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Japan, China and South Korea will meet to consider standardising ways to use the Linux operating system as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows. A meeting of senior officials from the three East Asian countries will be held in Beijing on Saturday on policies related to information technologies, an official at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said.

Two years ago, when Rick Carey was chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, he was crazy about Linux and especially about Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor. At the time, he was leading the charge to migrate all of the computer systems at Merrill to Linux. But these days, things have changed. Carey, who is now chief technology architect at Bank One, says that although he still likes Linux, he's not rushing into any deployments of the open-source operating system. Chicago-based Bank One has run some Linux pilot programs, but it is not planning any big roll-outs, Carey says.

Thales Group used MontaVista Linux to minimize hardware resources and maximize functionality in its new parking lot fare collection system, it says. The "Largo WiLi" system has operated successfully at Paris Orly airport since May 2003, and at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport since November 2003.

Sun Microsystems at its quarterly "software summit" Tuesday announced that the beta version of Java Studio Creator, its drag-and-drop, rapid application development platform, is now available for download, with general access for the final build scheduled for sometime in June.

Open Source Risk Management, a company hoping to profit from intensifying legal scrutiny of Linux and other open-source programs, will take a first step in its plan with a $495 seminar series, the company said Wednesday.

Wind River was named the overall Best of Show winner at the 2004 Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) for its full-scale replica of the VxWorks-based Mars Rover. Category winners were also announced for six device categories.

ith a graphical user interface (GUI). This update fixes several vulnerabilities[2] in Ethereal.

This update fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability[1,2] in the URI parsing code of the nanoftp and nanohttp modules of libxml2.

IBM computer microprocessors are going open source. Big Blue now wants companies and developers to actively participate in the design of IBM's Power microchips, and is encouraging researchers, chip fabricators and electrical engineers to customize Power chips for use in specialized systems or devices.

OpenSSL[1] implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as full-strength general purpose cryptography functions. It's used (as a library) by several projects, like Apache, OpenSSH, Bind, OpenLDAP and many others clients and servers programs.

Open-source database vendor MySQL recently initiated some restrictions on the bundling of MySQL libraries with the PHP scripting language. Some observers criticized the restrictions as an example of the fragility of open-source technology, suggesting that the limitations could break the easy-deployment model of LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP). As it turns out, their fears were unwarranted.

Red Hat Inc. took the first step this week toward the inclusion of Security Enhanced Linux in its enterprise offerings when it released Fedora Core 2, test2.

Midnight Commander (MC) is a visual shell and a file manager for text consoles.

LynuxWorks and IBM Driving Linux 2.6 and 64-bit Development in Wide Range of Deeply Embedded Computing Environments

LWN reader Geert Jan van Oldenborgh recently encountered TryOutLinux.com by way of a Google ad. This site, which looks like a another Linux information site, has no affiliation listed on it; it claims copyright in the name of TryOutLinux.com. The ad leads to the "Which Linux is Best?" page, which concludes: "We Recommend LindowsOS for Most Desktop Users and Red Hat or SuSE for File Servers" (caps in the original). So it, perhaps, won't be surprising that the whois information for TryOutLinux.com lists Lindows.com as the registrant.

The GNOME project is expected to release version 2.6 of its open source Linux desktop Wednesday, which supporters call a major step forward in offering choice among desktop players.

PowerPC® processors are found in everything from supercomputers to game consoles and from servers to cell phones -- and they all share a common architecture. This introduction to the PowerPC application-level programming model will give you an overview of the instruction set, important registers, and other details necessary for developing reliable, high performing PowerPC applications and maintaining code compatibility among processors.

A denial of service and a buffer overflow vulnerability have been found in Monit.

The Beaverton-based lab pushes for wider use of the software, according to the group's chief executive

A guide for when and how to use styles instead of manual overrides in OpenOffice.org documents.