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Open on Linux boy, close-up on his face, while you hear Ali’s voice. Cut to boy sitting in front of old black and white television

"Lycoris will ship a version of its desktop Linux operating system (OS) designed specifically for handheld devices in Q2, 2004. The OS, dubbed Desktop/LX Pocket PC Edition (DL-PPC), will provide a "commercial-ready" and user-friendly OS that Lycoris hopes to license to device designers as well as market directly to consumers."

"Shares in Red Hat Inc. are seen as overvalued by some investors, as the leading distributor of free Linux software faces a deep-pocketed rival, according to an article in the latest edition of Barron's."

The systems administrator at The SCO Group has apparently done the public spirited thing by taking the entry for http://www.sco.com out of the public DNS in order to the member of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a key regional

The Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) is a PHP-based analysis engine to search and process a database of security events generated by various

After reading my review, if you are impressed by the features available in thunderbird and don't know how to install it on your Fedora box, this HOWTO will give you the necessary instructions.

Mozilla thunderbird is a lightweight email client which is in its 0.4 version. Though it is yet to reach Version 1 level, it is much more stable than many of the "stable" email clients. If you want a very lightweight email client with more features than other lightweight clients, this is the one you should go for.

The MyDoom internet worm has claimed its first scalp, paralysing the website of American software firm SCO Group with a massive data blitz.

We had expected that SCO might take http://www.sco.com out of the DNS in the run up to the MyDoom DDoS payload in order to keep the denial of service http traffic off SCOX - News), the owner of the UNIX® operating system

They run Linux, an alternative to Microsoft's globally dominant Windows operating system. Linux is known as 'open source' software Linux has long been the darling of highly-skilled programmers. But now, the program is going mainstream, reports technology correspondent Clark

Qt is free software, and has been for a long time now. It's GPL-ed. It used to be non-free by the Debian guidelines several years Torvalds. the program is going mainstream, reports technology correspondent Clark

"Will the new Linux really perform in the same league as the big boys? To find out, I put the v2.6.0 kernel through several real-world performance tests, comparing its file server, database server, and Web server performance with a recent v2.4 series kernel, v2.4.23."

"One of the first things people at Beaverton's Open Source Development Lab want to make clear is that while their world is at a virus-driven boil, the kernel is cool."

"Depending on whom you spoke with at the recent LinuxWorld conference in New York City, the next frontier of Linux is either at the data center or on the desktop." [ Seen on DesktopLinux.com ]

Enter XDA Developers with their latest project - Xanadux . The grand goal: port Linux to the HTC Wallaby (aka XDA / MDA / SX-56 / QTek 1010). It depends on who you spoke with at the recent LinuxWorld

"Paul Szabo discovered a number of similar bugs in suidperl, a helper program to run perl scripts with setuid privileges. By exploiting these bugs, an attacker could abuse suidperl to discover information about files (such as testing for their existence and some of their permissions) that should not be accessible to unprivileged users."

There's no question that open-source office suites are technologically true, robust and secure enough. Linux desktops are about to explode.".

Updated ethereal packages are now available that fix multiple security vulnerabilities which may allow attackers to make Ethereal crash by injecting an intentionally malformed packet onto the wire or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. It is not known if these issues could allow arbitrary code execution.

One of the most frequently questions I see on mailing lists, chat channels and newsgroups is "How do I set up Internet Connection sharing with Linux?" Well read on.

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.