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Red Hat, the leading provider of Open Source and Linux software worldwide, has opened a sales and support office in Kolkata. This office will serve as the eastern regional hub to address the growing demand for Red Hat products and services in eastern India. Red Hat will now be able provide its complete range of products and services to potential customers in Government, enterprise and education segments in the eastern states. In addition, the new office will also provide support to existing customer implementations.

Andrea Arcangeli presented a "secure computing" patch for the 2.6.7 stable Linux kernel, asking people to review it and to look for holes. Evidently referring to the as-of-yet veiled CPUShare, Andrea explains, "I need this new kernel feature for a spare time research project I'm developing [on] the weekends," which at first glance looks to be a cooperative clustering solution.

I got mad as heck when Kenneth Brown, president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, claimed that Linus Torvalds stole Linux from Minix. So I told the world the truth: I wrote Linux. Now, I'm getting so many e-mails from bogus Linux inventors that I think I'm going to create a Linux Liar's Club (LLC). What? Oh yeah, some guys in Utah beat me to it.

Based on new research, source code analysis has been used to find thousands of bugs in the Linux 2.6.x kernel. Here's how the technology works, what it can find, and why coding may never be the same again.

As enterprise systems evolve from concept to code, an otherwise clean design can become downright, well, messy, as the practical plumbing of logging, caching, transactions, and more infiltrates modules. Wouldn't it be better if, say, logging were just another module? Enter aspect-oriented programming.

As your networks grow, you'll want ways to segregate and manage them. Cisco routers are staples for this purpose, but Linux, together with GNU Zebra, can make a good substitute. Here's how to get up and running with Zebra.

The Elephant (Finally) Dances

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Writing Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Code

Personal Version Control

SANE Network Scanning

This article is about how to (technically) write programs that change their userid in C and in C++ . Fairly good introduction.

Embedding Python in C Applications

List Manipulation

Finding Rootkits, Infections, and Files

Time for the Linux Desktop

When was the last time you took a look at KOffice, KDE's native office suite? This article looks at the good, and the bad, in the latest version of the 1.3 series. Although OpenOffice.org grabs most of the limelight KOffice has been steadily improving, with a low memory footprint and tight integration with Konqueror you might find useful.

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 3.4.1, officially released on July 1st. Mark explains, "there are no new features in this release, but there are a lot of improvements for various languages and architectures." This first maintenance release follows GCC 3.4.0 by a little over two months, as seen on the official release timeline.