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David Tenser has posted an interview with Mozilla Foundation's User Experience Lead, Mike Beltzner. The interview was conducted over instant messaging sessions during the last week of November. Mike talks about usability studies, design of the Mozilla Developer Central, and the new bookmark system planned for Firefox 2.

Yahoo has added open-source blog publishing software to its Web hosting. The Net giant has struck a deal with WordPress and will add its software alongside proprietary alternative Moveable Type, which whom Yahoo struck a deal last week. The deal is intended to broaden the blogging software options accessible to individuals and companies that use Yahoo to host their websites, the company said.

It comes as no surprise that open source software developers are fixing bugs faster and faster, but the majority of Linux developers' willingness to use proprietary products -- a la the Bitkeeper debacle -- may be more likely to raise eyebrows. Both findings -- that open source developers find and repair severe bugs in less than four hours on average and that 64 percent of OSS developers would purchase a tool for Linux if it worked well even if it was not open source -- come from the Evans Data Fall 2005 developer survey.

From giants such as Sun and Computer Associates to start-ups such as Sourcefire and GroundWorks, companies are now stepping in to the open source market from a variety of directions and perspectives, as evidenced at last week's Interop show in New York City. Jacqueline Emigh reports.

Guardware has release a new version of its anti-porn system which it claims can stop employees viewing sexual content in web browsers, regardless of the source.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) boosts OpenLDAP software. The software shall ease small companies to adopt open source software from which they primarily feel nervous off.

Mandriva and Skype today announce their partnership to provide high-quality voice calling over the Internet using Linux. Mandriva Linux 2006 offers out-the-box use of Skype's popular application. With Mandriva Linux 2006, users will be able to easily make business or personal phones calls all over the world using their computer, while taking advantage of local rates. Customers can connect from PC to PC, PC to landline phone, or PC to mobile phone. Additional features, such as voice mail and call forwarding, are also available.

HP has signed an agreement with Symas Corp. to expand its certification and services for an open source directory across all HP industry-standard platforms.

Symas is a prolific contributor to the open source project, OpenLDAP, which based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Symas' OpenLDAP distribution, Connexitor Directory Services, is said to offer customers fast deployment, easy paths to upgrades and rapid bug fixes.

Leading litigation technology and document management company utilizes DataCore SANmelody(TM) to manage their growing storage needs

RALEIGH – Skanska, a large construction conglomerate based in Sweden, has switched to Red Hat Linux from a Unix solution. By making the switch, Skanska said it expected to reduce costs by 30 percent.

For the Linux distribution Debian 3.1 (also known as "Sarge") the first revision comprising a collection of updates has now been published. Debian 3.1 r1 contains remedies for security problems in particular. The most recent package of patches it contains bears the date of December 14 and removes problems with kernel 2.6.8 that could be used for DoS attacks or to infiltrate code. Over and above these remedies, Debian 3.1 r1 features, for example, solutions to problems to emerge with the networks sniffer Ethereal, to security loopholes in PHPGroupWare or in Mozilla applications.

Nick Wilson and Jed Brown at Performancing built a Firefox extension that launches a blog entry editor and publishes to Blogger, Moveable Type, or WordPress from within the browser.

We've been busy collaborating. The movement is open source culture and we have an issue to prove it.

Who does what with an enterprise IT system can be quite important. This is even more the case given the glut of new regulations and laws governing how businesses are run in a post-Enron/Worldcom world, even if it only means that the right company director can be taken outside and shot. So knowing which people should have access to what systems and trapping the meddlers –whether malicious or incompetent – is now a core component of sound compliance management.

That is one reason why Identity Management systems are now getting to be big business.

Consolidation decreases cost; simplifies product offering for converging carriers

From their book's section on adding your own code to the kernel, the authors demonstrate how device drivers are represented in the filesystem.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.15-rc6 release candidate kernel today, suggesting that the final 2.6.15 was still on track for a release before the end of the year. He described it as "slightly delayed by me being away for a week, and now Andrew is gone, but looking at the changes, they all seem to be pretty trivial". Linus went on to summarize:

"The shortlog really says it all. Apart from some sparse annotations from Al, it's all random small things. But do give it a try, because Santa Claus has his CIA spooks checking y'all out, and naughty people don't get any of the loot."

After reading George Ou's articles Desktop Linux versus Windows XP shootout and Could Desktop Linux really be so slow?, one might consider him a candidate for Microsoft's Get the Facts web page. He's ill informed but might do well as a body double for B.D. Wong. When it comes to PC's, he's over his head.

National Instruments continues its support for Linux as a test and measurement platform by tripling the number of products that can use the operating system to over 200 instruments. NI-DAQmx 8 drivers for Linux support PCI, PCI Express, and PXI bus-based instruments, including data-acquisition, signal conditioning, dynamic signal acquisition, and switching hardware.

Additional new NI instrument drivers for Linux cover digital multimeters, high-speed digitizers, arbitrary waveform generators, and instrument-control devices. National Instruments also now supports Linux installation for select PXI and VXI controllers.

Browser bundling has become popular again. We reported in October that Hewlett-Packard will begin bundling Netscape with its HP and Compaq branded computers in 2006. Now, it seems reports floating around about Dell bundling Firefox on its computers sold in the U.K. are totally true, according to Blake Ross, one of the Firefox developers.