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Opinion: A SCO Win Could Hurt Microsoft, Too
First of all, Linux will continue to grow, even with a SCO tax. Surveys I have conducted for clients find that most developers, for example, seem unfazed by the prospect of a SCO tax. Only a handful would reconsider their Linux plans if SCO prevailed.
Plenty of Linux jobs -- at the top, anyway
Stacy Holland ... has plenty of career advice for coders (and others) who want to become top management, along with tips on how to ride the waves of today's shifting IT job market.
Er... MS UK sponsors open source deployment workshop
Microsoft has indeed been starting to show up at Linux events claiming to have become kinder and gentler, but by bankrolling a workshop intended to provide guidance on OSS deployment its surely veering into excess of philanthropy territory.
French government to test open source on the desktop
The French government will install open source software on the desktop as part of Project ADELE, a plan to computerize much of the country's administration by 2007, a government official said Wednesday.
Gentoo alert: Gallery <= 1.4.1 and below remote exploit vulnerability
The Gallery developers have discovered a potentially serious security
flaw in Gallery 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4 and 1.4.1 which can a remote
exploit of your webserver.
Gentoo alert: Monkeyd Denial of Service vulnerability
A bug in get_real_string() function allows for a Denial of Service
attack to be launched against the webserver.
Gentoo alert: XFree86 Font Information File Buffer Overflow
Exploitation of a buffer overflow in the XFree86 Project Inc.'s XFree86
X Window System allows local attackers to gain root privileges.
Red Hat appoints Israeli company Matrix as Distributor of its solutions and services in Israel
It Anticipates Income of $2 Million from Activities and Services in the Linux Environment
Red Hat picks Israeli distributor
Raleigh-based Red Hat has named Israel-based Matrix as the main distributor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux software and services in the Israeli market.
Inside Lineox Linux
DesktopLinux.com interviews Raimo Koski, the founder of Finland-based Lineox Linux. Offering a Linux distribution based on Red Hat's software, Lineox reduces the cost of Linux by eliminating many of the production fees associated with boxed sets and bundled support programs. Koski explains Lineox's unique approach and how customers can benefit from regional support.
IBM, ISVs lure NT users with Linux
IBM's plan to recruit Microsoft NT users to IBM and Linux may be viewed by some as laughable. But Big Blue couldn’t be more serious about the open source platform. IBM says the rising number of ISVs moving to open source is proof that it has a chance at converting thousands.
Dark Tip: MenuetOS
I'm impressed with this tiny, 100-percent free, open-source OS written in assembly. You programming buffs know that assembly, pretty much the mother of all languages, can work blistering fast when used correctly.
Enterprises opening their wallets for Linux
Spending on Linux will climb by as much as 10% at enterprises surveyed recently by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com.
Why should free software have to earn a profit?
What's hard about free software is that it makes the necessary losses more explicit. On the other hand, investing in free software is made easier because its benefits flow more immediately and obviously to the same ultimate beneficiaries as the other technological advances--everybody.
Open Source Alternative
Sun Microsystems plans to create more awareness and usage of open source with the rollout of its open source-based Java Desktop System (JDS) to secondary schools and institutions of higher education. The JDS, which was introduced late last year, consists of a fully integrated client environment based on open source components and industry standards and provides a complete desktop environment and productivity tools which includes the GNOME desktop environment, StarOffice Office Productivity Suite and a Linux operating system.
OSDL tells users to ignore SCO threats
Linux customers should ignore SCO's legal threats until a court decision is reached in its copyright litigation with Novell, according to a paper published by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).
Second Largest IP Provider in Germany Picks Red Hat
Red Hat is providing Telefonica Deutschland with its Enterprise Linux as the German company’s platform of choice for business operations
Security alert: Mutt-1.4.2 fixes buffer overflow
Mutt-1.4.2 has just been released; this version fixes a buffer overflow that can be triggered by incoming messages. There are reports about spam that has actually triggered this problem and crashed mutt.
German city reveals Linux migration tactics
The city of Schwäbisch Hall used toy penguins and gender competitiveness to persuade workers to accept the switch to desktop Linux
The Tide Has Turned in the Battle of the War
In 1999, I editorialized that the browser was the battleground that would win or lose us the whole thing. 4 years later, it is time to update the article with a slightly more optimistic view.
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