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Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 has been released. This update fixes a publicly disclosed denial of service weakness. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

The bugfixes previously planned for Firefox 1.5.0.3 were shifted to 1.5.0.4, and a quick update was released shortly after the recent 1.5.0.2 release to address the publicly reported issue.

Coverity, Inc., makers of the world's most advanced and scalable source code analysis solution, today announced that as a result of their contract with US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the biggest X Window System security vulnerability of the last six years was identified and fixed.

Gartner has said Windows Vista is unlikely to ship before the second quarter of 2007, pegging it for launch in April next year, with "broad availability" not expected until at least the second quarter. For good measure, Gartner noted that Microsoft "consistently misses target dates for major operating system releases."

LXer Feature: 25-Apr-06

This article is a response to "Microsoft Is Playing A Dangerous Game... One Which Linux Could Lose", which appeared on LXer a few days ago.
In his article, Ken Starks argues Linux could lose because of the anti-Linux tactics of Microsoft, including Port25 and DRM-technology. While Ken and I are both lobbying for Linux, and I think the same about DRM, I don't agree that Linux will lose. I feel obliged to inform US citizens about a bigger danger: The US as a country will lose because of Microsoft tactics, and not Linux. Most important, they will lose because of DRM.

In typical fashion on a quiet, overcast weekend afternoon, I paid a visit to my local bookstore and browsed through some of my favorite magazines. This time around, Linux Format (Issue 78, April) had some interesting trend bits on the Linux front.

"All About the Apps" puts the spotlight on the classics of KDE's applications as well as new and promising applications from the KDE community that can make your KDE desktop more productive. We will also keep you informed about development in current KDE 3.5 series.

It’s supposed to protect you from predators spying on your computer habits, but a bill Microsoft Corp. helped write for Oklahoma will open your personal information to warrantless searches, according to a computer privacy expert and a state representative.

Is this the same Oklahoma that sits just North of Texas in the United States, or some other Oklahoma in a parallel universe? Oklahomans need to burn up the telephone wires to some legislators! - dcparris

Red Hat India announced that Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has chosen to implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its desktops and servers. LIC will migrate all its mission critical business applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, across all its locations in India and abroad.

Bill Hilf, Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, is charging ahead by looking for ways his company can work with open source that he says are beneficial to all. At LinuxWorld Conference & Expo - Boston 2006 last week, Hilf said Microsoft is launching a Web site solely for the purpose of communicating Microsoft's own open source activities.

Bill Hilf spoke with SearchWinIT.com's news director Margie Semilof about Microsoft's activities in community development.

If you have a couple of old Linux boxes sitting around, then you've got the makings of a supercomputer. Dust them off, install Secure Shell (SSH) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), and start your complex algorithms.

If you have a couple of old Linux boxes sitting around, then you've got the makings of a supercomputer. Dust them off, install Secure Shell (SSH) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), and start your complex algorithms.

On tech.moneycontrol.com, reader Aalaap Ghag has collected two ways to reduce memory usage in Firefox.

In his post, he links to two articles: One about a tweak in the preferences and one about http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/04/04/reducing-your-memory..."> extensions .

Macraigor Systems has ported its proprietary OCDemon on-chip debug technology to the Linux platform using the newly introduced usb2Demon and debug interface.

This new port gives engineers who prefer developing on a Linux host platform the high speed and flexibility of using the usb2Demon to successfully debug, test and program the target system.

The newest Xitimonitor 'browser study' (French) shows, Firefox has reached a market share of 20% across Europe, and roughly 16% in North-America. Furthermore, when comparing this study to previous ones, one can conclude, people also start using Firefox at their work more and more. Firefox is used the least in the Ukraine and the Netherlands, but there's a hopefull sign from the Netherlands: Finally, after looking like it was cancelled, it was decided, a full page Firefox add will appear (Dutch) in a free newspaper. The money for this add is collected amongst individuals and corporate sponsors.

Korea’s anti-trust regulator Wednesday (Ed: Dec 7th) imposed a fine of roughly 33 billion won ($31.9 million) on Microsoft for its violation of the nation’s fair trade rule.

Microsoft will be required to offer two versions of Windows within six months - one stripped of thus far incorporated programs (Ed: Messenger and Media Player) and the other that includes most software available here.

[Ed - It's good to see not all governments bend under Microsoft pressure. You may remember MS threatened to withdraw Windows from the Korean market if MS would be found guilty. Please also look at the story "Will Microsoft Pull Out of Korea?" - hkwint]

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The Apache Software Foundation on Thursday released a major upgrade to the hugely popular open-source Apache Web server. New features in Apache 2.2.0 include support for large files and improved caching.

The Australian Information Industry Association appears to have decided to educate the corporate world about the use of open source software - but it doesn't want any media present while it does so.

One year after the debut of Firefox 1.0, and more than 100 million downloads later, Mozilla Corp. today released Firefox 1.5, the latest version of its acclaimed open source Web browser, available now as a free download from http://www.getfirefox.com. Firefox 1.5 builds upon the success of its predecessor to deliver an improved browser with significant performance and usability upgrades, security and privacy enhancements, best-in-class support for Web standards, and greater customization options.

Southern Africa's largest independent medical aid scheme administrator, Medscheme, stopped using Windows and SCO Unix, to adopt an Oracle, Unisys and Suse Linux solution that is expected to save the company around R10 million ($1,5 M) in its first year alone.

One of the most extensive uses of free software in the Italian educational system uses Zope, Plone and Fle3 to run its e-learning portal.