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The Incubator Club is a forum where IT directors can exchange views and experiences related to open-source migrations, and one where problems can be identified and addressed.

The trend to adopt real-time versions of embedded Linux got a boost last week, when aircraft engine builder Pratt & Whitney revealed that it used a Linux-based software kernel to test its new F135 engine, which will power the U.S. military's Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.

Arch Linux is a great distro for the expert user who want a customized Linux installation without the hassle of hunting for packages and dependencies. Let's face it, the fun of Linux is tweaking and customizing not configure; make; make install. It's an extremely well done distribution that just plain works. In the week or so that I've been running it exclusively, I haven't run across any negatives.

Stefan Esser found[1] several remote vulnerabilities in Gaim. A remote attacker can use specially crafted network packets to exploit at least one of these vulnerabilities and execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the program or cause a denial of service condition.

Georgi Guninski found[1] a vulnerability[2] in vim that can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands when the user opens a text file specially crafted by an attacker. The vulnerability resides in the "modelines" feature, which allows one to place some VIM commands inside of a text file.

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The Mozilla Foundation Monday changed the name one last time of its next generation open-source browser, and launched a preview edition of the software that can be downloaded for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

The two-day course offers a detailed overview of the operating system and its desktop productivity tools.

Red Hat ... today announced that Telefonica Deutschland GmbH has chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux as their platform of choice for business operations. Telefonica, an integral provider of internet services and the second largest national IP carrier in Germany, is migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from proprietary Unix.

Linux customers are unlikely to be deterred by legal threats from SCO Group even while the outcome of SCO's legal battle with Novell remains undecided, according to a leading open-source group.

"Better to hop on the bandwagon, like IBM, then try to avert the inevitable," he said.

Another salvo in the war between SCO Group (Quote, Chart) and the open source community was fired today, as the Open Source Development Lab issued a white paper charging that SCO's legal campaign over Linux copyrights is "headed for a wall."

There's always time to hear how Linux can step right in and help an organization make or save money right away, right? To that end, here's another segment of our Immediate ROI series: a cheerful, real-life story with a good ending for your reading pleasure.

The SCO licensing campaign--which has been all bark and no bite since its introduction by way of threatening letters to the Fortune 1500 last summer--lost a wheel last month, and is now headed for the wall.

The Mozilla Foundation released a new version of its open source Web browser this week, with improvements to its download manager, extension, and bookmark handling, along with a new name aimed at skirting trademark complaints from another open source project.

Insight II and Catalystare now available as both clients and servers with certification on the latest IBM IntelliStation® workstations running Red Hat Linux.

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today published a position paper that indicates Linux customers will likely ignore SCO Group's legal threats until a court decision is rendered in the litigation brought by SCO Group against Novell on copyright ownership.

The NHS is to begin trials of a desktop Linux software suite in a move it says could free up money for the frontline health service and save taxpayer millions of pounds.

A division of the German finance ministry has moved its back office operations to mainframe computers that run Linux, in the latest victory for the upstart operating system in Europe, IBM said on Tuesday.

Despite the frequent attempts at competing formats, manual pages remain the core of standard Unix documentation. Users often prefer manual pages to other forms of documentation, and a well-written manual page is a valuable addition to any open-source project. This article discusses the issues faced in developing and writing manual pages, and a few quirks that you may encounter along the way.