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Cleveland's Key Bank is keeping its own bank balance healthy by moving much of its back-end infrastructure to Linux.

In mid-2004, Key Bank, which manages US$92.3 billion in customer assets, began replacing aging Unix servers with Intel-based Linux servers that are less expensive than sticking with pricey and proprietary Unix hardware. The bank saw its server costs fall by 80 percent, according to Dave Seager, vice president of Unix systems engineering.

Richard Stallman, founder of FSF, speaks on the proposed changes to the GPL and his hopes for the revision process

The "Device Software Optimization" (DSO) concept championed by Wind River has gained another proponent. In this brief interview, LinuxDevices speaks with Enea CEO Johan Wall about DSO as a potential antidote to exploding device software complexity, and the possible formation of a DSO industry group.

There is an interview with Aaron J. Seigo on LinuxDevCenter.com. John Littler visited one of Aaron's presentations and asked him about what he was shown, the current work on KDE 4, the goals of KDE and about the KDE port to windows.

KernelTrap is now offering AdSense revenue sharing on a trial basis. To participate, you will first need a Google AdSense account (follow the link within if you do not already have an AdSense account). Next, you will need tocreate a KernelTrap user account and enter your publically viewable google_ad_client ID. Finally,contribute original and relevant content to KernelTrap, and 80% of the profits generated will be automatically credited to your AdSense account. This applies to new forum postings, as well as personal blogs. Inapproriate or otherwise not relevant content will be removed, and the offending user accounts will be blocked. This is a new program that I am doing on a trial basis, if you have any problems with funds not appearing in your AdSense account please send an email to jeremy@kerneltrap.org and I will help track down the problem so that future funds are properly credited to your account. The goal is to encourage submission of useful original content related to Kernel development -- if instead this leads to the contribution of useless or offtopic posts, the program will be canceled.

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Opinion OpenBSD exposes its inconsistencies

Ready to synchronize your Palm OS-based PDA with your Linux desktop? Here's a trio of GUI-based options and a command-line tool for you to try.

The first, and perhaps only, time you have to create a new file system on your Linux computer is when you first install the operating system. If you add a second hard drive, or have set up a series of mount points that you decide to adjust in one way or another, you can use SUSE's YaST Expert Partitioner tool to handle this task for you.

Penguin Computing has snagged Pauline Nist, formerly the vice president of Hewlett-Packard's enterprise, storage, and servers unit, to serve as senior vice president of product development and management for Penguin. In bringing in Nist, Penguin Computing is looking to improve its standing in the cluster computing market.

DistroWatch states - Kya Linux is a Linux live CD based on Slackware and SLAX. It is developed at the Universidade Estadual do Ceará in Brazil.

LinShots has taken some nice screen shots of Kya Linux 1.0 RC1.

A certification scheme for suppliers of open source software (OSS) is expected to help public sector IT buyers make better procurement decisions.

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) is encouraging government bodies and local councils to use OSS because it is free to download and is easier to integrate with other systems. To support this drive, the ODPM funded the formation of the Open Source Academy (OSA), a group of nine IT bodies and local authorities, to develop a certification scheme.

The General Public License covers some of the most important software in widespread use: Linux, MySQL (dual-licensed by the vendor), Samba, and many other modern packages, not to forget the suite of compiler tools and command-line utilities from the Free Software Foundation, for which the GPL was originally designed.

That's why hundreds of people came to hear Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen (law professor and general counsel for the FSF) lay out their proposed new version of GPL on Monday. And why the audience included world-renowned leaders from many free software projects--even some projects such as Apache that aren't covered by the GPL.

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Andy Oram is an editor for O'Reilly Media, specializing in Linux and free software books, and a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. His web site is http://www.praxagora.com/andyo.