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Open Source software, already in widespread use for server applications, may in future provide departments with a viable alternative to existing software suppliers for a broader range of functions including desktop applications, opening up the marketplace to wider competition and potential improvements in value for money.

IBM has been busy on the free-for-download development tool front in recent weeks. Its latest offering, released today on AlphaWorks.com, is a new Structural Analysis Java tool that automatically detects and pinpoints architectural weaknesses -- and even potential weaknesses -- in Java applications.

At the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston, Red Hat and IBM detailed their desktop Linux plans. And the Open Source Development Lab, which so far has concentrated on Linux for the data storage and processing computers called servers, expects to launch a new group to concentrate on desktop needs starting next year.

Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for the x86, AMD64, PowerPC, Sun SPARC, and SGI MIPS architectures.

Last month, Pat read about some classics: Perl, Python, PHP and MySQL... Over the past month, I've read four books that I wanted to review for you: Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules, Text Processing in Python, Core PHP Programming, 3rd Ed. and MySQL 2nd Ed.. All of them are good books for the audience each is trying to hit. Take a look below for some more information.

Companies seeking to cost-effectively distribute information to a broad set of users can now utilize the low-cost of Linux in combination with Actuate Enterprise Reporting Applications to ensure 100% adoption of decision-making information into day-to-day activities, thereby improving corporate performance.

The Apache Software Foundation announced that some versions of mod_python contain a bug which, when processing a request with a malformed query string, could cause the corresponding Apache child to crash. This bug could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

There were 15 security alerts issued last week:

• 5 from Debian
• 1 from Fedora
• 1 from Immunix
• 3 from Mandrake
• 1 from Mozilla
• 2 from Red Hat
• 1 from SUSE
• 1 from Trustix

Open Source Version of Proven Performer Delivers Major Cost Benefits to Grocers

KDE Traffic #75 is out with news regarding KDE's future, KDE Edu, HTML message composition for KMail and more. In case you missed the previous edition, which wasn't announced on the dot due to personal problems, follow the link to KDE Traffic #74. [Thanks to KDE.news.]

Novell is set to make inroads into China’s Linux market this year, after partnership talks with major Chinese Linux vendor RedFlag and the unveiling of its Linux products.

Officials say a new law will be announced by this summer requiring a minimum percentage of software bought by the government be produced in China. That's crucial in a country where the government accounts for 25 percent of the $30 billion software market.

The deadline for the Open Source Reference Book 2004 published by The Center of Open Source and Government is March first. Listings are free, and almost any kind of open source-oriented business, non-profit group or open source project qualifies for inclusion.

roseman wrote in to tell us about a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mozilla, which was discovered and fixed in December last year. An advisory from Secunia refers to the flaw as "Less critical", while a SecurityTracker note gives more precise details of the bug, which could allow a malicious site to read another site's cookies or access other data recently submitted by the user.

The pdaXrom team, found at http://www.pdaXrom.org, has been successful in making Mozilla Firefox run on the Sharp Zaurus series PDA (at the moment only the C7X0 series), which means that users now can use this wonderful browser for 'pocket browsing'. :-)

Chinese officials are saying that they will announce a law by summer that will require that a certain percentage of all software used by the government be produced in China. No one yet knows how much the percentage will be, though some say as much as 70%, but they are predicting that GNU/Linux will benefit, no matter what the percentage chosen...

META Group said the rivalry is not against Microsoft and the open source community but rather between commercial software business and the open source industry.

Open source software (OSS) originated from exactly this scenario in universities where talent is available but the budgets are not always as big as they should be." The result was powerful and flexible software with little or no cost that was shared by users so that everyone could benefit.

At The People Behind KDE this week an interview with the man who represents what working and contributing to a project like KDE stands for.

The Spanish computer will be built over four years by IBM, and use the Linux operating system, the government said in a news conference.