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Many people encrypt partitions or drives to keep data safe, but if you're looking for something a little simpler but still safe, try using containers.

From the story: "Microsoft: No Office on Linux 'at this time'"

Microsoft Corp. is not going to release a version of its Office suite software for open-source rival Linux, although the company is actively studying how Linux works and how it can integrate with the platform, a Microsoft representative said Wednesday.

Meraka, Translate.org.za, Openlab and other big SA OSS names push the open source agenda at African Computing & Telecommunications Summit (ACT).

Today, at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, a California startup is set to announce a new Web browser based on open source Mozilla technologies, the software at the core of the popular FireFox browser. Dubbed Flock, the new browser is designed to improve the handling of bookmarks, surfing history, blogs, and RSS feeds. The company, also known as Flock, calls it a "social Web browser." ADVERTISEMENT

Already an official Ubuntu support partner, Obsidian Systems will now also offer ImpiLinux support following the recent investment by Mark Shuttleworth into the ImpiLinux company.

Late on the night of 30 September 1997, a group of Microsoft employees strategically placed a large metal likeness of the Internet Explorer logo on the front lawn at Netscape Communications in Mountain View, California – a signal that the browser war was fully ignited.

European Start-Ups in Media and Mobile Technology Use GNOME

Windows and Unix users evaluating Linux should read all studies on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), even those from Microsoft, according to Linux champion Novell. Brian Green, Novell's director of solutions management, has urged potential customers to "get the big picture" even though TCO reports sponsored by Microsoft quote selectively on the performance of Linux. Green noted Novell had also quoted from the same reports used by Microsoft in an attempt to further Linux.

Company to Extend Leading Product Line With Commercial-Grade Quality Linux Device Software Platform for Consumer Devices

A British specialist in IT security has been appointed to monitor Microsoft's compliance with the European Commission's antitrust verdict

World-Leading Device Software Provider Enables Manufacturers to Address Critical Security Infrastructure Requirements of Emerging Device Applications and Services

If you’re building web applications with Perl, the popular Template Toolkit provides tools to construct programs faster. Guru Randal Schwartz describes the Template Toolkit and how he uses it to manage his company’s web site in this four-part series.

Cape Town's back-end woes come to an end as it moves over to Linux for its Oracle database.

Here, let’s see how to use CVS and SVN to access the development tree of a few notable projects. (Jeremy Garcia is the founder and administrator of LinuxQuestions.org, a free, friendly, and active Linux community. )

Canonical, sponsors of the Ubuntu Linux project are announcing the Ubuntu Partnership Programme. Designed to recognise and reward expertise and experience, the Partnership Programme is open to both businesses and individuals who have shown technical and commercial success with Ubuntu Linux.

Those who write for, support, install and maintain the widely used open source MySQL database platform will be interested in the first release candidate of the forthcoming MySQL 5.0, launched last week.

I would like to invite you to join Anthony Towns and myself on IRC this Sunday, October 9 from 0000-0200 UTC in the #debian-tech channel on irc.oftc.net.

Brings extensive Linux, collaboration experience to leader in open source groupware; Company also adds channel executive for EMEA

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer is in town and signing deals with senior members of government. The SA government, however, has a declared open source strategy, so why are they entertaining Mr Ballmer?