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A vendor of embedded Linux-based KVM servers (keyboard, video, mouse servers) has agreed to acquire a vendor of embedded Linux-based console servers. Avocent says its $90 million acquisition of Cyclades will allow it to diversify its product offerings, while taking advantage of Linux's rapid growth in the enterprise server market.

Typically, installing Linux means donwloading (or buying) one or more ISO images, and then clicking through the install screens. In an effort to make Linux installs easier, some smart folks at HP developed LinuxCOE, where a user could choose some basic options through a web interface, and a small (30MB or less) ISO image is generated that can be used for a "hands-free" installation using either Kickstart, AutoYAST, or the Debian Preseed autoinstallers.

Just five days after Novell's OpenSUSE project released SUSE 10.1 Beta 1, the company on Thursday unveiled Beta 2, a bugfix version. As in Beta 1, the latest release supports the Intel and AMD x86 and x86-64 platforms as well as the PowerPC platform.

Advisories were released this week for ClamAV, CUPS, ImageMagick, phpMyAdmin, and several other packages. Distributions covered this week are Debian, Fedora Core, Gentoo, Mandriva, SUSE, and Ubuntu.

The problems with networked PCs are a modern-day plague for both librarians and network administrators. PCs crash, they freeze, they require constant updating and patching. End users amuse themselves by finding ways to circumvent whatever safeguards the network administrator has put in place. Depending on the age of the machine and the operating system installed, PCs display different desktops, a constant source of confusion for patrons. End users often intentionally or unwittingly introduce viruses into the network through them. And every few years, the library has to find funding resources to buy newer machines, because invariably the PCs become outdated and can no longer run the programs the library wants to use.

This is meant to help owners of amd64-compatible systems (AMD Athlon64, Turion64, Opteron64 etc, Intel Xeon with EM64T, Intel Pentium 4, Pentium D with EM64T) to set up a 64-bit linux system. it is geared towards gentoo linux, but should work on other distribution with minor modifications.

An estimated 1,000 patents spanning software, hardware and networking are destined to be sold to the highest bidder in San Francisco by a merchant bank this spring. Ocean Tomo is hosting the first in a series of two planned patent auctions this year, in a move the company believes will help - not hurt - innovation in IT.

Given our recent emphasis on open source and its enterprise implications, we thought it was the right time to repost this 2003 article on the theme of open source's appropriateness for the enterprise. --Editor

Mozilla has announced that over 20 million internet users have downloaded the Firefox web browser since the release of version 1.5 on 29 November last year. The company claims to have seen strong demand for the browser, with " hundreds of thousands" of people downloading the new version of Firefox every day since its release.

Use of material fair, says court

Andrew Tridgell was named this week as the winner of the annual Free Software Foundation award for his work as originator and developer of the Microsoft-replacing Samba project as well as his development of rsync.

I am the senior system administrator for a national ISP. We run a cluster of blade servers as our primary mail/Web/DNS/RADIUS farm. I have found several tools that I cannot live without in this environment.

If you're relying on search engines owned by giant companies to shield you from Big Government, step away from that computer. Your faulty grey matter is a far greater danger to you. Email Battles shows you how to take care of yourself so Big Business and Big Government can duke without either of them pretending they care about you.

South African search engine, Jonga, is being indexed again by Google after a 10-day hiatus from Google’s search results.

Learning Regular expressions can be a real chore. But by using this utility, the finer nuances of regular expressions can be picked up easily.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is moving its content management systems over to the open source application server Zope.

Some Web users are reporting seeing a reformatted Google results page that has the links to specialized search pages listed in the left-hand column instead of placed horizontally across the top of the search box.

Open Source Pioneer Larry Augustin Joins Fonality's Board of Directors

[Ed: Note: You have to click through an ad to get to the story. - dcparris]

After years of official separation, Mozilla is just now shaking off some of the last vestiges of its parental association with Netscape.

Mozilla's Usenet(define) public newsgroups have been moved from netscape.public.mozilla.* to just mozilla.*. The renaming officially ends Mozilla's public Netscape news legacy after more than 8 years of active use.

Novell, through its CoolSolutions community-relations website, is conducting an online public survey to determine which Windows-only applications are most likely to keep Windows users from migrating to Linux. The company also wants to know which Windows-only apps would be most popular on Linux desktops if they were ported to Linux.