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This chapter will give you an in-depth view of this real-time chat server application implemented in PHP, similar to an extended software case study.

XFree86.org president David Dawes announced a draft of a new version of the XFree86 license on the XFree86.org mailing list yesterday. The new license is scheduled to become effective with the 4.4.0 release. According to Dawes, the change is being made in order to "ensure that XFree86 and its contributors are receiving due credit for their work." A draft of the new license along with the original can be found here.

"A judge in the Netherlands today granted Microsoft a preliminary injunction against desktop Linux vendor Lindows.com Inc., a decision Lindows.com plans to appeal."

In my last two articles, I have been on a bit of a tangent from PHP while I discuss the fundamentals of working with the MySQL RDBMS and MySQL SQL syntax.

"For many people, I can see that Lindows would be a great fit, but it isn't for me."

I just spent several weeks installing and configuring MythTV, an open source application that gives a computer TiVo-like personal video recorder capabilities. I learned a lot of lessons along the way that I'll share here. The biggest one is... Don't do it! Unless you can view the process as an intellectual challenge, spending the money for an actual TiVo will save you dozens of hours you could spend on more pleasurable activities.

Now he's looking for another windfall, courtesy of open source software. When most people think about open source, they usually

"He can't say he wasn't warned. In June, 2002 ... Darl McBride ... mused that claiming ownership of some of the underlying code in the popular Linux computer operating system could keep the company afloat."

has the ability to make standalone applications run in parallel across a group of computers and act as one, including the Open Source database system PostgreSQL

"Lineox has announced their new Linux-based distribution built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. The release, Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0, contains all freely distributable programs found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS/ES/WS, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and Red Hat Developer Suite. The release offers customers a low cost enterprise-level Linux operating system without bundled support options."

"Novell is well on its way to being the number one enterprise and desktop GNU-Linux distributor. It might be there already. Novell dominated last week's LinuxWorld Exposition." [Link seen on DesktopLinux.com.]

"Applications are what's important," Kusnetzky says. "Do companies care that a certain application is running on top of Solaris or Linux or Windows?

Marcia Knous writes: "Response has been good for the upcoming Mozilla Foundation Developer Day on February 27, 2004 — In order to reserve your space (and to

"A German-language conference on embedded Linux in industrial control and automation will take place March 4-5 in Hannover, Germany. Co-sponsored by the Universität Hannover, the conference provides an opportunity for European companies and computer science students to meet and learn about the rapid adoption of Linux for industrial control applications."

Over the six months from July 2003, Debian has been the fastest growing Linux distribution according to Bath-based Internet researcher Netcraft.

"For three days, 10 KDE developers and a few others helped deal with a huge amount of interest from the crowd, showing off the latest and greatest in KDE 3.2..."

"ARM announced plans to acquire Triscend, a pioneer in configurable system-on-chip (CSoC) processors and customizable microcontrollers. Founded in 1997, Triscend is a 41-person, privately-held, venture capital-funded company based in Mountain View, Calif. The company's customizable SoC technology is said to offer the flexibility of a field-programmable device but at a price point comparable to an off-the-shelf standard product."

"A community project called Fedora Legacy was also mentioned, but the group hadn't made any releases. That's now changed, as the group has announced its first round of official updates."

"Rick Lehrbaum, founder and editor-in-chief of LinuxDevices.com, will give a noontime keynote address today at a conference in San Jose, Calif., on the state of the embedded Linux market. Lehrbaum's presentation is also available online for the benefit of those unable to attend."

Some freely available open source solutions include postfix (www.postfix.org), qmail (www.qmail.org), or the venerable sendmail (www.sendmail.org, but you need