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ipfilter now is available for GNU/Linux, but it's not quite ready to replace your current firewall setup.

MozillaNews is running an interview Daniel Glazman, lead developer of Nvu, the Web publishing tool based on Mozilla Composer. In the interview, Daniel discusses his time at Netscape, why he founded Disruptive Innovations and what his plans for the future of Composer are.

Software development is an iterative process that benefits from coordination between developers and with historical archives. To facilitate such practices, developers can turn to special versioning software. In this article we will explore Subversion, one of the most recently released version control suites.

After talking with MySQL and Red Hat executives, David Coursey finds that open source isn't just for communists after all—there's a real business rationale

Secure Linux distribution maker Trustix recently launched a software-pricing scheme aimed at users in the server hosting market.

Labeled a "Request for Discussion," the e-mail outlines a suggestion to his fellow kernel developers that - spurred by the SCO lawsuits - the time has come for

The chroot daemon allows you to run a program and have it see a given directory as the root (/) directory. This effectively locks the process into its very own filesystem ("chroot jail") isolated from the real / filesystem. In this article we will ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could have forced Linux vendor Lindows Inc. to change its business name worldwide, a Netherlands court on Thursday ruled that Lindows' current limited use of the Lindows name does not violate Microsoft Corp.'s Windows trademark.

Macromedia releases an update to its Flash Player for the open-source operating system, adding support for SOAP and a popular Web formatting style.

This article is supposed to give a positive answer for the question 23.10 from [1] Chapter "RPC" Originally only two files are taken from [1]: rdict.x and rdict_srp.c. All business logic is implemented into rdict_client.c file,generated by "rpcgen -a -M rdict.x" command. So,files rdict.c and rdict_cif.c (see [1] , Chapter "RPC") are just taken out.

As the open source industry grows and becomes more widely accepted, the use of Linux as a secure operating system is becoming a prominent choice among corporations, educational institutions and government sectors. With national security concerns at an all time high, the question remains: Is Linux secure enough to successfully operate the government and military's most critical IT applications?

Next time your NTFS-based drive decides to take a sudden trip down south, give BG-Rescue Linux a try.

THE SOFTWARE COLOSSUS which bestrides the Solar System, Microsoft, is apparently designing a secret weapon to take out Linux. Its

Let's say you're a Chinese or Iranian citizen with the good luck to have access to an Internet connection. If you were interested in finding out about democracy, grass-roots political organization, or privacy by using that connection, you'd probably have a tough time, thanks to an Internet filtering service sponsored by the U.S. tax dollars.

When Novell made its surprise announcement last week that Ximian Connector was being released under the free software GPL license, I began to wonder if it marked the end of the Ximian era. Connector, after all, was the centerpiece of the Ximian strategy to make inroads into the corporate desktop market by providing full compatibility with the widely used Microsoft Exchange mail server. The answer? Novell giveth and Novell taketh away.