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SAN FRANCISCO -- In 2003, much of the talk at LinuxWorld Expo& Conference was of the increasing worry about IP litigation involving Linux and Unix, especially emanating from Lindon, Utah, via The SCO Group. SCO had filed a $5 billion lawsuit the previous March against IBM, contending that Big Blue had knowingly misused and distributed SCO's Unix System V code within its AIX operating system. A lot of not-very-nice words were used last year to describe the litigation that SCO was initiating. This year, things were different; the name "SCO" was seldom heard.

Lindows, the Linux desktop software company changing its name to Linspire, lowered on Friday the expected value of its initial public offering.

Linare Corporation announced a professional version of the Linux desktop this week for corporate and government users.The company is offering a free evaluation copy throughout August.

Linux® and IBM POWER™-based processors combine to offer a solid platform for a huge range of applications and services, limited only by the needs of business and the imagination of developers. As one of the most widely ported operating systems in existence, Linux is equally comfortable on the desktop and in the data center, running on everything from game consoles to mainframes. POWER-based processors -- PowerPC®, POWER4™, and POWER5™ -- provide the heartbeat for an equally wide range of devices, delivering reliable, scalable performance.

As Google prepares for its initial public offering, the company seems to be more popular on the Net's back streets than on Wall Street.

The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco this week put the spotlight on a growing opportunity for enterprise customers: the ability to integrate open source software into existing IT architectures from the data center to the desktop.

Debian is one of the fastest growing distributions of GNU/Linux, thanks in part to its Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). However, Debian is difficult to install for many new users. While many commercial projects such as Red Hat and Mandrake offer advanced hardware autoconfiguration, Debian relies on a user's knowledge of the underlying hardware. Enter Kanotix -- a bootable GNU/Linux distribution based on Klaus Knopper's Knoppix that uses mostly fresh Debian sid packages.

Google hacks are for real, regardless of what some uber-hackers may think or say. They can produce passwords, user IDs, credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, bank account numbers and routing codes, and more. They can also be used to troll for vulnerabilities. One quick example: using one of the simplest Google advanced operators in combination with another operator, I quickly found a number of Microsoft IIS 6.0 Authentication Manager pages exposed to the Internet on Army, Navy, state, and federal agency sites. In fact, finding the sites proved to be much easier than alerting them to the vulnerability.

A prediction that both IBM DB2 and Oracle databases would head toward open source in some way by the end of the year got a little more interesting as Big Blue announced a partnership with the Apache Software Foundation to release its Cloudscape Java-based database to the community, which is turning the database into an open source project called Derby.

the Wintel trade press is waiting to get their slice of the desktop Linux vendors' marketing dollars before they'll connect the dots and recognize the value of thin clients.

A look at the movement to convert Indian's voter lists to Unicode.

A new issue of the series "Application of the Month" has been released. It covers Konversation and interviews its maintainer Dario Abatianni. Konversation is a user friendly IRC client for KDE. You can read it in Dutch, English and German.

SAN FRANCISCO--A test version of UserLinux, a product intended to give corporate customers the utility of Red Hat Linux but not its price tag, is set for release at the start of September.

LINUXWORLD -- Even though LinuxWorld Expo (LWE) has morphed from hacker/swag heaven to dealmakers' paradise over the last few years, there is still a dot.org pavilion in the back of the exhibit hall where you'll find the non-profit groups that are the true heart of all this. Today we take you to several of those humble booths.

SAN FRANCISCO--Thin is in again, at least for a spell, as hardware makers use Linux to sell companies on the idea of forsaking full-fledged PCs in favor of stripped-down "thin clients."

Two weeks back was the Linux Kernel Developers Summit.The Kernel Summit is a two day, developer-to-developer, invite-only conferencewhere the kernel hackers sit down and talk about our feelings. It is not,unfortunately, a hack fest. Instead, the big arguments too heated or otherwiseinvolved for the mailing lists are discussed. An attempt is made to reachconsensus on the future direction of the kernel. A cabal at its best.

The French internal revenue service announced on Thursday that it has chosen JBoss's open-source application server to run the next version of its tax applications.