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In yesterday's article we began looking at how PAM can securely authenticate Windows users. Today we'll check the PAM framework, harden the basic services that we expect to authenticate to, and look at new PAM modules that might make our systems more secure.

A five-company consortium has been awarded a €7 million three-year contract by the French Ministry of Defence to build a Linux-based multi-level secure operating system.

The release of Version 2.0 of the Linux Standards Base last week is one of the strongest efforts yet by the Linux community to avoid the mistakes of its Unix technology ancestors.

By now, nearly everyone has heard of the Linux operating system. Less have used it, and even less actually understand the principles on which it is based. Linux, more formally known as GNU/Linux, is an operating system that is rapidly growing in popularity and is freely available to the public under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Exactly how can such a powerful software suite be figuratively thrown out the window for all to take?

LinuxBeta.com has put together a screenshot slideshow of this Spanish Debian Sarge based distro.

Linux users in Wales now have a choice of two office suites. OpenOffice.org was released in Welsh last month, and now Kywaith Kyfieithu has announced a Welsh version of the new KOffice 1.3.3.

Sun Microsystems has apparently backed away from its efforts to acquire a Linux software distribution -- for now. The Santa Clara, Calif., network computer maker had been looking to augment its enterprise portfolio, sources told internetnews.com this week. But internetnews.com has learned that preliminary discussions between top Sun and MontaVista executives became terse, stalling because MontaVista CEO Jim Ready may not be ready to sell.

Google needs a browser, say the experts. It is the next piece of its evolution. Besides, the company's innovative toolbar has been watered down by the offerings of competitors. It no longer differentiates Google. "The next level is controlling the application," says Meta Group analyst Tim Hickernell.

This tutorial gives you a guide to the basics of using Emacs, a popular modeless text editor with many powerful features. The tutorial covers fundamental concepts and common activities, and then builds on those foundations to quickly familiarize you with this excellent editor.

Taking a page from OSS for improving interagency collaboration.

This article is supposed to be a review of the first PC with a Linux distribution preloaded offered by a tier-one OEM to the general public. As announced during the Linux World Conference and Expo in August, the NX5000 is available -- only online at HP -- preloaded with your choice of a custom version of SUSE 9.1 or Windows XP. You can purchase the NX5000 at other online resellers, but only with Windows installed. This isn't quite the review I hoped for, but it's as close as we could get.

A quick resolution to the Mambo open-source copyright dispute seems unlikely now that one of the parties has rejected an offer for mediation.

A consortium including Mandrakesoft, the Paris-based Linux seller that recently exited bankruptcy protection, has won a three-year contract worth 7 million euro ($8.6 million) to improve Linux security.

The Ministry of Finance in Denmark has implemented an open-source project to simplify data exchange between systems.

"A student of Mine, Julie Blaustein, did her thesis on the creation and transference of value in open source. She used Mozilla as a case to do her thesis. The thesis was completed in December last year. What is interesting though is that many things pointed out to in her thesis (as of late last year) are happening now in terms of the Firefox browser."

A consortium including Mandrakesoft, the Paris-based Linux seller that recently exited bankruptcy protection, has won a three-year contract worth 7 million euro ($8.6 million) to improve Linux security.

Mandrakesoft has won a 1-million-euro, three-year contract to help create a highly secure, Linux-based solution for the French Ministry of Defense. Managed by a five-member consortium, the project will take a Linux based solution to CC-EAL5 (Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5). This contract, Mandrakesoft's largest thus far, demonstrates the validity of the company's strategy of developing new business in the government and corporate marketplace.

This is a maintenance release that in addition to over 50 non-critical bug fixes, addresses a problem with GPC input processing. This release also re-introduces ability to write GIF images via the bundled GD extension. All Users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible.

Want to send your best buddy, boss, or promising client a drink "on you" via your wireless phone? You can, if your friend lives in London. Eagle Eye Solutions, based in the United Kingdom, is launching a new service today called Buymeabeer.com using a Linux-based server platform.

Allowing multiple users to seamlessly access Windows desktop and applications remotely without the performance hit associated with thin clients is being put into production by Sydney-based startup NetLeverage.