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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

Welcome to this year's 12th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. The proposal from the meeting of release and ftpmaster teams was discussed controversial on the debian-devel list by many developers with more than 1000 mails. Many people don't appreciate to drop several architectures since supporting them was one big benefit of the Debian system.

Microsoft-funded study concludes that companies that install Linux-based Web servers run greater risks than those that use Windows.

Many people claim that the validity of the GNU Public License has not been tested in court in the US. Well, it just has been tested, in Michigan, in a case that validated open-source car diagnostic software against the pretension of automakers who want to keep it secret.

The ETTK-WS is a software development kit for designing, developing, and executing emerging autonomic and Web service technologies. The Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK) team bloggers bring you insights about the IDE for Laszlo, a member of the ETTK family of technologies.

It's perhaps the most controversial project in the open source world, but this mostly stems from misunderstanding: Mono, the open source development platform based upon Microsoft's .NET framework. Immediate reactions from many dubious Linux developers have ranged from confusion over its connection with .NET to wondering what the benefits of developing under it are.