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Sun Microsystems plans to create more awareness and usage of open source with the rollout of its open source-based Java Desktop System (JDS) to secondary schools and institutions of higher education. The JDS, which was introduced late last year, consists of a fully integrated client environment based on open source components and industry standards and provides a complete desktop environment and productivity tools which includes the GNOME desktop environment, StarOffice Office Productivity Suite and a Linux operating system.

Linux customers should ignore SCO's legal threats until a court decision is reached in its copyright litigation with Novell, according to a paper published by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).

Red Hat is providing Telefonica Deutschland with its Enterprise Linux as the German company’s platform of choice for business operations

Mutt-1.4.2 has just been released; this version fixes a buffer overflow that can be triggered by incoming messages. There are reports about spam that has actually triggered this problem and crashed mutt.

The city of Schwäbisch Hall used toy penguins and gender competitiveness to persuade workers to accept the switch to desktop Linux

In 1999, I editorialized that the browser was the battleground that would win or lose us the whole thing. 4 years later, it is time to update the article with a slightly more optimistic view.

Many improvements have been made in the Linux 2.6 kernel to favor enterprise applications. This article presents results from the IBM Linux Technology Center's Web serving testing efforts, comparing the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels from various aspects. The highlights here are the key enhancements in the 2.6 kernel, the test methodologies, and the results of the tests themselves. Bottom line: the 2.6 kernel is much faster than 2.4 for serving Web pages, with no loss in reliability. [ Link via LWN.net]

New mutt packages that fix a remotely-triggerable crash in the menu drawing code are now available.

Munich is struggling with its planned migration from proprietary software to open-source applications, according to news stories in the German press that paint an increasingly gloomy picture of what had originally been widely described as a shining success story for Linux.

Red Hat has released a new kernel update, giving no information as to the problems fixed. The changelog was last updated on January 26th.

Sun is aiming for "hundreds of millions" of desktops in China to be running Linux on its Java Desktop System as a result of its recent deal with the Chinese government – but admits it won't make much money from it all.

The SCO Group has not sold a single intellectual property licence in Australia or New Zealand since they became available last month.

Here is the Novell Notice of Removal as text. The PDF is at http://pacer.utd.uscourts.gov/images/204cv0013900000001.pdf . Notice the judge listed on the papers? Judge Kimball. Yes. The very same.

One of the great things about Linux is its versatility, and that versatility is rarely as apparent as it is with Linux-based bootable business cards. Two of these small wonders are especially interesting: DamnSmall Linux and LNX-BBC.

In my last article I talked about the first of two approaches to rapid application development environments, programmable/scriptable database front ends. In this sequel I'll look at visual development environments that utilize a BASIC dialect as programming language to build Linux GUI applications.

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) is an oft misunderstood, and in at least this admin's opinion, underutilized mechanism on *nix systems. Sitting in its little corner of the /etc directory, PAM sits overlooking its configuration files and man pages, just waiting for someone to come along and discover the power that it can give to administrators and developers alike. When will they realize that PAM is not just for 'Authentication' anymore?

With a large addressable market like India, IT major IBM is gearing up to make the country a hub for its Linux initiatives in the Asean region, a senior company executive said on Wednesday.

A look at the history of Linux sound architectures and some of the benefits of ALSA.

Novell has launched another foray at the heart of The SCO Group's case against IBM, the 1995 contract in which SCO says Novell gave it the rights to UNIX™ and derivative works.

Today I received a call from one of my clients with the age old problem of, "I haven't used this server is ages, and I've forgotten the root password". Well, all is not lost!!