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A German court has granted an injunction for an infringement of general public licence (GPL) software. Munich District Court granted the preliminary injunction against Sitecom Germany, in response to a request from the netfilter/iptables project.

The purpose of this article is to give a novice programmer the basic idea of what OOP is, as implemented using PHP. Readers should have a basic knowledge of programming ie what variables are, variable types, basic methods of writing comments, and how to enter code into a text editor.

Broadband and storage chip specialist Marvell has teamed up with network security chip vendor Cavium Networks on a hardware reference design for enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) switches based on embedded Linux. The design boasts high performance security and centralized management features.

In the first article in this series we began looking at ways to secure a new Linux server, starting with locking down services. Next, let's look at securing files and monitoring system logs.

I didn't feel the need for a better browser, until I found myself using one. Now I even feel grateful. I can also tell the same story about Mozilla Thunderbird. I've converted. It is better than Outlook - for my purposes at least. It has all the features that matter, you can convert data (address book and mail) from Outlook in about 1 hour and it stops spam. (Not all of it so far, but most of it.)

Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Distributing firmware blobs in the Linux kernel is still discussed controversially and probably will be for quite a while. Joshua Kwan reported about progress with the installer on the Sparc architecture. Manoj Srivastava also has called for votes on the general resolution to add editorial changes to the social contract a second time.

Researchers at Mount Allison University are working to better understand how human DNA is damaged and what drugs can be used to repair it, using a powerful IBM Linux supercomputing cluster. The research will reduce the time it takes to develop drug treatments for diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. The 84-node, dual processor cluster of IBM eServer xSeries running Linux...

2004 winners announced at lavish ceremony in London

ImaGen Offers Affordable, High-Performance, COTS Image Generation Solutions for Training System Applications

The open-source software movement will revitalise commercial software rather than undermine it, says Novell Open source will force software vendors to create better products, but will not be its downfall, according to Novell.

I get asked this question at least once a week: "How do I get my open source project onto your radar screen?" The question is often accompanied by a lament about how such-and-such project gets endless press while the questioner's equally valuable one gets ignored. Public relations is where volunteer-run open source projects usually fall down hardest, even worse than documentation, so here's a little primer on how to get the media to write nice things about what you're doing. There will be an IRC discussion about promoting your open source project Saturday, April 24, at 2000 UTC. IRC server = events.oftc.net, #promo.

This vision of IBM is riding on Linux, the open-source operating system created by Linus Torvalds, which is slowly becoming a global movement. Using Linux, IBM is posing stiff competition to Microsoft in the sale of hardware and software to enterprise customers. Recent surveys by leading research outfits such as Forrester or Yankee group show that Global 1000 companies are beginning to experiment with Linux or have plans to do so in the near future. This is a movement that is catching on, with Oracle, Intel, BEA Systems also supporting its growth.

Microsoft has hired one of its worst enemies, the SuSE Linux salesman whose efforts led the city of Munich to adopt Linux and open-source software instead of Microsoft's products. Karl Aigner, formerly SuSE's account representative for Munich, is overseeing sales of Microsoft's data center products to midsize companies in Germany. He began his new role April 1, Microsoft said Tuesday.

To say that the City of Bloomington, Ind.'s RISC-based HP-UX servers and workstations were showing their age would have been an understatement. After eight years of running homegrown and commercial Oracle applications for the city's 22 departments, performance had degraded to unbearable levels as CPU and memory utilization maxed out on a daily basis.