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Author's experience with MSN bot and google research says MSN bot is bombarding open source sites. I kept wondering why my best read articles sunk lower on google and now I believe I know.

OpenBSD supports several authentication methods besides a simple password. Here are some ways you can keep your systems safe.

The NSW government is asking Linux companies seeking appointment to a panel of suppliers to its agencies to address their ability to protect customers from "anti-Linux" litigation.

OK. So anti-trust lawyers would have a field day but consider this -- the software giant is on an official spending spree and this is the best time to spread its wings ... to become the Coca-Cola of the IT industry.

More than a year after the German city of Munich declared its landmark intention to abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux, its councilors are finally ready to go ahead with the plan.

We're not sure about this week's effort on behalf of Gartner, because we didn't get it in the first place and it may be that, bless 'em, they've drawn our attention to something they never actually distributed.* Not directly, anyway. The unreleased/dereleased release was headed: "Linux has a fight on its hands in emerging PC markets says Gartner," and we can track it back as far as this report here, which you'll note Gartner wants a cool $795 for the full text of.

The former head of Microsoft Corp's Windows business has given his financial backing to SourceLabs Inc, a new open source support and services firm set up by former executives at BEA Systems Inc.

Mozilla 1.8 Alpha4 has been released. The headlines links to the README file.

Welcome to this year's 38th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal/Danga interactive gave a talk at this year's OSCON on the use of Free Software in a large scale web application which is based on the Debian operating system. Slashdot reported about the hardening effort for Debian that was recently started by Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro.

linux.conf.au is Australia's leading Linux and Open Source developers conference and has been running since 1999. The 2005 conference will be held in Canberra in April.

XML publishing has been thrown around as a catchphrase in the industry quite a bit. What does it really mean? Most XML-based publishing happens entirely on the Web, although great tools exist for doing print publishing with XML. This two-part article will guide you through the details of print publishing with XML, using tools that come standard with most Linux distributions.

A team of computer industry veterans including a former Microsoft executive are launching an open-source company that aims to be the Dell of the software industry.

Peter Lamont, CEO of Miro International Pty Ltd., has lobbed the latest volley in the ongoing cat fight over the copyrighted open-source Mambo content management system. Lamont is now claiming that the OSSI (Open Source Software Institute) sided with Furthermore Inc. and that, therefore, Miro executives will not talk with either organization.

The OOo community has begun to release some macros and add-ons to extend the functionality of the office suite.

By now most of you have heard of the copyright infringement and code theft claims involving the Mambo content management system and businessman Brian Connolly. Legal questions have been raised, guesses have been made, commentary has flowed forth, and everyone involved in the dispute has had their fifteen minutes to relay their sad tale of injustice. Now it is time for the facts, and NewsForge can definitively say that Connolly's legal claims against the Mambo community are baseless. Read on ...

SourceLabs arrives on the open-source scene with a high-profile roster of talent and $3.5 million in its coffers.

More than a year after the German city of Munich declared its landmark intention to abandon Microsoft Windows in favor of upstart rival Linux, its councillors are finally ready to go ahead with the plan.

Red Hat Inc. Monday announced the availability of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 beta, code-named Nahant.

Every IT manager knows the importance of keeping systems patched. Applying the most recent patches for the server and all the software is one of the most basic tenets of good security. Unfortunately, even if you keep all of your servers and application patched, you still won't be safe from hackers. The most overlooked and misunderstood vulnerabilities on servers are undoubtedly Web application vulnerabilities. Here are the five most common Web application vulnerabilities, based on ScanAlert's daily experience auditing and certifying the security of thousands of Web sites.

"CIOs in general are pretty risk-averse people. I certainly am. This is not going to go away. But I believe we'll reach a point where Windows and Linux desktops co-exist. It'll be a viable alternative not just to consumers but in all enterprises to make the decision between Linux and Windows," said Anderson in her interview with vnunet.com.