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How will governments and large enterprises get their heads around the concept of open source software?

The latest Mozilla update, covering the releases of Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.5, and other news, is available for your perusal.

With Linux appearing more frequently in the press and on TV, people are becoming more curious about it. They are still reluctant to leave their comfortable Windows world, but they are curious. Enter LiveCD Linux -- a CD with a full Linux operating system that runs completely from the CD without the need to install anything on the hard drive. Taking ten people who never used Linux before and who have only basic computer skills, I set out to run several LiveCDs through some informal tests.

"I think some people have been confused by my letter," says Nathan Hand, whose truce proposal with The SCO Group has produced a flurry of discussion here at LinuxWorld.

The focus of this release is bug fixing and polishing.

The Mozilla Foundation and European Mozilla contributors today announced the launch of the http://www.mozilla-europe.org web site and the Mozilla Europe non-profit organization to promote, develop and help deploy Mozilla products in Europe. These products include the award-winning Mozilla 1.6 web browser.

Rescuing a ViewSonic Tablet from the junkpile by installing SuSE 9.0.

The United Nations World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) has been doomed to failure from the start. That may seem odd, given both the abundance of free and open source software and the apparent interest by the UN in making such tools available to the impoverished -- a combination that seems a no-brainer. But in spite of the alignment of resource, need, and interest, the WSIS plan will fail. Here's why.

Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5.1, the company's enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS), has also been certified for Silicon Graphics SGI Advanced Linux Environment software.

This week the newsletter features an interesting interview with a Gentoo developer, and diverse other news.

A vulnerability in phpMyAdmin which was not properly verifying user generated input could lead to a directory traversal attack.

A vulnerability has been discovered by in the ptrace emulation code for AMD64 platforms when eflags are processed, allowing a local user to obtain elevated priveleges.

Lately we've received many questions from users wanting to know which distribution they should choose and how to go about obtaining them. Today we've addressed this by pointing to a topic from the forums that should help you get a head start on what's what and where to get it. Read on for more information.

At the BMW WilliamsF1 team's headquarters, HP announced it played a critical role in the construction and aerodynamic modelling of the groundbreaking new shape of the FW26 car.

Could the PC builder market be headed for a potential train wreck akin to the ongoing clash between SCO and the Linux community?

This release fixes a lot of bugs and regressions from the bonoboui->libegg port.

I'll show an easy way for yum repository building with wget and how to use it...The problems will be shown here starting from "How to install" famous rpm commands and then going to more interesting ones.

The city of Munich's plan to migrate its workers from Windows to Linux has hit a few snags, according to a story in Wired. Financial concerns over the cost of the project coupled with political concerns from within the city government have slowed the city's efforts to convert its 14,000 computers to the open-source operating system, and now the city has requested a complete briefing on the costs associated with the project.

There's a lot of glee in Linuxville right now, and Microsoft's name is mud in some circles. But the Linux community's reports of its death are premature.

The rising business trend toward using open source software platforms has brought an increase in the number of critical applications deployed on Linux and BEA WebLogic. For many organizations, in fact, WebLogic deployments are their first major Linux installation.