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Updated Gaim packages that fix a pair of security vulnerabilities are now available.

Red Hat, Inc., long a sales leader in commercial Linux distributions, has made some strategic changes in the last year and has decided to aim squarely at the enterprise server market while deemphasizing its relationship with small-time developers.

Rapid application development environments let you produce code templates by visually designing a graphical user interface. You then simply add code for what should happen when an event (e.g. a click) occurs. Borland's Kylix is a well-known RAD application, but rumour has it Kylix's days are numbered. Time to look for alternatives.

The International Free Software Forum today issued a call for papers ahead of its next annual meeting. Proposals are due by March 7.

The first prize for the QtForum.org Developer Contest is USD 1500, and the second prize is USD 750. Two third prizes, the Judge's Choice Prize and the Community Choice Prize, will each be awarded USD 500.

Government adoption of Linux and open source software continues to hurdle new barriers and reach new benchmarks.

The continued uptake of Linux among enterprise customers is likely to be the year's biggest ongoing IT market trend, according to Brian Mitchell.

"The department is in the final stages of assessing a project that would result in the Sun Microsystems open source StarOffice productivity suite being deployed on the desktops of 1500 front-counter staff."

There were 13 security alerts issued last week: 5 from Red Hat, 5 from Debian, 1 from Fedora, 1 from Mandrake, and 1 from Conectiva.

Did you write an email virus and sic it on the world? I didn't think so. I didn't, either. Still, a recent BBC article headlined Linux cyber-battle turns nasty -- along with articles in many other respected publications -- makes it sound like "run-of-the-mill geeks" who use Linux are responsible for the MyDoom virus, instead of pointing out that this is the work of one or two demented individuals, not of "the Linux community."

There has been speculation about this for years, and this is still speculation, but Cohen is head of an organization that says it is "increasingly being recognized as the center-of-gravity for the Linux industry," and is rapidly proving himself at least as effective a Linux marketer as the freckle-faced boy in IBM's Linux ads, so his speculations carry more weight than most.

The Mozilla Foundation today announced a new preview release of its next generation web browser, Mozilla Firefox 0.8, as well as a name change for the product (previous name: Mozilla Firebird), along with a new preview release of the Thunderbird mail client.

A look at some of CORBA's advanced features, including Naming Services.

"I am afraid that, in the excitement, many users are mixing up the company that they try to escape ( Microsoft ) and companies in general, leading to a very confusing and potentially dangerous situation -- and I am not talking about economics here..."

"Open-source software is popping up everywhere, from PCs and cellphones to giant corporate and government systems. Today the biggest challenge confronting virtually every major software maker is chillingly simple: How do you compete with programs that can be had free?"

With this tutorial, I will try to give you the steps to build Jakarta Tomcat, as an RPM package. This will allow for easy deployment, with the use of mod_jk2 and Fedoras httpd (Apache2).

In Part 1 I discussed how the software development world is about to be turned on it's head. Now in Part 2 I look at how the hardware world may be about to undergo even bigger changes and why it wont be a hardware manufacturer leading the way.

OSNews is accompanied by the tagline "Exploring the Future of Computing". In this article I've decided to do exactly that, to go beyond the daily stream of the latest updates & rumors and cast my eyes at the future. What will happen to Software, Hardware the Companies and Technologies involved and how these are developed. I for one think there will be big changes to come, some for the better, some for the worse.

The ancient version of the Linux kernel has been updated with some security fixes and some other minor issues.

Paul Couture has graciously agreed to write an article for Groklaw on MyDoom. I found him when I was reading about MyDoom on Slashdot for the story I did about the crank calls, and I noted a comment from someone who seemed knowledgeable about protecting companies from such things, who said that he dealt with such issues on a daily basis in connection with his work, and that in his opinion, this had all the emarks of professional spammers, not a Linux enthusiast. How, he wondered, could the media get this so wrong? So I contacted him, after researching a little about him and his work (he did computer work for six years for the US Air Force and now works in network support and does web design). I asked him to explain a bit about MyDoom and why he is convinced from the way MyDoom was written that it is professional spammers. SCO isn't the main target, in his opinion.He isn't alone in that opinion, by the way. Did you know that MyDoom will attack Kazaa next? It seems MyDoom will create worm-laden copies of entertainment software after the attack on SCO.