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The founder of the free software Richard Stallman will hold a two-hour lecture in Bulgaria.

If you're really new to Linux, then ReallyLinux.com will help you navigate the sometimes choppy, sometimes murky waters of change. The site bases its content largely on information from the book "Linux For the Rest of Us," and provides beginner help on a variety of topics, plus a tightly focused selection of message board topics.

Linux has been catching on especially quickly with governmental agencies and national systems like the German railway, says Scott Handy, IBM's vice president of worldwide Linux. "It's really exploding at this point."

In Part 1 we reviewed hardware options, which wireless utilities should be present, how to use Windows drivers, and how to be open to connect to any available wireless access point. Today we'll cover configurations on Red Hat- and Debian-type systems, basic security, and hardware discovery.

In this third of a series of articles on training in Linux, I want to look at the certification programs available. In Linux, we are very fortunate to have at least two excellent high quality programs with high credibility. They are the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) from Red Hat, and the Linux Professional Institute's LPI programme. There are also two other programmes in existence: SAIR, which seems to have fallen off the radar (not much is happening on their web site, and SAGE, which is a Unix certification.

It seems to be an exciting time for *nix operating systems, with a number of them recently releasing new versions that bring the addition of expanded features and claims of improved performance. If you're using GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, or Solaris as a database server, you've probably recently considered an upgrade or switch to another OS in that list due to marketing hype and hearsay. This article will show you how to benchmark operating system performance using MySQL on these OSes so you can find out for yourself if you're missing out. While this may not necessarily be indicative of overall system performance or overall database application performance, it will tell you specifically how well MySQL performs on your platform.

Lots of startup projects on the big online free software repositories have been abandoned right after being created, or linger in alpha stage for many years. I have founded four open source projects, of which two have been successful, while the other two just stopped and faded away. From that experience, here's some practical advice on how to make your project more well-known, how to motivate others to join your project, and how to make sure it stays alive and active for a long time -- maybe even reaching a 1.0 release (which should be part of every project's goal, should it not?).

Open-source software's influence continues to spread worldwide, but the technology's greatest challenges lie ahead as it's asked to take on an increasing number of business functions. Business customers want a long-term road map, even though open-source leaders aren't completely comfortable with the idea of looking that far ahead.

One of the main reasons for the Firefox browser's successful seizure of market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the desire to escape the inundation of PC-slowing spyware. However, spyware experts indicate that with its increased popularity, Firefox itself will become a target for spyware creators, who are already poking at the open source browser alternative.

Sun Microsystems is a company that's made good use of its visionary impulses to survive against bigger rivals. So it's fitting that Jonathan Schwartz is the company's No. 2 executive.

Data Center Virtualization Software Company to Participate in Lab's Data Center Linux Working Group

In the '70s TV show "Happy Days," the character Fonzie was so cool that he could make a dead jukebox play just by giving it a thump in the right spot. If Fonzie were working on computers today, he'd probably use some of these tricks for getting a reluctant hard drive to come across with its data.

I am a systems administrator for a large company with 150 locations and 15,000 employees. My company's Linux deployment started with one project and 12 servers; a year later we're up to 45 servers, and soon will have more than 300 desktop users when we convert an existing set of Windows workstations to Linux. To manage this growing Linux environment, I rely on many open source applications.

I've reported in Windows IT Pro UPDATE several times over the years about Linux and its potential to unseat Windows Server as the most used enterprise OS. As a general rule, each January seems to bring a collection of "This Will Be the Year of Linux" stories, typically from analysts who've been bowled over by the Linux hype. To be fair, I've always assumed that Linux and Windows would some day run neck-and-neck in the server world, with Linux's perceived security, cost, and reliability advantages as the major reasons. Also, the past few years have been tough on Microsoft, as the company has suffered through a mind-boggling series of security snafus.

Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories banded about by critics of open source

According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project leader elections should begin "nine weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately."

The European Commission's requirement that Microsoft license certain of its communication protocols will do little for competition in the workgroup server market if a draft license proposed by Microsoft is accepted, open source software advocates say.

PalmSource is getting ready to reveal its Linux plans.

There's so much to love about open-source technology that oftentimes the downside aspects aren't a hot topic. But open-source applications need as much attention as any other enterprise systems as there is substantial risks to be respected. The SCO Group, which filed a $1 billion lawsuit against IBM claiming Big Blue infringed its intellectual-property rights in Linux, likely represents just the beginning of potential litigation involving open-source software.