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According to Jeffrey Wade, worldwide open source and Linux marketing manager at HP, the company is reacting to continuing increases in customer demand for a wider variety of options -- demand which he said is increasingly turning toward open source solutions.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/23/2006 -- Fabric7 Systems, Inc., a company that has achieved a fundamental breakthrough in server design, today announced it has set new standards of performance on the SPECjbb2005 (Java Server) computing benchmark with its Q160 enterprise server. The results of the benchmark testing, published on the SPEC Web site (www.spec.org), clearly establish that the company's next generation architecture delivers enterprise scalability on industry standard hardware and operating systems -- bringing the economics of x86 systems and Linux to the core of the datacenter.

Three organizations--Stanford University, Coverity, and Symantec--recently received a Department of Homeland Security grant to assist open source projects in tightening their code with automated code-checking. The question is, will this help be welcome? LinuxPlanet speaks with Coverity's CTO and founder as well as Linus Torvalds to see just how useful Coverity's defect reports have been.

JANUARY 23, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Red Hat Inc. and SUSE have released patches for a critical security hole in their Linux distributions that stem from a vulnerability in the KDE desktop environment.

KDE is a user interface package used with several versions of Unix and Linux. The KDE hole was discovered Thursday and received a rating of critical from both Red Hat and the French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT).

"Yesterday's heroes are today's villains -- and vice versa"

[ed: An excellent read on current issues in journalism and politcs.]

Janco Associates, Inc. has just released its 1st quarter 2006 Browser Market Share White Paper. The major findings include that Firefox has maintained its number 2 browser position and in the past 12 months has added 7.81% to its market share.

Welcome to our issue number 30 of Fedora Weekly News.

http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_30

" . . . in Part 4 of our Knoppix cheats article, you will learn how to put together all the stuff you learned in Parts 1 through 3 to make a very portable, Live-Knoppix setup. It's really very slick and it is very handy too . . . The Knoppix live CD or live DVD together with a USB Key and the persistent Knoppix trick pretty much give you a portable computer on a disc and USB key . . . If a person can turn on a personal computer and drop a disc into the CD drive, that person can run and use Live Knoppix Linux . . ."

Welcome to this year's fourth issue of DistroWatch Weekly. The developers of Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu have moved one step closer to reach their goals during the past week when new test builds were announced by the three projects. SUSE's development process will now accelerate dramatically, while Red Hat has hinted on returning to a 6-month release cycle after Fedora 5. Also in this issue: the parent company of Turbolinux under investigation, features of SecureAPT, PCLinuxOS unveils a new web site, and AGNULA loses funding. Finally, we interview Alan Baghumian, the developer of Parsix GNU/Linux and one of the most enthusiastic and energetic Linux supporters in the Middle East. Happy reading! Join us at irc.freenode.net #distrowatch

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS, a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns.

Sleek, sexy, sinfully fast and leaves you in full control. VectorLinux SOHO-5.1 is at the door.The Vector development team is proud to announce the final release of our SOHO 5.1 product.
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

Open source major Red Hat Ireland is planning to acquire 40 per cent of the total equity in its sister concern, Red Hat India for which the latter has sought Foreign Investment Promotion Board’s (FIPB) approval.

Red Hat India is seeking to transfer around 28 lakh shares of its total 70 lakh shares to Red Hat Ireland. Red Hat India would use the amount for expansion in the country.

[Ed. A lakh equals 100,000 -tadelste]

This is a simple Perl script that uses the Pcap module to dump MSN Messenger traffic. Use this code wisely as you may be invading privacy.

The first Australian linux conference held outside Australia rolls into town

[Ed: Find out who will be at Dunedin - dcparris]

For 35 years, the Unix operating system has been a mainstay of the computer industry, from its origins as a time-sharing system used by horn-rimmed academics to its central role running some of today's most powerful servers. But enthusiasm for this sophisticated piece of code is in decline as sales flatten, while Linux, the Unix-like alternative, thrives. Which leads to the inevitable question: Is Unix itself on the wane?

The minutes of the mozilla.org staff meeting held on Monday 9th January 2006 are now online. Issues discussed include Firefox 1.5.0.1 release schedule, Thunderbird 1.5 release and Marketing.

CyberLink launched PowerCinema Linux, providing an easy means of converting the Linux PC into a feature-rich TV entertainment center ideally suited for PC vendors targeting the CE market.

Microsoft last week unveiled new and updated tools for migrating from IBM Lotus Notes/Domino collaboration applications to Microsoft Exchange. With IBM's Lotusphere 2006 conference in Orlando, Fla., this week, the timing seems more than coincidental.

With the recent security issues facing Windows users, it's time to start seriously considering alternatives to Microsoft's software.

Whether you like Windows or not, sometimes it is just the only option available. When a situation like this arises, it pays to be prepared. This guide goes over setting up a USB flash drive with a number of programs which can run directly from the drive. This means you can access programs like Firefox, OpenOffice, and Thunderbird, with your settings and favorites, and feel right at home on any system in a matter of seconds.