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A group of companies promoting open-source software launched a campaign in Europe Wednesday that is designed to bolster the use of copyright law at the expense of patent law in a move they believe will help safeguard the spread of open-source software.

gnuLinEx is not a product born by chance or spontaneously, but rather by the need to fulfill a double goal. At OSDir, we've got some screenshots of the gnuLinEx 2004 Live Beta release.

Exporting environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 will affect performance of Oracle 10g instance on Red Hat Linux starting with version 9, i.e. version with Native Posix Threads Implementation.

Mozilla Foundation, the Firefox production stable, has raised over $100,000 in the past three days in its bid to make the public more aware of the Internet Explorer alternative, the firm said yesterday.

Kevin Thompson, the former chief financial officer of Linux seller Red Hat, has taken that post at SAS Institute, spokeswoman Desiree Adkins said Friday. He left Red Hat in September, after announcing his resignation in July.

Firefox hoped to raise enough money from donations to pay for an ad in The New York Times. Now it has more than enough. The campaign started on Tuesday with the goal of getting 2,500 people to donate $30 or more to the marketing fund within ten days, with the aim of placing a full page ad in The New York Times.

Introduction: By now you've probably heard of Linux. I don't know what you know but I'll tell you what I do. The technically correct name of Linux is GNU/Linux due to but when most people say Linux they mean a full, free, open source operating system that is making waves across the world and making Microsoft sweat by competing with Windows. Linux is free. Consider the word "free" for a second.

Bristol City Council may move up to 5,000 of its desktop computers to StarOffice next year. The move could save an estimated £1.4m over five years, a council spokeswoman said on Friday.

Slax is based on slackware distribution of linux. its a small livecd distro which pack quite a punch with such a small iso size. For newbies, its a great way to get introduced to linux without the need to format/install a operating system they dont even know about. and For Hardcore users its a great distro to carry on mini-cd when the needs comes to log into systems where u dont hav time or access to load operating system on it.

Hint: It takes more than tacking a life-sized poster of Richard Stallman as St. iGNUtius to your bedroom wall, although that's a good start.

A series of security holes in three common Linux components has led open-source vendors to rush out several updates in just one day. Two of them, rated "highly critical" by security company Secunia, are in libpng, a library used by a number of applications, including the Mozilla browser to display png graphics files... In addition, unspecified errors have been discovered in Xpdf’s logic which can be exploited to create infinite loops, crippling computers by consuming enormous amounts of system resources.

With India riding the wave of software development, global software companies want to leverage the India advantage. BEA Systems, the fifth-largest application infrastructure software company in the world, and one of the few Silicon-Valley-based companies which have a negligible presence in India, also wants to do the same.

Unisys announced two new partnerships this week, which it hopes will help reinforce its commitment to Linux.

Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista Software last week launched the Open Source Real-Time Linux project, an initiative aimed at bolstering the ability of Linux to run as a real-time operating system in such devices as communications equipment, industrial components and automotive systems.

New Mexico Software announced the availability of its Linux desktop at Amazon.com today. The digital lifecycle management software maker now sells Santa Fe, a Live CD version of Linux through the online retailer. The company's software is available as a free download.

Last time we talked about the hardware and software you need so set up an inexpensive home recording studio. Once you have all the pieces in place, it's time to begin using them to make music.

I came across it around mid September and after reading up on it, decided to install their September 15 pre-release on my IBM Thinkpad T22.

A new lobbying group has been formed to fight against the software patent directive due to re-appear in the European Parliament soon. The NoSoftwarePatents (NSP) campaign is supported by US Linux manufacturer Red Hat and Swedish open-source database company MySQL, as well as German software and Internet services provider 1&1 Internet.

A new version of Linux designed for the car industry hopes to make life easier for developers building navigation, hands-free phones and infotainment systems.

"KANOTIX is a Linux live CD based on Knoppix technology using Debian/sid. The included XFree86 is from Debian/experimental... optimal for HD install (you get a working Debian/sid install in about 10 minutes!)" Check out these KANOTIX 09-2004-A screenshots by OSDir.