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Interview: OSDL chief Stuart Cohen - Part 2
In the second of a two-part interview, Open Systems Development Labs chief Stuart Cohen gives his views on Linux security, desktops, the Domino effect towards Linux, and why Microsoft will eventually port to Linux.
Linux Desktop Approved for Japanese Ministries
The JDS Linux desktop has had significant success in Asian countries. Now the Japan ministry wants a look.
Debian Sarge focuses on easy installation
Debian developers have completely rewritten the Debian installer for the next version of the Linux distribution, code-named Sarge. The update, due around the New Year, is the first major release of Debian since July 2002 when the current version, Woody, was released.
Describe Your Ideal "Into to Open Source" Presentation
OSDir has begun a weekly discussion topic forum where this week's topic of conversation is Discribe Your Ideal "Open Source" Presentation: "...I think there may be good reason for a few, on topic, open source presentations that advocates around the world could use to do a good & interesting presentation that hits the major points depending on who the audience is. So, if there were going to be such a thing.. what would you include, not include, do, not do, etc etc?"
Red Hat opens office in China
Red Hat on Thursday announced the opening of its first office in China, in the nation's capital, Beijing.
World's first open source television programme
The South Africa-based Go Open Source campaign is filming the world's first television series dedicated to open source software. The 13-episode Go_Open will air on SABC 2 every Saturday at 17:30 from November 20.
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Gets 1,000,000 Downloads on First Day
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 appears to have been downloaded over one million times on the day of its release, based on preliminary data.
Crackers and honey: An irresistible combination for network security
Denial of service (DoS) attacks aim to take down Web servers and other Internet resources, often by swarming them with repeated requests, which knocks them out. LaBrea is honeypot software that cooks up a fake machine with virtual ports with virtual vulnerabilities for a cracker to play with.
Tux Paint 0.9.14 released
New Breed Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Tux Paint 0.9.14, the first major release this year of the highly acclaimed children’s art software. Over the past nine months, steady progress has been made to improve Tux Paint and implement features requested by teachers and parents.
Navy Uses Open-Source-Like Environment To Improve Weather Forecasting And Mapping
SourceForge Enterprise Edition lets scientists and developers at the Navy's weather center collaborate within the safety of a firewall.
Red Hat goes to China
Red Hat is expanding in China, opening its first office in the world's most populous country to tap growing demand for the computer software that it sells. The Raleigh company, the biggest distributor of the Linux operating system, plans today to announce the facility in Beijing. It will initially focus on sales and education efforts.
Aussies checkout open source
More Aussie companies are getting advice about the use of open source software in mission-critical areas of their operations. According to a leading brief at Phillips Fox the number of inquiries his outfit is getting on Open Source is better than it has ever been.
Novell CTO on hot Linux apps and closing gaps
The age of Linux maturity has begun, and the days of waiting for enterprise applications will soon be over, says Alan Nugent, chief technology officer and senior vice president, Novell Inc. of Waltham, Mass. He covers the enterprise Linux application territory, from what's missing to what's hot, in this interview.
Why malware parasites are starting to draw Linux blood
When a parasite is faced with a change in environment, it too will change or perish. While Microsoft Windows is the platform of choice for viruses and other malware, parasite writers are starting to smell fresh blood elsewhere. Numerous metrics indicate that Linux is charging full speed into the desktop market. According to an IDC report, businesses and government departments will spend $98 million on services to support their Linux systems in 2004. By 2008, the figure is predicted to increase to $228 million.
Let us salute the Linux localisers
Linux distributions for the consumer desktop may be imperfect; but Indian developers have already created some compelling applications, especially in local languages.
Installing Gnome 2.8 on SuSE 9.1
Having chosen Suse 9.1 Personal as my choice of Linux distribution, I was satisfied with KDE, but curious (and rebellious) to try to install Gnome 2.8, no matter what. After success, I wrote an article on how it was done.
Alan Nugent: Insight from Novell's CTO
In this interview by Preston St. Pierre, Alan Nugent, Novell's CTO, speaks on behalf of Novell on their Linux strategy. Innovation is on the way at Novell, with a next-generation desktop in the plans. Internally, the Linux migration is on schedule, and the staff are wholly in favor of moving away from Windows.
Fedora Core 3 Tries Out Latest SELinux
This week saw the latest release of Red Hat's community-based Linux distribution, Fedora Core 3. While not a business release—and indeed Fedora has no official support from Red Hat Inc.—Fedora serves as a proving ground for ideas that may eventually make their way into RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
Build your own search engine with ht://Dig
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.
Interview with NVIDIA Engineers
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.
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