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The GNU/Linux User Show #18 is online! After a short break to upgrade server, we're back strong. This week I talk with Aaron Seigo of the KDE Project. Aaron shares some history and tips and tricks for new users as well as lets us in on the good stuff to come in KDE Plasma.

The joint plan, the first of its kind, allows customers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 in an IBM BladeCenter chassis to purchase a single license supporting up to 14 blades.

Conceived at UbuntuDownUnder, The Fridge is an information hub for the Ubuntu community, bringing together news, grassroots marketing, advocacy, team collaboration, and great original content.

PC X servers are used by millions of engineers, network administrators and others to access applications on remote UNIX/Linux servers from their Windows PC workstations.

Once friends, then adversaries, and now partners, Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and RealNetworks Latest News about RealNetworks Chief Executive Rob Glaser stood together on stage Tuesday to say they have settled all their antitrust Latest News about Antitrust proceedings and will overhaul their companies' antagonistic relationship.

The $761 million settlement and resulting partnership is intended to help Seattle's two largest software companies compete against rivals such as downloadable-music giant Apple Computer Latest News about Apple Computer, search leader Google Latest News about Google and a music-subscription service from Yahoo!

Software company Alfresco is putting the finishing touches to the first release of its open source content-management system, which it claims is the first non-proprietary product to hit the enterprise content management (ECM) industry.

Continuing where we left off yesterday -- careful assessment of integration and customization costs in many ways is the key to avoiding an open source nightmare. Unlike commercial products, open source projects are not usually created with the modern IT infrastructure environment in mind. Integration with single sign-on or support for monitoring protocols such as SNMP might not exist. Support for databases might be narrow and limited to a few choices or to one database. Support for standards might be lacking.

Grisoft, makers of the popular AVG Anti-Virus offering, has warned that it is "only a matter of time" before Linux becomes widely targeted by virus and malware writers.

Michael Foreman, a partner at AVG UK, said: "In the past few years we have seen the use of enterprise Linux applications growing steadily, and it is only a matter of time before we can expect to see virus attacks specifically targeted at these users.

Pantalone, whose team previously performed high-end constructive simulation on UNIX(R) systems before moving to the 64-bit Novell SUSE Linux(R) Enterprise Server environment available on Altix.

ARMONK, NY -- Oct 12, 2005 -- IBM today announced plans to contribute key intellectual assets to the open source community, in an effort to help companies and software practitioners adopt and share best practices for software development.

Alan Cox [interview] submitted a pair of patches to add error detection and correction (EDAC) logic to the 2.6 kernel. He noted, "I don't think its yet merge ready but getting there so I'd appreciate other folks comments and views on what else needs fixing before generating a submission for Andrew." Alan has submitted a subset of thebluesmoke kernel module which "is mainly concerned with reporting ECC, PCI, machine check, cache, hypertransport, thermal throttling and related events." This version of the patch is only for the 2.6 kernel, and was renamed from bluesmoke to EDAC.

Memory error checking used to be accomplised with a parity checking bit that was attached to each byte of memory. The parity bit was calculated when each byte of memory was written, and then verified when each byte of memory was read. If the stored parity bit didn't match the calculated parity bit on a read, that byte of memory was known to have changed. Parity checking was a reasonably effective method for detecting a one bit change in a byte of memory. ECC expanded upon this idea with the use of a hashing algorithm that calculates a checksum for multiple bytes of memory. This checksum can be used to detect when one or more bits has changed. On single bit errors, it can also restore the memory to its intended state, actually correcting the error.

New Cordless Internet Phone Provides Convenient Use of Free Skype Internet Calls

Trying to figure out if your laptop is connected to your home or office network? ping it.

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 105:

This comment refers to the article "Vista licensing move pushes NSW governmental shift to Linux"

How readers are using MySQL. At the end of last week's newsletter about the latest MySQL update, I asked how this open source database is being used among newsletter readers. From the large response, it appears the database is an integral part of many reader's Linux-based server platforms, and runs in a variety of ways.

Seeking to deliver on the needs of enterprise customers, JBoss, Inc. today unveiled its strategy around the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) as the market’s only interoperable, open source platform for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture).

No doubt that the OpenSOurce community is shaken by the announcement on October 7th that Oracle is acquiring Innobase, the company behind InnoDB.

This is a must see for anyone involved in promoting the Linux desktop. It applies to developers, systems integrators, consultants, and anyone who has set up a Linux box for his or her grandparent(s) to "save" him, her, or them from Windows.

Exercise for LXer readers: set up your machine to so that you can download and watch the videos in Theora format with either a single of a double click (your choice) from your file manager.

Choice is a good thing, and Linux users have plenty of it when selecting a program for Web development. Users can choose from the basic no-frills text editors, to full-featured "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) programs. Here's a survey of the best programs I've used.