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Finnish software maker Lineox recently released another update to their Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux. The distribution now contains over 376 updated or new packages, or almost half the contents in the just 5 months since its debut. A new version is released each time Red Hat releases a bug or security fix package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 or new features are added Lineox's software.

Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog has slapped a warning on Microsoft, demanding that the US software giant remove what it said was a restrictive clause from contracts with computer makers. Microsoft issued a statement within hours of the warning, saying it would contest the decision.

Mandrake has announced the availability of a new update service for users. Mandrakeonline offers services to cost effectively keep software updated on systems running Mandrakelinux.

Opponents of open-source software applauded a recent memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget that they claim puts proprietary software on competitive footing with open-source software in federal procurements.

Apache, FreeBSD Sendmail are lesser known. The share of the market they have will surprise you

THE PEOPLE at Zend Technologies quietly announced last week the availability of the long awaited PHP version 5. The rise of PHP - the open source, server-side web programming language that took the Net by storm starting in 1998 with its 3.0 release, seems to be unstoppable, if one believes the usage charts at php.net.

Linux vendor Linspire Inc. has released PhoneGaim, a free software program that adds voice-over-IP functionality to the Linux-based Gaim instant messaging client.

I have spent the past week (5-11 July) at the Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (Libre Software Meeting) in Bordeaux. I attended the Free Software Printing Summit which was one of the topics at the conference, and this message is a short report of the proceedings. I was there representing both Gimp-Print and Debian. What we worked on will have an impact on the Debian printing infrastructure in the medium to long term, and this will affect a potentially large number of printing packages. I hope this is found to be informative. Please send any followups to debian-devel.

Microsoft has removed the free software downloads from Lookout's Web site, a day after it announced it bought the Silicon Valley startup. Before it was acquired by Microsoft, Lookout offered critically acclaimed free software that quickly searched files within Microsoft's Outlook e-mail system.

Peder Ulander, the top marketing executive for Sun Microsystems' Desktop Solutions Group, is leaving the company to join embedded Linux specialist MontaVista Software, CNET News.com has learned.

A group of former Red Hat employees have formed a start-up called Specifix that aims to lure customers who have customized software needs that the more established Linux company couldn't accommodate.

SAN FRANCISCO - Underlining the enterprise capabilities of its free, open source JBoss Application Server, JBoss Inc. on Monday plans to announce J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) certification for the product.

I haven't used Windows very often in the past seven or eight years. I declared my independence on July 4, 1998, and I've never looked back. Recently I was issued a company laptop. It came with Windows XP preinstalled, of course, since it is an IBM ThinkPad and only Microsoft operating systems are available preloaded on IBM (and HP, and Dell) desktops and laptops destined for North American consumers. I decided for various reasons to make the ThinkPad a dual-boot machine. Color me surprised at what I've learned about the Windows platform since. Who knew there is so much free -- as in speech -- software available for Windows these days?

LinuxSecurity.com editors have a seat with Dave Wreski, CEO of Guardian Digital, Inc. and respected author of various hardened security and Linux publications, to talk about how Guardian Digital is changing the face of IT security today.

Behavioral scientists will tell you that in the animal kingdom -- which includes Homo sapiens -- truly altruistic behavior is extremely rare, if it exists at all. Yet even behavior motivated by self-interest can work for the public good. There’s a cadre of historians who believes that the framers of the U.S. Constitution wrote it to protect their own landed interests, for example, yet few would deny that it worked out pretty well for the rest of us.

Open source database vendor MySQL AB is floating a new license exception among members of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community in a bid to permit bundling of MySQL alongside PHP. In the view of at least one prominent member of the community though, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), backer of the GPL license that is at the root of the controversy, really doesn't represent the needs or opinion of the core base of PHP, the popular open source scripting language.

gclinux (Ricardo Wagemaker) has written an excellent howto so that you can install Project Looking Glass on JDS.