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Linus Torvalds: ''Desktop Market has already started''
Linus Torvalds tells of some other programming venues than the Linux kernel, predicts a shadowy outcome for GNU/Hurd, gives some advice to anyone wanting to undertake a large software project and updates us on the latest in kernel development in this email interview by Preston St. Pierre.
Firefox aims for 10 percent of Web surfers
Maybe the browser wars really are back. Bart Decrem, the marketing contact for the Mozilla Foundation, told ZDNet UK on Friday that he expects the browser's market share to reach 10 percent by the end of 2005. "I think we'll get to 10 percent over the next year. We don't have 10 percent of the Web at the moment, but we have the momentum," claimed Decrem.
Scalix Linux messaging platform adds support for Mozilla and Firefox
Linux messaging software vendor Scalix today announced a new version of their enterprise email and calendaring platform. Scalix 9.1 adds support for the Mozilla 1.7 browser, Firefox Preview Release and the Thunderbird email application
Report: Hang Time for Kernel Real Time
Earlier this month, MontaVista released a proposal to incorporate real-time processing directly in the Linux kernel. The proposal has been met with a decidedly mixed reception, even though MontaVista could stand to lose some business if it goes through.
Linux kernel flaw allows DoS attack
A bug in version 2.6 of the Linux kernel allows remote users to crash systems running SuSE's latest enterprise and consumer software
Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 beta 1
The Trustix Team is proud to announce Trustix Secure Linux 2.1.50 nicknamed Wonderboy. It is the first beta for the upcoming 2.2 release.
POI - Java access to Microsoft Office-format files
POI is an Apache Foundation project designed to let programmers access Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document Format from a Java environment. OLE 2 format is quite ubiquitous since it's the one used in Microsoft Office files. In the following article we will be exploring the various components available in POI for accessing these documents through Java.
Linux Solution Firms Team Up In Groups For Market Leadership
Boosted by growing demand for open source software, domestic [Korean] Linux program companies are gearing up for development of Linux operating systems in groups to take leading position in the market.
GForge 4.0 Released
Ever wanted your own personal SourceForge? If so, then be sure to check out GForge which just released version 4.0. GForge is a fork of the original GPL'd SourceForge code and like sf.net provides forums, mailing lists, revision control via CVS or Subversion (yes, Subversion!), issue trackers and much more for any number of teams and projects.
Buy Linux PCs, then steal Windows
New personal computers with the free Linux operating system are often used with pirated copies of the Microsoft Windows operating system, reports a study by the US-based marketing research firm Gartner.
Linux kernel flaw found
Users of Linux running a 2.6 series kernel and using iptables for firewalling have been advised to upgrade to fix a bug which could be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service.
Email security firms fight it out for leadership
The scramble for market share in the email security appliance space is frantic, as the increasingly lucrative market teeters on the verge of consolidation.
Aurox Linux 10.0.1 Beta Reviewed!
Another lesser-know distro trying to make a splash on the big scene. Aurox Linux is a Fedora-based distro mainly developed in Poland. Even in its tenth release cycle, it is still a young distro and as such: small. Could it be the next big thing? Even gentoo was small and "lesser-known" once. Check out this review, hot off the presses at LinuxForumsDOTorg.
A week in the BSD CLI
I've always been comfortable using the command line interface to get specific tasks done. To me, the command line was a necessary tool as well as a last resort -- if all else failed, I knew I could count on a command line program to fix the problem. I already knew that I could do pretty much anything from the command line if I was willing to sit down, read manual pages, and learn -- or if I really had to. To prove it, recently I forced myself to use only the CLI for a week. I ended up learning a lot more than just a few command line arguments.
Linux-powered device brings legal music sharing to MIT
Two MIT students relaunched MIT's believed-legal music sharing network today, using a Linux-based consumer audio device that also launches today as a commercial product. The "Library Access to Music Project" (LAMP) system was first launched a year ago, but shut down after its content supplier encountered legal hurdles. The re-incarnated LAMP is based on StreetFire Sound's RBX1600, which network-enables multiple inexpensive consumer audio jukeboxes.
MPG Adds Linux/AIX to Capacity Planning Mix
Midrange Performance Group, maker of performance-management and capacity-planning software for the iSeries, is branching out into the world of AIX. The company is set to launch Power Navigator, a sibling to the iSeries' Performance Navigator, for capacity planning for AIX and Linux.
Linux Australia to hold forum on patents
Linux Australia, the umbrella organisation for Linux user groups in the country, will hold an open source forum on November 3 focusing on the issue of software patents.
Gentoo Weekly Newsletter 25 October 2004
Plenty of good news this week, ranging from the release of Portage 2.0.51 via the web contest winner and documentation updates to a reminder of the Gentoo presence at the upcoming German LWE. This week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter also contains a request for help from the Haskell team, an announcement of the first Gentoo user meeting in Cambridge, UK, and the regular services with community and press coverage, tips and tricks centered around the new Portage release, bugzilla statistics, and three new developers to welcome on the Gentoo team.
Red Hat security phishing scam
Red Hat has been made aware that emails are circulating that pretend to come from the Red Hat Security Team. These emails tell users to download and run an update from a users home directory. This fake update appears to contain malicious code. Official messages from the Red Hat security team are never sent unsolicited, are always sent from the address secalert@redhat.com, and are digitally signed by GPG. All official updates for Red Hat products are digitally signed and should not be installed unless they are correctly signed and the signature is verified. For more details see http://www.redhat.com/security/team/key.html.
Geolocation by IP Address
Determining geographic locations based on Internet IP offers localization services and brings together user communities without the need for GPS receivers or complicated configuration switching.
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