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The two Baghdad University engineering students are among just a handful of Iraqi citizens who are familiar with Linux -- and that has them deeply worried.

Today marks the official launch of a new open source project. Utkarsh is an operating system based on Linux and localized in the Gujarati language, spoken by more than 5.5 million in India's Gujarat state and worldwide. Utkarsh (which means progress or rising high) version 0.1 is now in beta testing, and the team is bubbling with ideas for future growth. Recently Mayank Sharma spoke with the young Gujarati entrepreneur behind the project, Nirav Mehta.

Continuing in my quest for a spam-free mailbox, I have become more and more interested in the way(s) spammers collect their victim's addresses. In fact, I routinely receive junk mail in various languages I don't even understand (Chinese, German, Korean, Brazilian, and God knows what else), let alone having any relationship whatsoever with those countries. So I started thinking how the heck some email addresses of mine ended up in those spamming lists.

Security software vendor Symantec Corp is considering a move to Linux on the desktop once it has rolled out a security software suite for the open source

Worldwide sales of server hardware reached $11.5 billion in the first quarter of 2004, according to research firm IDC. This represented 7.3 percent growth over the same period last year, and marks the fourth consecutive quarter of overall growth in the server market.

ipfilter now is available for GNU/Linux, but it's not quite ready to replace your current firewall setup.

MozillaNews is running an interview Daniel Glazman, lead developer of Nvu, the Web publishing tool based on Mozilla Composer. In the interview, Daniel discusses his time at Netscape, why he founded Disruptive Innovations and what his plans for the future of Composer are.

Software development is an iterative process that benefits from coordination between developers and with historical archives. To facilitate such practices, developers can turn to special versioning software. In this article we will explore Subversion, one of the most recently released version control suites.

After talking with MySQL and Red Hat executives, David Coursey finds that open source isn't just for communists after all—there's a real business rationale

Secure Linux distribution maker Trustix recently launched a software-pricing scheme aimed at users in the server hosting market.

Labeled a "Request for Discussion," the e-mail outlines a suggestion to his fellow kernel developers that - spurred by the SCO lawsuits - the time has come for

The chroot daemon allows you to run a program and have it see a given directory as the root (/) directory. This effectively locks the process into its very own filesystem ("chroot jail") isolated from the real / filesystem. In this article we will ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could have forced Linux vendor Lindows Inc. to change its business name worldwide, a Netherlands court on Thursday ruled that Lindows' current limited use of the Lindows name does not violate Microsoft Corp.'s Windows trademark.

Macromedia releases an update to its Flash Player for the open-source operating system, adding support for SOAP and a popular Web formatting style.

This article is supposed to give a positive answer for the question 23.10 from [1] Chapter "RPC" Originally only two files are taken from [1]: rdict.x and rdict_srp.c. All business logic is implemented into rdict_client.c file,generated by "rpcgen -a -M rdict.x" command. So,files rdict.c and rdict_cif.c (see [1] , Chapter "RPC") are just taken out.

As the open source industry grows and becomes more widely accepted, the use of Linux as a secure operating system is becoming a prominent choice among corporations, educational institutions and government sectors. With national security concerns at an all time high, the question remains: Is Linux secure enough to successfully operate the government and military's most critical IT applications?