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Novell last week tried to give customers even more reason to buy into its open-source-oriented strategy, which is designed to meld the best of Linux and NetWare services. The company announced that its GroupWise messaging and collaboration system will come bundled with SuSE Linux, and its ZENworks systems management offering will be able to control Windows workstations from Linux servers.

Black Duck Software is rolling out an on-demand service that will help small companies establish their software compliance processes at a modest cost. This puts open source licensing analysis capabilities within reach of small software development shops, law firms involved in intellectual property litigation and venture capitalists doing due diligence.

Red Hat Linux Desktop is in a class of its own.

Veteran financial services executive and director at PeopleSoft and Interwoven brings Wall Street experience to advancing Linux at OSDL

Several new features of the recently released OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta require a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Since Java's license is neither free nor open source, a small but vocal minority has responded both strongly and negatively. For instance, when NewsForge recently published a review of the beta, no other feature attracted as much comment. Some groups, including members of the major GNU/Linux distributions, most of whom repackage OpenOffice.org (OOo), have responded by looking for alternatives, often while cursing the project for the extra work it has dumped on them. How did OpenOffice.org come to rely on Java? What problems is it likely to cause? How are GNU/Linux distributions reacting to this change in a key piece of software?

Usually, you want a shell script to just run to completion, one command after another. There are times, however, when a sequence of events includes a step upon which subsequent steps depend for successful execution. For these times, two useful commands are wait and sleep, both of which cause a delay in the script execution.

Well, well, what have we here? SCO has put up its own legal documents page after all. Evidently the generic brand anti-Groklaw websites that coincidentally sprang up just when theirs didn't were not a huge success. So they have put up their own page here: http://www.sco.com/scoip/ All they have there so far are some of the legal documents in all their cases. But Frank Sorenson noticed one little thing: it appears the defenders of their most holy IP grabbed the PDFs from Groklaw and Frank's tuxrocks.com site, without giving us credit for doing the work of obtaining the documents from the court and scanning them to create the PDFs. Oops.

The long awaited 2005.0 release of Gentoo Linux is the first and most prominent news in this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter! Regular visitors to the Gentoo website may have noticed that the PayPal donation button is back, and the Gentoo bugzilla now supports SSL encrypted connections. Other features this week: a developer portrait of UK-based Marcus D. Hanwell, an after-show report from the Open Source Conference in Tokyo held last weekend, and plenty of news from the community, press clippings, developers leaving the project and new ones arriving, and of course the regular sections of bugzilla statistics and security alerts. Enjoy reading!

An interview with Matthew Szulik in India at LinuxAsia 2005.

Leading Asset Management Company to Expand Novell's Award-Winning ZENworks Suite

In this document I will walk you through the process of creating a Debian package for Xandros 3.0.

Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at problems in KDE, MySQL, Perl, Ximian Evolution, GnuPG, OpenSLP, Ringtone Tools, LuxMan, and Ethereal.

Relax, this isn't another newsletter about the latest Microsoft anti-Linux campaign.

The worldwide.kde.org contributors map has hot fresh updates. The contributor map on worldwide.kde.org shows developers, translators, doc writers, artists, packagers and other contributors of KDE in all the world. If you are a contributor to the KDE Project, submit your coordinates.

Adobe has made a download of the Linux version of Adobe Reader 7.0 available on its ftp site. The newly renamed utility handles portable document files (PDFs) deftly, and additionally now allows users to collaborate on projects and provides additional file security at the server-level, according to Adobe.

While XQuery was designed for querying large document bases, it serves as a fine tool for transforming simple documents as well. This article shows how XQuery offers a fast and easy way to scrape HTML pages for the data you need. XQuery is the perfect tool for you if your goal is simplifying complex pages for display on small screens, or extracting elements from multiple pages to aggregate them together on a home-grown portal, or simply extracting data from Web pages because there is no other programmatic way to get the data.

The Open Enterprise Server aims to facilitate migration to Linux.

SCO Group has finally made public the Web site it promised last fall. SCO.com/scoip/ purports to be "The Right Place for SCO Intellectual Property Information."

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for March 24, 2005. We installed some great distros over the past couple of weeks.

We were able to grab screenshots of the following: Solaris 10 CDE 1.6, Solaris 10 JDS 3, K-DEmar 3.0, SphinxOS 4.0 Home Edition, Mandrakelinux 10.2 RC1, Damn Small Linux 1.0 RC1, Momonga Linux 2 beta 1, Kubuntu 5.04 Preview (KDE 3.4), BLAG Linux And GNU 30000 Beta, Mozilla 1.7.5, Linspire Five-0, and Ark Linux 2005.1 (KDE 3.4).

Despite open-source developers' concerns, Free Software Foundation's general counsel predicts no difficulty in moving to third version.