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Recently Linux Business Week ran a story entitled "Cherokee Indians To Encircle Open Source? Or How the GPL Might Wind Up with Arrows Sticking in It." Luckily, author Maureen O'Gara seems to have the story all wrong.

Connecting your Linux VM to the company network and to rest of the world.

There are a lot of good links to security information at WBGlinks.net, a site whose self-proclaimed mission is to prevent the spread of FUD, because there are just too many "naive people" online and not enough computer security experts.

KOffice is built on KDE. This advantage brings enormous potential in terms of integration, performance, scalability, and with the coming full support for the OASIS Open Document Format, even portability. All these factors are vital for business deployments. The KOffice team is looking for contributors and developers to significantly increase and utilize the potential of KOffice even further.

More than 60 per cent of European software developers believe that using open source software can have significant benefits, newly published research has shown. However, the survey of more than 1,000 European developers by BEA Systems also found that software engineers see significant barriers to widespread implementation.

A new series on setting up a Linux VM on your workplace desktop to help make the switch to a pure Linux desktop.

I bought my Apple Powerbook G4 in May 2002 after finding out it ran a *nix variant. The 'it just works' of Apple's Mac OS X was very tempting, but I didn't want to be without the open source applications I had come to know and love. To the rescue came the DarwinPorts project, which gives you the tools to install open source software onto your computer easily.

To use Linux on a bigger scale, companies will need more reasons than low licence fees. Although Linux gained some acceptance last year—mainly among cash-strapped organisations and government agencies—its adoption was restricted to corporate servers.

To push research forward, scientists need to draw from the best data and innovations in their field. Much of the work, however, is patented, leaving many academic and nonprofit researchers hamstrung. But an Australian organization advocating an open-source approach to biology hopes to free up biological data without violating intellectual property rights.

Pervasive has announced that Pervasive Postgres (its version of the open source PostgreSQL) will be generally available next month. There are a number of interesting things about this announcement.

We are delirious with joy, or maybe it is just that we've spent too long staring at the screen. . . . Whatever, we just found the coolest hack that you just have to check out!

Asa Dotzler's weblog has a posting answering questions about how the Mozilla Foundation makes its software releases happen. It provides an interesting read for anyone interested in Mozilla's release process.

An open source group has posted free PBX software that lets businesses create their own phone switches from standard Linux servers - but drawing business customers to the technology could be an uphill effort. Called sipX, the PBX offering is compatible with SIP phones and media gateways that can change IP voice to traditional TDM voice and vice versa so calls can be switched onto traditional phone networks.

Review: Novell Linux Desktop 9 is a good fit for non-Windows environments.

Debian From Scratch (DFS) is not everyone's distribution. It's not an easy install. You need to know your hardware. You need to be prepared to take pains. And, at the end of the process, the result looks like any Debian system installed by another, usually easier and quicker, means. So why take the time?

Tridgell to Focus on Leading Development Work for Samba Project That Provides Popular Drop-in Linux Replacement for Windows File and Print Servers

The world's business software giant offers answers to the 10 most frequently asked questions about Linux. What is Oracle's strategy on Linux? What Oracle products are available for Linux? Are all Oracle Database 10g options available on Linux? What distributions of Linux does Oracle support? What is Oracle's position on UnitedLinux? Does Oracle have its own distribution of Linux? How does Oracle contribute to the enhancement of Linux technology? How do I get technical support for the Linux operating system? Why are Linux developers developing their applications using Oracle's software? Does Oracle run parts of its own business on Linux?

The Open Group announced that the source code of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), an industry-standard, vendor-neutral set of distributed computing technologies, is being made available under an Open Source license. The Open Group’s initiative will broaden the use of DCE concepts and components as a vendor-neutral interoperability infrastructure.

The solution to this devastating problem, say Stephen Maurer, Arti Rai, and Andrej Sali in the premier open-access medical journal PLoS Medicine, is to adopt an "open source" approach to discovering new drugs for neglected diseases.

Hamlib allows authors of software such as logging programs, digital communications programs, or those wanting to develop the ultimate radio control software to concentrate on the user interface and the basic function of the program rather than radio control.