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By carefully taking into account the nature of the products and services being provided by the organization, the revenue models for providing those products and services, and the culture of the organization's developers and programmers, you can develop an open-source policy that meets the unique needs of your organization.

This latest release from the 1.4 branch features only bug fixes (no new features) and will be mainly of interest to developers building products from the stable branch. Most end-users will want Mozilla 1.6 or the upcoming Mozilla 1.7.

What an exciting KDE summer! Release dude Coolo is planning the KDE 3.3 release for just 3 days before "aKademy" starts: The release plan was published on Saturday for discussion! Developers should make sure to get the stuff listed they plan to have ready for 3.3 in the planned-features document as soon as possible. KDE 3.3 Alpha is prepared around May 23rd and June 1st will see the first freeze (excluding outstanding listed features and i18n strings) kicking in.

Astaro Corp. today announced availability of Version 5 of its Astaro Security Linux, which now includes Intrusion Protection and added Virus Protection for HTTP and http://FTP...Available immediately from Astaro solution partners, licenses start at $390 for 10 users.

The University of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design Institute Open Source conference opened Sunday with a three-hour session on Free and Open Source Software as a social movement with Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Project leading it off.

Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet--and it was built by a company with about as many employees as a real estate office.

You see it in headlines. It's quoted in the wires like some monotheistic Mel Gibson filled with religious fervor. But where is The Linux Community? Alive and well in forum-based community Web sites.

For Linux to become a real competitor to Windows on the desktop, Linux distributors must refine their software installation and management systems. There are some loose ends that need to be tied up and some tricky legal knots to unravel.

With a stream of Linux based desktop alternatives flooding the market, the battle against software giant Microsoft has reached higher ground. The latest entrant, a company called Everyone’s Linux (ELX), is all set to launch its product range in India, with a radically different mantra - “If you cant beat them with innovation, ape them.”

After a week of absence The People Behind KDE travels all the way to beautiful Curitida in Brazil to have a chat with one of KDE's most active developers. This guy is active on many fronts within KDE, his latest addition is the adoption of KDE by the Brazilian government and he doesn't stop there! Read all about Connectiva's Helio Chissini de Castro!

Enterprise Email and Small Business Solutions Impress at Linux Exposition. Internet and network security was a consistent theme and Guardian Digital was on hand with innovative solutions to the most common security issues. Attending to the growing concern for cost-effective security, Guardian Digital's enterprise and small business applications were stand-out successes.

African software developers face many obstacles as they struggle to grow professionally in their chosen field. But these "coders", as a group, form a community marked less by their frustration and isolation than by their perseverance and resolve. This theme dominated AfricaSource, a workshop held in Namibia in March, 2004. The meeting of 40 developers from 25 countries in the small town of Okahandja was the first chance many of the coders have had to collaborate and compare notes.

BEA Systems Inc has dismissed the challenge posed to its application server business by open source alternatives such as JBoss Inc, rejecting the idea that the market is becoming commoditized. "We don't see that happening," said Jim Rivera, senior principal technologist for the San Jose, California-based software firm.

Fourth in Series of White Papers on the Risks Posed by the Use of Linux in U.S. Defense Systems. Dan O'Dowd, Green Hills Software founder and CEO, today issued his fourth white paper on the risks posed by the use of the Linux operating system in U.S. defense systems, "Linux in Defense: Free Software is Just Too Expensive."

DireqLearn, developers of the OpenLab Linux thin-client solution, today announced the release of a community edition of their software. "The Free and Open-Source Software communities gave us the tools we use. This is our gift back to them, the results of using those tools," says A.J. Venter, lead developer on the OpenLab project.

"Poor countries don't have the money to buy and maintain Windows; this is where open source software is becoming a real and powerful alternative," he said. More developed countries also use Linux: Miguel mentioned the 200,000 Debian machines in Spain running Gnome and many other smaller projects using Linux and OSS at many levels: schools, government applications, servers, even on home desktops. And long as EU won't adopt similar patent laws like US currently employees, Miguel sees Linux (and F/OSS in general) becoming a major power in the industry, competing head to head with Microsoft in a few years. "Even the Linux desktop is almost usable today", he said semi-joking and continued "if the whole world is using Linux in the future, US will have to 'switch' eventually too, regardless of patent problems. And when that happens, there's no stopping".

The purpose of a Linux distribution is to deliver a Linux-based operating environment with a useful set of applications in a single, well-integrated package. Two of the best such distributors, MandrakeSoft S.A. and Novell Inc.'s SuSE Linux division, recently shipped new versions of their respective mainstream Linux distributions, both based on the new Linux 2.6 kernel.