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BRIEFS from Apple's trademark enforcement department have written angry letters to an open source group over the ipodder.

Ipodder Lemon was free software distributed under a GPL licence to manage podcasts. M'Learned friends from Apple have sent a cease and desist notice to the the ipodder code writers saying that they were "decieving users" that the software was connected to Apple's iPod device.

RealNetworks patched up a critical flaw on Thursday. The patch covers three flaws that would have allowed malicious hackers to take control of a user's computer through the Real player. The problem was reported to the company more than four months ago.

To the faithful, Oracle’s acquisition of Innobase — a significant MySQL partner — is proof of what Oracle has believed all along: that MySQL’s success is a threat to Oracle’s database business and it’s only a matter of time before the two database vendors collide.

A couple of weeks ago, I took the second preview release of the Mozilla XForms Project for a spin, demonstrating how it could be used along with the FormsPlayer plug-in for Internet Explorer to create cross-browser XForms. Unfortunately, despite all the promise of that preview, things are suddenly looking very grim for XForms support in Mozilla.

... several options to increase LOGFED’s deployment agility, including replacing the mainframe with a deployable “zFrame” machine running Linux with an OS390 ...

Comprehensive Wiki Guide on Linux Games including: Reviews, Previews, Game Lists, Game Ports, Emulators & Virtual Machines, Gaming Sites, Hardware Help, Howtos, Installation etc...

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Last month, Tom Adelstein over on sister site LinuxDevCenter asked the question Why do people switch to Linux? The results of a survey of readers on lxer.com were presented responding to that question, and the results were rather surprising, particularly how little anti-Microsoft feelings had to do with the decision, relative to other factors.

ahz says: "we use GNOME at our office, and I really like it". But, he has some other comments you should read.

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Gnome versus KDE on the Corporate Desktop

Plupii, which is also known as Lupper, hasn’t spread much and isn’t seen as much of a threat.

One outcome of the cooperation between OpenSync and KDE developers agreed upon this summer is that the OpenSync Framework will soon replace the mechanisms to date for synchronizing PIM data between KDE and mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. To achieve this OpenSync will be integrated in KDE in such a fashion that its synchronization mechanisms will be available to all applications via a KIO module. With KitchenSync, to be had via KDE's Subversion System, a first application that makes use of OpenSync already exists. In a comparable fashion to Multisync, which is to be found in many distributions, OpenSync is to interact with various applications and devices with the help of plug-ins.

In this article, Bjorn suggests we offer Microsoft a laurel and hearty welcome to Live.com. He must know something about this Achilles heel.

Every time I read an article suggesting that Linux cannot budge Microsoft off the Enterprise Desktop, I have a private laugh. If you knew what I did, you would laugh too. The only problem I can see: It's not a laughing matter.

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South Africans from all eleven official language groups will soon have access to the latest version of OpenOffice.org in their home tongue. Translate.org.za's mammoth translation is scheduled to be released with OpenOffice 2.01. Translations of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are also due for release.

Linux desktop software maker Xandros and Rome-based NoMachine, which specializes in Linux terminal server remote access and management software, Thursday announced they are teaming up to build new Linux thin-client platforms.

The ‘Give me Red’ advertisement campaign emphasises the brand recall that Eveready has in India. For its mission-critical ERP too, the company chose a ‘Red’ platform—Linux server software from Red Hat. The need to integrate and streamline processes was the reason for moving from a solution developed in-house. Eveready has nine factories, 14 sales offices and 44 godowns, and the requirement was to connect all these to the company’s headquarters.

Although Fedora comes with an excellent graphical tool to manage your users (system-config-users), there are times, for example when administering a server through SSH, that user management has to be done from command line.

All operations can be done using the following commands: id, useradd, usermod, userdel, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, passwd

These exist in every Linux distribution with slight differences in each command’s supported options. The following info applies to Fedora Core and other Red Had based distros.

Ninety scientists, developers, and engineers convened from all around the globe for the October 2005 meeting of the Gelato Federation (http://www.gelato.org), an international technical organization dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel® Itanium® processor.

"Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard presses and mouse clicks from one computer to another relaying the screen updates back in the other direction, over a network." -WikiPedia-

This is a mini howto which covers the VNC server’s configuration in brief.


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Cstura writes about his experience with computers and why he chose Linux.

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Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake) daily builds have hit the Ubuntu servers. Dapper's goals: Substantial polish and integration of the existing desktop environment is the primary desktop goal, for both Ubuntu (GNOME) and Kubuntu (KDE). Yes, we've got some screenshots of the first daily build.