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Chris Kennedy, ivtv driver developer and Jarod Wilson, author of the Fedora MythTV How-To will be our guests

Shortly after announcing the merger of Mandrakesoft and Conectiva into Mandriva, the newly combined company released a transitional "limited edition" GNU/Linux distribution to bridge the gap between the two parent distributions. Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 may look a little different, but it's the same great Mandrakelinux desktop distribution that you're used to.

The OSI risks alienating vendors by pursuing strict open-source licensing requirements.

This week we have the pleasure of interviewing Frank Warmerdam. Frank is well known in the Open Source GIS Community for his GDAL (Generic Data Access Library)/OGR library which provides seamless access to a wide range of vector and raster GIS data formats. GDAL/OGR is used in virtually all of the popular Open Source GIS applications out there - including of course QGIS

"The combination of Linux and identity is a powerful one," Messman told 6,000 attendees at this year's BrainShare conference. "Businesses are turning to Linux because it helps them address their priorities."

On the scene of Canada's largest computer show for 2005.

In addition to the OSDir Ubuntu 5.04 screen shots posted at ubuntulinux.org, international desktop screen shots are now availble. Languages include Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Enjoy!

Red Hat Inc, a leading provider of open source solutions for enterprises, expects more Malaysian companies to subscribe to its service with the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 4.

This article will show how you can create Java classes from scratch using the Eclipse ASTParser.

"RHEL 4.0 was quite nice and a great update for enterprise Red Hat users. I even have an FC3 box around that I use to keep myself up to speed on what is certainly a popular distribution for both new Linux users and Red Hat Linux refugees. So let's look at the latest and greatest from Fedora, Fedora Core 4 Test 2..."

There is a better way to browse the internet than with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. That's what the news about the Web browser Firefox would have you believe. The upstart, open-source browser has even rekindled talk of a "browser war", which practically no one has spoken of since the old days of Internet Explorer versus Netscape.

Mozilla's Firefox browser includes a built-in capability (Live Bookmarks) for working with news feeds. However, there are numerous news reading extensions available that provide a full range of additional capabilities, from "just the basics" to options for managing and using collections of news feeds.

More than 150 developers of the recently released Linux distribution Ubuntu are in Sydney working on storming the desktop market.

The 'Hoary Hedgehog' release of Ubuntu Linux is here, and the Free Agent likes what he sees.

Becta, the Government's lead agency for ICT in education, is set to release a new report which will say that schools could save significant sums by switching to open source software, eGov monitor can report.

THE little known open source relational database management system FirebirdSQL is finally gaining momentum and recognition. This database system sprang forth when Borland's (called Inprise then) InterBase 6 sources were opened to the public in 2000.

Microsoft may have raised eyebrows when it announced its intentions to turn Windows into a "trustworthy" platform, but the open source Linux is set to support trusted computing, among other enhancements, in its next release. Speaking at Linux Australia's annual Linux conferernce, Linux.conf.au, in Canberra last week, Colorado-based Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet said predicting kernel development is hard but is "possible".

A small Auckland company is proof that it is unnecessary to stick to Microsoft-based software to run a viable IT services business.

Have you ever wondered how many people are scanning your server looking for weaknesses? One way to find out is to install the Port Scan Attack Detector (psad), is a collection of three lightweight system daemons that alert you to suspicious network activity by analyzing iptables log files.

This introductory article summarizes the benefits of using Open Source software in an educational environment, where budgets are often tight and staffing support is minimal. Using a Linux "thin-client" configuration, the author shows the stark contrast between a Microsoft based lab and a Linux lab.