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The new Treo smartphone is GNU/Linux compatible and comes with Bluetooth connectivity--here's how you can set it up for your network.

Adobe Version 7 Acrobat Reader is now available for Linux - but you have to download it from their ftp server. This is a major upgrade to what Linux desktop users have had in the past.

Red Hat spent 16 months making the newest version of its premium product. A group of programmers released a free clone in less than two weeks.

Managing even a medium-sized Web site can be a real headache. If you are tired of manually managing content, updating news, and keeping track of old items, then you need a content management system -- software that makes it easy to handle the mundane administrative duties of a Web site. A good CMS lets you divide the task of posting content among many relatively unskilled people. The Mambo CMS, released under the GPL, is designed to handle the largest of Web sites, and, in my experience, does so admirably.

Microsoft is delighted that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is swapping Linux for Windows - but the open source community is highly unimpressed.

A minor security update for Mozilla Firefox has been released. Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 fixes a buffer overflow flaw in the GIF image processing code. More information can be found in the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 Release Notes and we expect that the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories page will be updated soon.

Ruffdogs recently acquired BUGS-The Bug Genie Software from zegenie Studios of Norway.

Microsoft has been accused of dragging its feet over the introduction of a version of Windows that doesn't include Media Player.

The software giant has come under fire for 'yet another example of how patents can kill or inhibit standards'.

Linuxblog Editors Note: This article was written as a direct response to the report published by Security Innovation in March 2005 featured at various news sites.

You're ready to get trained in Linux. But how much of your hard-earned cash is this going to cost you? Alan McKinnon looks at the options - and how much they are going to set you back financially.

SALT LAKE CITY -- There have been so many announcements, so much activity, such a hurried pace to the Brainshare 2005 conference that I think many may have overlooked the big story. It was thrown out in an almost offhand manner during Novell CEO Jack Messman's keynote address on Monday: Longtime Microsoft partner Novell is migrating all of its own 6,000 Windows desktops to Linux.

A plethora of partners, led by IBM, launched Africa's first Linux competency centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, earlier this week.

This article looks at user reactions to common problems with user interfaces and corporate policies, and how these reactions can make some common business decisions counterproductive. When it comes to inconveniencing your customers, and sometimes even offending them, are some sales tactics worth it in the long run?

Most of us have heard of BitTorrent, the highly scalable peer-to-peer file sharing technology designed to reduce the bandwidth strain on content distributors. With BitTorrent, the challenge is not in finding content to download, but in installing BitTorrent on your computer and finding a good, user-friendly client to manage them. We took a look at BitTorrent itself and the excellent Azureus client, and can offer you some tips on how to install them on your system.

An interview with an organizer of Asia Source about what NGOs and OSS technology can do for each other.

Day 3 at BrainShare 2005 was another busy day. I managed to visit informally with a couple of Novell customers at breakfast, followed by formal meetings with other customers and channel partners in the press room. Last but not least, I was able to meet one-on-one with two Novell executives: CIO Debra Anderson and VP Jeff Hawkins.

Do you speak open source, but English is not your native language? You can turn to a growing list of user-friendly tools for translators, including specialized graphical tools like poEdit, KBabel, and Gtranslator.

Expanded Linux Offerings Increase Customer Choice and Flexibility Across the Database Tier

Moving Driver's License Management System to Linux Increases Service Uptime to 99 Percent and Reduces Software Costs by 30 Percent