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Stirling University has moved its SAP payroll and human resources (HR) system to an open source Red Hat Linux operating system.

The university implemented the Red Hat system when the server running the HR department’s SAP application started to suffer performance problems following an upgrade.

A new version of open-source database MySQL will be released next month, aimed at attracting more businesses. Version 5 is the most significant update in the database's history, the company behind it said. It adds a number of features considered important for companies that have long been available from market leaders Oracle, IBM and Microsoft. Chief among them are triggers, views and stored procedures.

So, you became excited and made a raft of changes to Firefox in one fell swoop? You can't remember what all those tweaks involved, but you've already noticed some feature or function that's not working the way it should. The fault probably does lie with something you did, but occasionally that's not true. Let's discuss a couple of very common, not-your-fault problems you might stumble across, and what you can do about them.

KDE 3.4.3 has been released. This release includes many bugfixes and increased translation coverage compared to previous versions.

Last time we learned the vocabulary and the concepts. Now we're ready to look at the code that will let us interact with OOo Calc.

At this year's LinuxWorld show at Olympia vnunet.com caught up with Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, to discuss the organisation's plans for the future.

Having watched and nurtured an open source community based around the Sugar customer relationship management (CRM) platform for the last 14 months, SugarCRM is hosting a developer contest to mark the 100th extension on the SugarForge.org development forum, and draw more attention to the already successful company.

Before I could pen down this post, I was cautioned about the “flames” I would encounter from Mac aficionados. It is indeed preposterous to assume that there could be anything better than a Mac. However, more than the software per se, I would argue on other counts- as would be clear to you all in just a short while.

The Porting Team is proud to announce to the Ubuntu world the release of Breezy Badger for three shiny new architectures.

The deals will consolidate and expand HP's existing Linux use agreements with the vendors.

Ubuntu.com announced - The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 5.10. This is the official Ubuntu 5.10 release, and includes installation CDs, live CDs, and combination DVDs for three architectures.

It's fresh, and OSDir's got the shots of Ubuntu 5.10 Official.

Linspire's Education Program Helps Schools Achieve One-to-One Computer Initiatives

James Prendergast's column, Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument, touched a nerve among FOXnews.com's tech savvy readers and ignited a heated response. Lxer's contributing editor Don Parris of the The Freely Project (USA) worked persistently to get these views aired.

For example: Massachusetts' argument was simple: they didn't want their public documents at the mercy of one vendor's (Microsoft) planned obsolescence. Try reading an Office '95 file with Office 2003; it doesn't work so well. Their upcoming release requires re-formatting all your existing documents to their new standard.

SA-based OpenLab International has introduced an ultra-light version of its Linux distribution that is designed to run on a range of computer technology.

Digi International has expanded its ConnectCore family to include ARM7 and ARM9 core modules. The ConnectCore 7U, ConnectCore 9P 9360 and ConnectCore 9P 9750 are flexible, high-performance embedded core modules that enable users to easily design in main processing functionality with fully integrated Ethernet networking capabilities. They are targeted at products such as access control systems, point-of-sale systems, RFID readers, medical devices and networked displays.

A small database consulting firm that maintains an open source, embeddable database says it has partnered with MontaVista. ITTIA says its db.* database has been tested on MontaVista Linux Pro 3.1, and the company will present a Webinar tomorrow (Thursday) on using db.* with MontaVista Linux.

Banc of America Securities has reiterated its "buy" rating for Red Hat Inc. stock and raised its price target for the Raleigh-based Linux reseller to $22 per share from $20.

"In the realm of open source, what was once all-Linux, all-the-time, has shifted gears to encompass everything from enterprise resource planning applications to Web browsers and CRM. Tiny startup companies and former pet projects of developers well versed in kernels and General Public License (GPL) now find themselves on the receiving end of millions and millions of investment dollars, while products like Firefox, MySQL and OpenOffice.org are now thrown about in a serious manner with household names like Microsoft Office, Oracle and others.

Sometimes encryption isn't enough to keep your conversations private. With standard encryption, it's theoretically possible for someone to steal your secret encryption keys and decipher the conversation. For conversations that need to be kept confidential, the Off-the-Record (OTR) plugin for Gaim saves the day. It leaves no trace of a conversation ever having taken place.

Ed Trager's A Quick Primer On Unicode and Software Internationalization Under Linux and UNIX is a good short intro to configuration and tool setup for working with Unicode on a Linux machine.