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Debian is one of the most popular Linux distros available, and is very often used in enterprise environments where reliability is key.

A report shows widespread enthusiasm for open source software in colleges and universities but a lack of clear support from the top

For most people, mobile computing means a laptop. Some make do with a Linux live CD distribution such as Knoppix and a USB pen drive to save their data, or one of the newer live CD distros that run off a rewritable CD or USB drive, but if you can't restart the box where you end up, those won't help you. Now, thanks to John T. Haller's PortableApps project, you get to use your favorite open source productivity applications from a USB drive without restarting a Windows-based host computer.

Oracle wins infringement suitA German court has upheld adecision by a lower court in Munich which banned the resale of used software licenses.…

So you want to run Linux, but you really would rather have it preinstalled? Good idea. It's for those users that longtime LXer.com reader cyber_rigger started putting together his "Companies selling preinstalled Linux and no-OS" listing.

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Cyber_rigger's new list is for everyone who wants a low-end Linux desktop or laptop that just works. In other words, it's for home users.

With its new round of "Cool Blue" PC servers, rolled out last week, IBM is starting to push HPC (high-performance computing) beyond the scientific-technical niche and into the mainstream, particularly among SMBs (small to mid-sized businesses). Jacqueline Emigh reports.

The multifunction printers found in many offices are not dumb devices, but are computers that can be hacked, a security expert has warned.

Linux, the open-source operating system long popular with programmers, is being used by more U.S. companies and in more products.

[From the article: "It seems Linux may become a formidable competitor against Microsoft in the embedded systems market."
Seems to me they got something backwards there. - dcparris]

Los Angeles, CA (OPENPRESS) January 11, 2005 -- The Southern California Linux Expo has announced that Sophos has signed on as one of the latest sponsors of SCALE 3x, the Third Annual Southern California Linux Expo. SCALE 3x has been called " .. one of the few good grass-root level technical conferences for Linux" by Linux Kernel Developer Robert Love.

Last week, JBoss Inc., provider of an Open Source J2EE application server received $10 million in venture funding in a group led by Matrix Partners. But what does JBoss founder Marc Fluery, want to do with that money? And will VC investment water down the Open Source movement?

Review: Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is a strong contender to Windows on corporate clients, with a well-thought-out desktop environment and some innovative features.

Starting in 1843, a steady progression of emigrants began travelling the Oregon Trail. Thousands came west. Some said it was Manifest Destiny and the will of God that America should expand from sea to sea. Others saw it as opportunity. The 2000 miles trail was not without its trials – confused mapmakers and wheelbarrows that put human endurance to test. The domination of Linux in the server market (73% of Web Servers run Linux, at last count), and its en route saga, in many ways draw a striking semblance to the Oregon Trail. And much like the Oregon Trail, its path has been ridden with perils (read Security) that were partly shielded by Mormon handcarts and caravans. O'Reilly deserves credit for capturing on the cover, a typical family caravan on the Oregon Trail. So, does the book end up teaching you how to put together a typical caravan or a hack-free Mormon handcart? Read the rest of this review to find out.

Today we received confirmation that we have been successful in obtaining a booth at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.

Want to protect your SOHO machine or LAN from rootkits and malware, but want something a little more real-time than simply running Chkrootkit or another rootkit detector after the fact? Consider OSSEC-HIDS, an open source host intrusion detection system.

Linux is the fastest-growing embedded operating environment in the world today. It's quickly becoming the single largest operating system platform for embedded computing. As a result, many technology managers must come to grips with the complexity and the dynamics of Open Source software in general and Linux evolution in particular.

The Amarok project has announced an artwork contest for their upcoming live CD, Amarok Live, for fancy new version 1.4.

An authenticated user can crash MySQL through invalid parameters to the date_format function.

Root cause analysisResearchers have demonstrated how to bypass security protections in order to inject potentially hostile code into the kernel of prototype versions of Windows.

[For Admins running a heterogeneous environment. Note: the researcher suggests this does not mean Vista is inherently. Maybe she should have just stuck with saying it's more secure than previous versions. That's been the sound byte for years. - dcparris]

Welcome to our issue number 58 of Fedora Weekly News. Fedora Weekly News Issue 58 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 fedoraproject.org wiki down 2 Updated Fedora Core 6 Schedule 3 Red Hat Survey for Fedora Community 4 No country orders for OLPC laptops 5 What Is Fedora's Prime Directive? 6 Fedora wants to draw in women 7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-07-31 8 Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates 9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News 10 Editor's Blog

The major Web browsers are getting face-lifts as they increasingly become the focal point for handling business transactions and running programs over the Internet rather than simply displaying Web sites.