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"The Linux Professional Institute's (LPI's) Linux certification exams are easily accessible and inexpensive; actually, they're free to those who attended LinuxWorld Conference & Expo last week. But they're not easy."

Open-source software proponent Free Standards Group said Thursday that it has released version 2.0 of its Linux development guidelines to the public.

HR 3261 and database protection; KDE 3.2; Just another Microsoft worm; LWN's new server, Top ten web application vulnerabilities, Filesystems in user space; Fixing sleep_on() in 2.6; Module unloading in a reference counted world.

Tadpole has taken its longstanding relationship with Sun technologies a step further, as this family of Linux based laptops is the first to sport a fully

"A new single board computer (SBC) company plans to form around a chewing gum-sized SBC running embedded Linux currently being prepared for market. "Gumstix" plans to launch as a company within two to three weeks, according to sources close to the Gumtix project. Its first board will target wearable, smartphone, and PDA applications."

Jim Elliott, IBM Canada's Linux advocate, said the company will start its formal testing of the enterprise versions for hardware and software certification

"has been awarded top honors by the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards, as unveiled at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo® 2004 held last week in New York."

In an effort to break away from proprietary computer systems, the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems (Jafoos) has started rewriting its today announced that the Helix(TM) Player, the first commercial grade,

IT buyers expect spend on Open Source/Linux applications to grow by 2.8% in 2004, according to the NOP World Technology Confidence Barometer. its today announced that the Helix(TM) Player, the first commercial grade,

automation software developer Ensim Corporation (ensim.com) announced on Wednesday that its Ensim Pro and Ensim Basic control panels will support the Red Hat

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. The SCO Group Inc. isn't taking the upcoming distributed denial-of-service attacks from the MyDoom worm lying down.

The W32.Novarg.A@mm (MyDoom) virus, which has emerged as an unlikely weapon in the ongoing 'Linux War' between SCO and the open-source community, is set to it one of the first banking systems to run on the open-source platform.

(Nasdaq: CCUR) has begun delivery of version 2.0 of its RedHawk Linux real-time operating system, designed specifically for the AMD Opteron 64-bit processor. GNU-Linux distributor. It might be there already. Novell

Users who want a Red Hat-style distribution free now to use Fedora, which is styled as a "a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project

Japanese software maker NEC Soft announced Wednesday that it has joined Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). The company plans to

Debian: The Debian with all the cds I also could never get it installed back when I was more of a noobie then now. So I gave up. I continue to use it; I have, however, set up complete newbies on SUSE download. The install is *much* easier than the Debian woody.

With the aging population in many countries and the ever-increasing speed of medical and technological advances, it's not a huge intellectual leap to realize that if you're either entering the work world for the first time or considering a change in focus or occupation, you should look at the health care industry. The need for programmers and other IT people in the medical field grows every year. Today we'll look specifically at radiology, and how you can prepare yourself for a research or IT-based career in this area.

While Microsoft has a track record of deflecting DDoS attacks, the SCO Group's ability to defend its web site is complicated by the company's legal battle with

"Stefan Esser found 12 vulnerabilities in gaim that can lead to a remote system compromise with the privileges of the user running GAIM."

Rather than reinvent the wheel and recreate a core Linux certification, [SuSE] decided it was better to use the LPI exams and do a [SuSE-specific] exam on top