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"Debian is by far the most appropriate choice for an ARM desktop distribution, for reasons I'll discuss shortly. "

NEW YORK -- A leader of the Open Source movement recently offered sharp words about legal battles in the community, ranging from SCO's fight for code control

By Jacqueline Emigh. Red Hat Inc. officials last week beat the drum about the need for better system administration tools for Linux.

Do you promise not to engage in unethical or anticompetitive behavior against the Linux community?" asked one attendee, while another shouted, "Open the

A fast-spreading e-mail virus appears to be using infected machines to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the sco.com web site, according Property License, but its channel partners are hardly chomping at the

Most people working in the database world know about the open source database MySQL, but fewer are familiar with MaxDB, MySQL's enterprise-class brother. The current MaxDB release is basically a rebranded release of SAP DB with a number of incremental improvements.

As an individual who is participating in the development of free software solutions for enabling e-government access for the blind, I was very interested to learn of the Danish government's effort to create an electronic document repository. However, the government will face some serious problems if it is carried through according to the current plan. Here's why.

says TrustSight Security Hardening can be used with other software, such as ModSecurity, to enhance the security of Apache servers and servers running PHP.

Updated screen packages are now available that fix a security vulnerability which may allow privilege escalation for local users, and possibly remote attacks or getting control of another user's screen.

"A buffer overflow was discovered in mc's virtual filesystem code. This vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion."

"A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the gaim instant messenger program by Steffan Esser, versions 0.75 and earlier. Thanks to Jacques A. Vidrine for providing initial patches."

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in tcpdump versions prior to 3.8.1 that, if fed a maliciously crafted packet, could be exploited to crash tcpdump or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running tcpdump. These vulnerabilities include:

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the gaim instant messenger program by Steffan Esser, versions 0.75 and earlier. Thanks to Jacques A. Vidrine for providing initial patches.

By Special Contributor Ben Mazer - Posted on 2004-01-26 19:52:08. Lately, there has been a "Why linux isn't ready for the desktop" article every 3 days. that it is the first groupware product to run entirely on Linux at both

"Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all ElGamal keys used for signing."

"12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant messenger GAIM that allow remote compromise. All sites using GAIM should upgrade to these new packages."

"US Patent and Trademark Office officials are looking toward Linux and Java technologies as they begin planning for a comprehensive new information technology that it is the first groupware product to run entirely on Linux..."

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is porting OpenView Operations (OVO) to Linux, and renewing OpenView for Unix in the process. Due next 3 days. that it is the first groupware product to run entirely on Linux at both

UPDATED A new Windows virus, called MyDoom (officially, W32/Mydoom@MM) and circulating in the form of a 32K Zip file, began hitting corporate and private e-mail boxes Monday at about 1 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. It masquerades as a Kazaa P2P component and tries to embed itself in the Kazaa shared folder for music and other file-swapping.

OS without flinching. Red Hat Fedora and Mandrake 9.2 run on our test XP machine through VPC2004 without a hitch. However, users II.