series of seven tutorials created to help prepare for the RAD Certification Test 255.

Stob Farewell my lovely

Start-up XenSource has experienced its first growing pains in the form of a CEO swap and a few layoffs.

I've been a MythTV user since version 0.16, so I was happy to find out that version 0.19 is now available. MythTV 0.19 brings a number of improvements, new features, and added stability and usability.

In this paper we are going to describe a kind of vulnerability that is known in the literature but also poor documented. In fact, the problem that is going to be analyzed can be reduced to a memory adjacent overwriting attack but usually it is obtained exploiting the last null byte of a buffer, hence we are going to show that the same result is still possible writing behind a buffer, under certain conditions. To fully understand the subject of this article it's necessary to describe the memory organization1 of running processes, then the memory adjacent overwrite attack, concluding with our analysis.

In 1998, I knew one person who used Linux. He and I ran Red Hat 4.2 and 5.0 on fast 486 Intel processors at Cap Gemini. One day I asked him who to call for support and he answered, "What"? So, I started a Linux call center.

SPANISH FORK, UT – A world in which clusters dynamically grow, automatically replace failed nodes, and instantly allocate new architectures on demand is a step closer. Cluster Resources announced today the release of Moab Utility/Hosting Suite 4.5.0, which automates an organization’s control over their compute infrastructure dynamically provisioning, allocating, and securing resources. Moab provides true service level enforcement, resource optimization, and real-time billing, making utility computing a reality for today’s organizations.

The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Among the winners are Ubuntu, Firefox, MySQL and OpenOffice.org. The Members Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products in a variety of categories including Linux Distribution of the Year, Office Suite of the Year and Web Browser of the Year.

GPL-licensed software poses no special threat to companies covered by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), according to a whitepaper released by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). The paper rebuts recent statements to the contrary from Wasabi Systems, an embedded software publisher that advocates a competing open source license.

DistroWatch reports - The ParallelKnoppix live CD has been updated. What's new? Open MPI at version 1.0.1, the pi example for C shows how to use it; mpich.tar.gz is included in the 'Examples' directory, this shows how to compile and install software on a running cluster, and lets you run a very cool parallel Mandelbrot set plotter; Ganglia removed for the time being; missing MPITB source included; montecarlo.m does dynamic load balancing and is robust to node failure; tutorial updated.

OSDir captured ParallelKnoppix 2006-02-20 nicely in their recent Screenshot Tour.

Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Inc. believes in offering Linux on the desktop, server, and workstation. What he doesn't believe in, for now, is giving Linux full support on the desktop. In an exclusive interview, Dell explained his company's Linux desktop strategy to DesktopLinux.com's Steven J. Vaughan Nichols.

The Docebo project combines a learning management system (LMS), content management system (CMS), and knowledge management system (KMS) in one suite, available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The integration of these components into a single suite saves users a lot of time, and provides a clean and convenient single window interface. I found Docebo to be very capable, though it does have a few glitches.

The one-year-old company Vyatta is attempting to grow a community around the Open Flexible Router (OFR) it has compiled with several already available pieces of software -- and perhaps bring something new to the router market.

The final minutes of the battle between BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and NTP Incorporated hinged on five patents that, when the dust settles, may not be enforceable. You know the outcome. Over $612 million slid from RIM's checking account into NTP's. Everybody picked sides, based largely on principle... or BlackBerry ownership. But once you've read the patents for yourself, you may find yourself switching sides.