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Updated util-linux packages that fix an information leak in the login program are now available.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

VNUNet interviews Stuart Cohen, the chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs.

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.

...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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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).

The Canadian Society that manages street parking and public parking lots for the City of Montreal is planning to roll out 500 to 800 wireless, solar-powered parking payment stations based on embedded Linux.

Yuuichi Teranishi discovered a flaw in libxml, the GNOME XML library. When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, the library uses special parsing routines which can overflow a buffer if passed a very long URL. If an attacker is able to find an application using libxml1 or libxml2 that parses remote resources and allows the attacker to craft the URL, then this flaw could be used to execute arbitrary code.