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Graphical XML editors generally take one of two paths. Ones like FrameMaker with SGML provide a tree-like structure that is often more arcane than editing the raw files. Others, like XMetal, offer a graphical interface whose resemblance to a standard word processor can be equally misleading. By contrast, Conglomerate takes a different approach with a graphical representation of XML structure that no one could mistake for anything else. Currently at version 0.9.1, Conglomerate still has rough edges, but enough basic functionality to suggest the potential of its approach.

The latest issue of the world's leading free software magazine is out and as usual it's free:

It's out! The first draft of version three of the heart and soul of open source software– the GNU General Public License – was released tonight after 15 years of status quo. Tectonic brings you the full document.

GNU Classpath, essential libraries for java, is a project to create free core class libraries for use with runtimes, compilers and tools for the java programming language.

The co-authors of GPLv3 release a document giving the rationale behind the changes proposed to the open-source license.

I have written a wee comment about that petition, criticising the shortfalls I see.

Any web developer, designer, or webmaster can benefit from having a local web server. Even if that developer has no interest in securing and maintaining the server his or her websites live on, a local web server can act as a convenient mirror for testing updates, trying new designs, and other general sand-boxing activities.

With the release of Fedora Core 5 Test 2, the Fedora Core Steering Committee would like to announce the transfer of Fedora Core 3 to the Fedora Legacy Project.

I usually like to wait for a Linux distribution to officially be released before I review it, but there comes a time in every mans life when he needs to live on the edge and this is my time. I am... ahem... living on the edge. I'm not sure how many of you recall, but last year I did a short review of Fedora Core 4 right before it's release (FC4 Test 2 if I recall correctly) to give everyone a rundown of what to expect in the eagerly anticipated release. I thought it would be interesting to see where it was at exactly one release later, so here we are folks.

Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Linux Kernel, which could be exploited by remote or local attackers to cause a denial of service.

The first issue is due to an infinite loop in the "netlink_rcv_skb" [af_netlink.c] function when handling a specially crafted "nlmsg_len" value, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service.

The second flaw is due to an error in the PPTP NAT helper that does not properly calculate the offset when handling an inbound "PPTP_IN_CALL_REQUEST" packet, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable system.

The third vulnerability is due to an error in the PPTP NAT helper that does not properly calculate the offset based on the difference between two pointers to the header, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a kernel crash.

The "experience" link on Microsoft's Windows Vista PR info is already tainted at this stage of the game.Try to view it on Ubuntu (or perhaps your favorite brand of Linux) with Firefox web browser. It's a link on the Windows Vista PR page called "The Experience" When you click it, the page is all messed up. Evidently Microsoft still needs a lesson in how to make w3c.org compliant HTML. Thus, your experience becomes immediately tainted. Guess they don't care about pulling over Linux fans back to their platform.

There are times when you are forced to use a Windows machine and there is no way of getting your hands on a PC running Linux. This situation is common if your office PCs all run windows and the company policy forbids you from installing an alternate OS on it. And you feel your productivity is severely hampered because certain tasks - which could easily be accomplished using the plethora of command line tools in Linux - do not have an easy solution in Windows.

(BNamericas.com Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)US software supplier Sybase (NYSE: SY) is looking to expand its product offering beyond databases in Mexico and is in search of distribution partners to help it sell solutions in the areas of business intelligence, RFID and Linux, online news service Infochannel reported.

The Free Software Foundation has published the first draft of the much-anticipated version 3 of the GNU General Public License. The draft of the new version is almost twice as long as version 2: It weighs in at more than 4,500 words, versus 2,500 for the earlier version.

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For many the choice between free and proprietary software is exactly that: a choice. But if you live in a country like Syria, which is at the receiving end of an extensive US embargo -- including an embargo on software -- free software may be your only choice. Which is not all bad, according to Anas Tawileh of the Syrian GNU/Linux Users Group. Frederick Noronha spoke to him during a visit to the Africa Source II workshop in Uganada this week.

Progress Real Time Division, an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation today released Progress ObjectStore Enterprise Version 6.3, the latest version of the industry’s most popular object database, featuring dramatic performance improvements across all environments and support for 64-bit Linux.

We are the customers of ATI who use Linux to power our computers. We will no longer endure ATi's poor driver support for Linux both in 32-bit and 64-bit computing.

We got it just a few hours ago--the proposed GPL 3 license. Most of the world got it from a web site, while a lucky few hundred of us got it at a formal meeting at MIT,

Lots of observers wondered how Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, and their advisers would handle such hot issues as remote services (called Application Service Providers in the 1990s) and patents. Surprisingly, the license embodies both the conservatism and the room for experimentation for which we can take U.S. law as a metaphor.

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The Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, New York Times and friends have a plan. If you work in the technology field, you don't figure into that plan. Also, why do we keep picking up the paper in our front yards and paying those monthly fees? For the Sports Section?