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The latest in the series of public sector open source trials will begin next month, with local government users keen to adopt the technology.

Red Hat and Wind River Partner to Develop Linux Based Solution for Device Software Optimization Wind River Systems and Red Hat; Industry leaders partner to jointly develop a new Linux distribution; Alliance extends market opportunities; Red Hat Embedded Linux with Wind River will enable device software optimization

You might think that working on the command line means you are sentenced to a desktop without graphics or digital images. But that's wrong thinking. You may also be surprised to learn that some popular GUI applications for image processing can also be used from the CLI. Today we'll take a look at three tools for capturing, displaying, and massaging images from the CLI. They are all (import, display, and mogrify) part of ImageMagick.

One of the guys in the office kept saying "Debian is the way to go", and that's the way we went. I think Debian's becoming the only solution.

Another blow for Microsoft: on the heels of a free alternative to its Office software, a no-charge alternative operating system to Windows is now flooding the country. Knoppix, a Hebrew operating system requiring no installation, is the first real threat to the Microsoft monopoly in Israel.

It's not a new O'Reilly and Associates book, but it *is*, perhaps, the most concise and unbiased synopsis of this whole SCO/IBM/Novell/Linux debacle.

A series of interesting professional and personal questions are asked of this QT developer. [ Thanks to KDE Dot News for the link. ]

Who would have thought that in the seemingly techie world of computer software, there exists a movement, akin to the free speech movement in the 1960s, called the free software movement or the open source movement.

Epcom Corporation, a leader in educational and consulting services, today announced the release of its web based eLearning module "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 System Administration".

...a growing number of governments, universities and companies have turned to open source programs. These include the Linux operating system; Open Office, a free rival to Microsoft Office, and the Mozilla internet browser.

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the mailman package.

During an audit, Ulf Harnhammar discovered a vulnerability in synaesthesia, a program which represents sounds visually. synaesthesia created its configuration file while holding root privileges, allowing a local user to create files owned by root and writable by the user's primary group. This type of vulnerability can usually be easily exploited to execute arbitary code with root privileges by various means.

During an audit, Ulf Harnhammar discovered a vulnerability in lbreakout2, a game, where proper bounds checking was not performed on environment variables. This bug could be exploited by a local attacker to gain the privileges of group "games".

eWeek reviews live Linux distributions, including Knoppix, Gentoo LiveCD and others.

Stronger financial position will help JBoss compete with IBM and BEA in application-server market.

The legal maneuvering between The SCO Group Inc. and IBM took a new twist as IBM on Thursday gave the green light for SCO to amend its complaint, dropping its trade secret claims and replacing them with copyright violations.

The SCO Group's self-imposed 90-day deadline to sue an end user for not paying its Linux tax has come and gone. "You can bet your bottom dollar," writes veteran industry commentator Maureen O'Gara, "that SCO didn't want to do anything to set the magistrate's teeth on edge before she decides whether SCO has given IBM enough proof that it's got a case and decides whether or not IBM should turn over all its various versions of AIX and Dynix to SCO, which claims that's where most of the evidence resides."

Microsoft recently sent out half a million free copies of Microsoft Office, some of which were sent to members of the United States Air Force. Staff Sgt. C. Todd Lopez has informed members of the Air Force that they are obligated to return the software without using it, because of military regulations prohibiting the acceptance of gifts from those with which they do business. Interesting!

Microsoft's legal entanglement with Lindows.com turns focus on possibilities of desktop Linux; Novell and Sun best positioned in enterprise market, says analyst; server Linux penetration could mean opportunity on desktop side.

Skolelinux is an ambitious project that aims to provide schools with a flexible and low-cost IT solution based on Linux and KDE. I interviewed Bart Cornelis (Belgian), Kurt Gramlich (German), Conrad Newton (American) and Knut Yrvin (Norwegian) to learn more about Skolelinux and the role that KDE plays in it.