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LAMP is at the heart of Emergency Response Network Systems and is saving lives. But recently, Microsoft maneuvered into taking the system away from a Free Software vendor. As Jim Lytle put it:

It concerns some information about the deployment of our product which looks like they are trying to replace it with Microsoft solution at DHS. In violation of many FARs (Federal Acquisition Regulations) in regards to COTS, commercial-off-the-shelf, technology etc. They have awarded a contract to an existing vender to "develop" a copy of our product. In addition to the utter disregard for the "Small Business" set-aside programs and other directives they are going ahead at the risk of providing a developmental system. This system is not tested and has no proven track record and doesn't currently exist.

Keep in mind, this is the Emergency Response Network System that worked so well during 911. I believe the failure to deploy since 911 has put our nation at risk and harmed such efforts as advanced hurricane notification that battered Florida, the Gulf and New Orleans: All because it's Linux and Microsoft can't have that.

Novell has introduced its first workgroup suite running on Linux. The Novell Open Workgroup Suite includes server and desktop components with management tools, e-mail and collaboration, office products.

Last month Nairobi, Kenya, hosted the Idlelo2 Conference, a major African free and open source software (FOSS) symposium sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), InWEnt Capacity Building International, Germany, and the eGovernment Directorate of Kenya. We spoke with one of the organizers of this year's conference, Milton Aineruhanga, program officer for Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET).

A further nine schools are set to benefit from Engen's support of Tuxlabs, bringing open source computer laboratories to South Africa's impoverished Eastern Cape province. The Eastern Cape currently has less than five percent ICT penetration in its 6 000 schools.

I have used Linux since I was eleven, and I'm approaching my seventeenth birthday now. I still consider myself an amateur at using the operating system, but I have discovered quite a few interesting tools to help improve my productivity with Linux. They're not exactly my sysadmin toolbox -- more like my desktop enhancement kit.

Not that it should come as much of a surprise that the largest flash memory manufacturer in the world would be dabbling in solid state disk drives (SSD), but once Samsung gets their legal ducks in a row we don't have any reason to believe they won't make good on taking that 32GB NAND SSD we saw appear at CeBIT to the consumer market.

Popular source code management tools go head to head

Linspire reached a deal earlier this year with Mirus Innovations to offer a line of OEM computers with Linux preinstalled, under the brand name Koobox. We're all in favor of the concept of desktop PCs with Linux preinstalled, but how does the Koobox measure up in practice? The end result is less than stellar.

Ballmer also explains why Microsoft, which on Thursday announced a sweeping reorganization of its Windows division, is less freaked out by free programs than it was a few years ago.

The Mozilla Foundation is planning to use some of its millions of dollars in revenues to fund active members of its developer community, the organization said Tuesday.

Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL is a robust and complete treatment of the processes and technologies that go into developing secure and scalable web applications. Ibrahim Haddad interviews the author to get the inside look on the state of open source Web development.

Security experts are advising users of the open source version of Sendmail to upgrade to the latest version, to fix a critical flaw attackers could exploit to gain remote root access to targeted machines. Sendmail is a popular Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server daemon used on mail gateways and forwarders to route and deliver e-mail. It is primarily used in UNIX server environments, although versions exist for Windows as well.

The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium that employs Linux founder Linus Torvalds, on Wednesday said it has formed a technical advisory board to improve communications between vendors, users and developers of the open-source operating system.

With the release of the 2.6.16 Linux kernel, Adrian Bunk reiterated his previously debated intention of maintaining the 2.6.16.y kernel tree well into the future.

Mondo Rescue is a robust disaster recovery software which can be used to take snapshots of your hard disk. Have you ever had the occation where your hard disk suddenly died on you? Then this software will help you save a lot of time, efforts in getting up and running with practically no loss of data.

Mr. Adelstein's article titled " Microsoft Has Stopped Competing with Linux" presented several assertions with which I cannot agree. It also strikes a tone that makes me uncomfortable.

Google released the first public beta of its Google Pages service Wednesday, allowing users who signed up for the service in January and February to begin creating personal websites using an easy-to-use, browser-based tool. The service gives each user 100 MB of free storage space on Google's servers.

Companies that try to pull the wool over free software advocates, ultimately fool no one. As advocates, we should either make the OSI enforce their definition or disband.

Using perl -e allows you to specify a script right on the command line. It's a powerful, underused feature even for people who use Perl regularly. Perl's powerful command line options make it a more flexible replacement for sed, awk, and even vi. Combine perl -e with the command line editing capability of modern shells and you can, write, test, and debug in record time.

Once upon a time, long long ago, everyone who was anyone in the Kingdom of Linux used SlackWare. Then, along came Red Hat, which many people in the kingdom thought was neater and had a great package manager. So, all the followers of the Great Penguin placed Red fedoras upon their heads and they were happy...