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Most Linux users know how easily they can run a Web server on their favorite distros. Unfortunately, serving pages is one thing -- finding them is another. That's when many users turn to ht://Dig.

LinuxQuestions.org recently interviewed members of the NVIDIA Linux team. The interview covers the internal use of Linux at NVIDIA, the current demand NVIDIA is seeing for Linux drivers, the biggest perceived obstacle in Linux becoming a mainstream gaming platform and the decision to maintain both an Open Source and closed source Linux driver.

Many of the most vocal open-source evangelists have been pinning their hopes on the public sector to gain a foothold against Microsoft. So the news that government users can now purchase Microsoft licences at an even lower price - thanks to the latest NHS contract invoking a new volume discount level - will be seen as a blow to their hopes.

If they want to send spam, make them pay a price. Built on the widely available SHA-1 algorithm, hashcash is a clever system that requires a parameterizable amount of work on the part of a requester while staying "cheap" for an evaluator to check. In other words, the sender has to do real work to put something into your inbox. You can certainly use hashcash in preventing spam, but it has other applications as well, including keeping spam off of Wikis and speeding the work of distributed parallel applications.

Dear Sirs We have noted the following article on your website: Experts Challenge mi2g Security Study http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/25798/ We have issued a response to the original LinuxPipeline article, which you should be aware of: http://www.mi2g.net/cgi/mi2g/press/feedback.php We would urge you to publish our response as well by way of balance. Best wishes

The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology.

The next generation of Zope, an open-source application server, was released on Monday. Zope X3 3.0.0 has been written from scratch to improve the architecture of the system.

The past week for us at OSDir was a busy one. In the past week we installed, captured screenshots, and built screenshot tours for Frugalware 0.1, Knoppix 3.6, Slo-Tech Linux 2.1, Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.4, SimplyMEPIS 2004.04, Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 Beta 1, and OpenOffice.org 1.1 Writer. Head over and have a look.

A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here.

In this month's toast.. To Evil!, Danny O'Brien's mock celebration of the foibles within the open source world, he lances and skewers Diebold, quite easily too; pops CherryOS's cherry; and lays bare Ubuttnakedness in hedonistic fashion. 'By their fruits ye shall know them, we are told. Time once again to look at last month's open source devilry, select three nominations for Most Evil Conducted This Month, and ask: how about *them* apples?'

It's official! Linux is the world's fastest growing operating system, and with version 2.2 Trustix continues to demonstrate day on day why this is so.

French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft announced on Tuesday that its revenue over the last fiscal year has reached €5.18m, representing a 33 percent increase year-on-year.

If you're ready to give video editing and movie making a try now that you know about Kino, here are some tips to get you up and running.

Linuxlookup.com is reporting ATI has released a new proprietary Linux driver (3.14.6). The Linux driver version 3.14.6 provides hardware support for many PCI graphic cards.

What have all of SCO's legal actions amounted to? In many ways, not much, but in others, SCO has profoundly changed how we think about technology. [and Steve explores this theme]

As the SuperComputing 2004 show kicks off in Pittsburg this week, Linux technology will be well represented among the big honking processor, storage and networking technologies on display.

Supercomputing 2004, Pittsburgh, PA (November 9, 2004) – Absoft Corporation today announced it will manage, sell, and support a new High Performance Computing (HPC) Software Developers’ Kit (SDK) for IBM Linux on POWER™ clusters and servers. The new Absoft HPC SDK is expected to become the standard HPC Development Kit offered to developers for IBM Linux on POWER servers and clusters.

The South Australian Democrat, who last year introduced a bill into state parliament to amend state software procurement policies, has again raised the issue of the government taking up the open source option.

A number of changes have been made to Security Enhanced Linux in Fedora Core 3--here's what you should know.

Red Hat Inc's Fedora Project community has introduced version 3 of the Fedora Core Linux operating system, including changes to the SELinux policy that enables users to target the most vulnerable programs.

Some tips for figuring out what all the startup messages flying by your screen actually mean.