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Welcome to this year's 15th issue of DistroWatch Weekly. This will be an interesting week for distribution developers and beta testers - if everything goes according to the plan, the release candidate of the much delayed SUSE Linux 10.1 should be released later this week, together with the first beta of Ubuntu Linux 6.06. We'll also look at the events of the past week - the unexpected burial of the Fedora Foundation plans, troubles in Kubuntu, and elections of the new Debian Project Leader. As promised, the winners of the Beginning Ubuntu Linux competition are also announced. Happy reading! Join us at irc.freenode.net #distrowatch

This tutorial describes the basics of the Domain Name System (DNS) that Linux system administrators should know of. Front-ends and quick templates to set up domain records have a place in managing sites, but when confronted with DNS configurations already in existence, nothing can substitute for knowing and using the fundamentals.

As it opens up to Linux and rival software, company faces deep skepticism over whether it's really changed its stripes.

Google is launching an upgrade to its toolbar for Mozilla's Firefox browser, adding enhancements to the search box and an antiphishing feature.

China’s Linux market revenue reached USD11.8 million in 2005, up 27.1% over 2004. 2005 saw a steady growth in the China Linux market, brought about mainly by the huge volume of government procurements and large-scale SCO Unix replacement by major banks and industrial projects such as Telecommunication and Internet cafes...

"One of the amazing benefit of working with open source is that you're interacting with a worldwide network of really, really smart people instead of dealing with your typical corporate software support structure," says J. Johnson, manager of Web technology for the Christian Science Monitor.

The email delivery firm looks set to open source some of its proprietary technologies.

David Ascher, CTO and vice president of engineering for programming tool vendor ActiveState, has seen his company through several incarnations. The latest change is ActiveState's re-emergence as an independent company after more than two years as a subsidiary of security software vendor Sophos. I talked with Ascher about what ActiveState's new status means, where the company has been and where it's going. His answers illustrate the challenges of building a company around free and open source software, and reflect how the market for FOSS has changed over the last six years.

Applications tend to drive platform choices when all other economic factors remain equal, but since 2000, all economic factors have not remained equal and that is why Wintel and Lintel platforms took off as RISC/Unix platforms were too pricey for some IT budgets. It is now six years since the bottom fell out of the worldwide dot-com economy and IT budgets felt the crunch, and Linux is so established that it is about ready to draw even with the darling of the dot-com era, the Solaris platform, among Oracle database customers.

Microsoft Corp. took a big chunk of the Web server market this month at the expense of Apache running on Linux, as a major domain registrar moved to the Windows platform, a research and security firm said Thursday. The Redmond, Wash., company gained a 4.7 percent share while the open-source alternative fell 5.9 percent, making the shift one of the largest one-month swings on record, U.K.-based Netcraft Ltd. said. Microsoft's bonanza was driven by domain registrar Go Daddy migrating 3.5 million hostnames from Linux to Windows.

On the scene at LinuxWorld Boston, Bruce Perens tries to convince the community that it's time to challenge the patent system.

But the Free Software Foundation Europe argues it's not users that want DRM - it's record companies and the like.

Debian GNU/Linux is a powerful and popular community-developed Linux distribution--and the basis for several other useful and usable distributions. One of the reasons for its popularity is the ease of installing and maintaining software. Edd Dumbill, Debian developer and GNU/Linux advocate, shows how to use Debian's tools to find and install software packages.

Microsoft is working with Linux software maker XenSource Inc. to make sure files created on Windows machines can be used with Linux, Bill Hilf, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, said Wednesday. Hilf described the collaboration in Microsoft's first-ever keynote address at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston yesterday.

OpenMFG, the leading provider of open source-based enterprise solutions for small manufacturers and distributors, today announced two new initiatives to support the global open source community.

LinuxWorld Conference& Expo Boston had a decidedly subdued air this year -- one colleague called it "sleepy" -- and many were wondering why big names such as IBM and HP weren't exhibiting. The show was held at the Boston Convention Center, a sprawling complex big enough for two or three shows at the same time, and if walking distance from classrooms to show floor to press lounge were an indicator, the show could be considered huge. But LinuxWorld didn't have enough exhibitors to fill up the floor, and many booth operators looked like they needed more to do.

New Delhi: Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) will implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its desktops and servers. This will result in the migration of all its mission critical business applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, across all its locations in India and abroad.

EnterpriseDB has hired Bruce Momjian, a well-known leader of the PostgreSQL open source community and member of the PostgreSQL Core Team, and Simon Riggs (pictured below), a major PostgreSQL contributor and an authority on PostgreSQL performance.