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Does open source software enhance security?
There are advantages to openness, though not the one most often cited. Open source developers have got to be more careful and security-conscious than their closed-source counterparts. This encourages a better product overall.
Mandrake energised for drive toward global Linux adoption
Mandrakelinux 10.0, says Francois Bancilhon, CEO of Mandrakesoft, "marks the beginning of a re-energised drive by Mandrakesoft to achieve worldwide Linux adoption." ... Fighting talk.
Fedora Legacy alert: Updated util-linux resolves security vulnerability
Updated util-linux packages that fix an information leak in the login program are now available.
Linux convert Wind River gets stock jump
Wind River System Inc.'s rapid conversion from a Linux detractor to Linux lover, culminated this week with a partnership between the Alameda embedded software vendor and leading Linux distributor Red Hat Inc.
ABOUT FREE SOFTWARE - Some Economic Aspects
Berlin economist, Dr. Gregory Rimini, offers some interesting insights into the phenomenon of FOSS. The perspective is that of someone with first hand experience living under Communism.
Leaked SCO 'Halloween' Memo is real
Blake Stowell, SCO's director of communications, acknowledged that the 'Halloween X' memo from Wednesday is real. The memo showed that Microsoft was behind Baystar's $50 million investment and thus put $86 million into SCO.
Linux surging in telecom, industrial automation, survey says
Venture Development Corporation (VDC) has released summary findings from studies examining the use of commercial operating systems and development tools in the telecommunications and industrial automation markets. The reports find Linux "making inroads" in telecom, and "expected to increase rapidly" in industrial automation.
Cross-platform GUI tools available for Familiar Linux, GPE
Dr. Robert Roebling of the wxEmbedded project reports progress toward bringing wxWidgets to Familiar, a Linux distribution mainly for the HP/Compaq iPAQ PDA. wxWidgets, formerly wxWindows, is an open source framework for multi-platform user interface development that relies on each platform's native widget set, preserving a native look and feel.
Is Linux Kernel 2.6 Primed for the Enterprise?
Linux Kernel 2.6 has been in stable release for months now, which is like dog's years in kernel time. Kernel releases are exciting times for Linux geeks, because it's just plain fun to be able to replace the kernel on a system, or have several different kernels installed, and choose among them as the whim strikes. Oh yes, you want to gain improved performance and functionality, too.
Interview: OSDL chief seeks business Linux takers
VNUNet interviews Stuart Cohen, the chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs.
Macromedia to test Linux support
Macromedia will begin experimenting with Linux support, releasing versions of its development tools that work with the open-source operating system, a company executive said on Thursday.
[Finland] GNU/Linux Summit was a success
...event attracted a record number of visitors to the Finlandia Hall last week on Thursday and Friday 26-27.2.2004. All together 560 visitors participated in the seminar and lectures.
Jboss' Fleury seeking for-profit open source incubator
Last week, JBoss, Inc. received $10 million in venture funding in a group led by Matrix Partners. But what does JBoss founder Marc Fleury want to do with all that money? Is there any chance that VC investment can water down the open source movement?
What to watch out for when writing portable shell scripts
Shell scripts are a popular choice for writing small programs that do file manipulation. They are generally portable across platforms, but there are a number of things that can make a shell script work fine on one machine and fail on another. This article reviews some of the issues shell programmers may run into when trying to write widely portable scripts.
Eclipse Fills Board with Open Source Directors
Open source consortium Eclipse Foundation Wednesday rounded out its 12-member board of directors with four new members. The appointments put the finishing touches on a reorganization that began several months ago in an effort to bring the group closer to end users.
Mandrake Linux 'community' 10.0 released
Mandrakesoft is proud to announce that its new flagship operating system 'Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community' has been released. 10.0 Community is the first major Linux distribution to take advantage of the new Linux kernel 2.6 while providing one of the most easy to use and attractive Linux operating systems ever.
Eclipse Foundation finalizes BOD
The newly formed not-for-profit Eclipse Foundation has filled the final four spots on its board of directors (BOD). The Foundation's founding boardmembers now include representatives of IBM (2 board members), Genuitec, SAS, University of Washington, Ericsson, HP, Intel, MontaVista, QNX, SAS, and Serena Software.
Swapping Red Hat for a Fedora
From personal experience, I think it’s safe to say that the community backing Fedora is great and as helpful, if not more so, than Red Hat.
Interview with NetBSD's Luke Mewburn
The NetBSD Project announced Monday that release 1.6.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available, with binary distributions for 40 architectures. We interviewed Luke Mewburn of the NetBSD Core Group and asked him about the NetBSD project in general, the long awaiting release 2.0, and a lot of technical and organizational issues.
Peoplesoft Supports Linux
PeopleSoft has announced that it is supporting the Red Hat flavor of the Linux operating system for use with PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne applications including financials, human capital management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and supplier relationship management (SRM).
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