Showing all newswire headlines

Phillip Lougher announced the release of SquashFS 2.1, a compressed read only filesystem. Significant speedups were achieved in this new version by indexing directories and sorting them alphabetically. To highlight this improved performance, Phillip offered some benchmark comparisons between SquashFS 2.0, SquashFS 2.1, zisofs, and Cloop. Other improvements include an increase in the maximum directory size from 512 KB to 128 MB, and up to a 25% performance increase in the mksquashfs utility.

Worldwide Market for Packaged Software on Linux Projected to Reach $14 Billion by 2008

During the past week at OSDir.com we kept our hands full, doing screenshot tours of Caos CentOS 3.3, OpenOffice.org 1.1 Draw, BeatrIX Linux November 04, Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official, and UHU-Linux Live 2.2. Be sure to head over and have a look.

A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here: shots.osdir.com.

As takeup of Mozilla's open source browser continues to increase, the group is to take out another ad in The New York Times, which it says will contain something unexpected

Connecting road warriors with a full-blown open-source VPN solution. If your company has people on the road, such as sales or technical people, a VPN is a good method for letting them access data on the company network. Many different VPN solutions can be bought, but many are free. Here, I discuss only solutions you can set up without buying a commercial VPN product.

db4objects, Inc., the company that produces the object-oriented database engine called db4o, last week released it under the terms of the General Public License (GPL). CEO Christof Whittig hopes that the release of the database engine as open source will encourage embedded applications developers to give it a try. It's a big move for a company that earlier this year listed the price of its source code at $40,000.

O'Reilly sub-titles this excellent book, "Beating the 0-Day Vulnerability Threat". But, author Bill McCarty gives readers the best summary of the Linux security model you may ever find.

Among open-source users, "Only 7 percent of companies work with multinational open-source software providers such as Novell or Red Hat, while most of the rest train their employees or hire independent professionals," Trends Consulting director Raul Bauer was quoted as saying.

Linux Bangalore/2004, India's biggest tech-fest for free and open source software was held in Bangalore, the country's IT hub, last week. Attendees from many countries got to see more than 80 presentations delivered by 62 speakers in a span of three days.

Linux Client Migration Cookbook A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating to Desktop Linux

A new study has found that Linux is more secure than most commercial software -- results that echo what its proponents have long said. A four-year study released today by Coverity, reports Linux has a low bug count, making the code more stable and secure. The 2.6 Linux production kernel, now being shipped with software from Novell and other Linux vendors, contains 985 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code, far below the industry average, said Seth Hallem, Coverity's CEO.

The number of female developers working on Debian is set to rise in the next few months thanks to the work of Debian Women

Novell's newest Linux certification has broken into the Top 10 "Hot Certs" for 2005, an annual ranking of technical certifications by CertCities.com, a leading certification publication.

An extensive review using a source-code analysis tool finds that the Linux 2.6 kernel has 0.17 bugs per 1,000 lines of code, compared with the 10 to 20 bugs per 1,000 lines generally found in commercial software packages.

Zinside (with the appropriate slogan "the Zen side of computing") announces the debut of the Zen Box server, a 100% open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange(c) and Lotus Domino(c). The French company uses an accessible and revolutionary approach to the server industry, which is frequently considered as too technical and is often dreaded by end users.

I urge you to consider leveraging the free resources available and trust you already have the motivation, the people and resources under your employ to create something durable and important for people all over the world. One way to move ahead is by scanning the works of the libraries of Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library and others into the OASIS "OpenDocument" File Format of the OpenOffice desktop office suite. This will guarantee public access to the libraries' contents as well as indirectly promote Google's interests in search.

It deals with reading XML-files using DOM. I will learn more about FPC/Lazarus/XML like SAX-parsing, XPath, XML-RPC and then write some more tutorials - so, perhaps, in the end we will have a collection which can be called "FPC and XML"

South African Linux training company Afribiz is spearheading an effort to have more than 200 applicants sit the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) examinations in just one day next year. Kin le Roux of Afribiz says the only other country that has attempted this before is China which did it earlier this year. "Obviously we would like to do even more than China did," says Le Roux.

Adobe's combination of PDF, XML and productive use of J2EE and WebSphere, creates Intelligent Documents that can dynamically interact with core applications and integrate people into business processes.

With great pleasure I would like announce creation of the kde-graphics-devel mailing list. The list is developer oriented and will be the central place for all eye-candy development within KDE. Developers and researchers from the computer graphics field are welcomed and strongly encouraged to subscribe. Everything computer graphics related will be on topic - that includes developments within the X.org community, uses of OpenGL within a desktop environment or simply sharing your latest computer graphics research findings with others.