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Boutique services company MozSource now offers e-mail technical support services for the Mozilla Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client.

The same week in November that Kmart announced it was buying Sears, a start-up Java infrastructure company offered developers the blue light special of a full J2EE stack with the low, low price of $0.

This is an unusual article in the "My workstation OS" series. It's not about using a specific OS distribution. Indeed it's about not using any OS distribution at all. For many years now I've installed my OS from the sources. Although this is not an easy nor fast way to get an OS installed, it's the best way for getting a fully customized system that fits any individual needs and desires.

Some useful information for sure, but not enough is provided about the TCP/IP stack for embedded systems.

It's time to look back on the events that shaped the free and open source software world in 2004. And why not -- you expect this kind of story on December 31, right? Well, alrighty then. Here, in rough chronological order, are our Top Nine.

President Chavez issued a decree this week which says that Venezuela’s public administration will switch over to use so-called Open Source software, such as the Linux operating system, over the course of the next two years. Chavez had announced his intention to issue such a decree a few months ago.

While open source software such as Linux gained greater acceptance this year among cash-strapped companies and government organisations here, its adoption has largely been restricted to corporate servers for the longest time. That is set to change next year, as open source software among the masses is set to blossom.

At first glance, the upcoming OSDL (Open Source Development Lab) Linux Summit looks more or less like any other industry conference. Actually, though, organizers of the summit--set for January 31 to February 2, 2005 in Burlingame, CA--followed "exactly the opposite" course of action in putting together the first-time event, according to Nelson Pratt, the OSDL’s director of marketing.

Part 3 explores different scenarios for updating and/or replacing the root filesystem, the kernel image or even the bootloader on our embedded development system.

CNET News.com has an article about the plans to increase the usage share of Mozilla Firefox over the next year. The report features little new insight but does reveal that the Mozilla Foundation plans to hire full-time employees to work on the technology evangelism programme. The second page of the article has a truly terrible analogy between the security claims of the Mozilla Foundation and Microsoft and the anti-terrorism pitches of the two major US Presidential Election candidates.

I've been running the recently released Deluxe Edition of Xandros Desktop OS for the past week. Xandros 3 has proven to be all that I hoped for, and more. This release should prove a good fit for many, combining the ease of use and elegant good looks that Xandros brings to the table with the underlying power and stability of Debian.

While high-performance clusters often provide the most cost-effective way to speed up your calculations, building your first cluster can be a frustrating experience. But it doesn't have to be. Here are ten tips to help you get started.

The Energy Department has contracted SGI to develop an open-source version of its high-performance computer-testing software, according to Steve Reinhardt, principal engineer for the Mountain View, Calif., company.

Security, Web services and Linux jobs continue to dominate the IT help wanted ads and are projected to remain among the hottest skill and certification areas in 2005, according to research firms that specialize in tracking skills and certifications.

Expect Additional SugarCRM Product Offerings With Low TCO and Core Business Management Functionality in 2005

Follow these steps and have your users logging on at their Linux/Unix desktops with their Windows accounts.

Without question, open source is one of the most important forces in enterprise IT. Apache is still the reigning champion of Web server software. Red Hat and MySQL are two of the most-watched software vendors today. And the success of Linux is such that even Microsoft, once considered the unstoppable juggernaut of the OS market, is being forced to play defense.

"IE has vulnerabilities that cannot be ignored, but with these vulnerabilities come fixes," notes Jupiter Research senior analyst Joe Wilcox. "If you fix the browser enough, it becomes more secure. So whether one is more vulnerable or not we will only see over time."

A great gift was left under the Christmas tree for the Linux community this past weekend. Referred to by its creator Linus Torvalds as "Woozy Numbat," the present is otherwise known as the 2.6.10 Linux Kernel release.

Welcome to this year's 51st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Piotr Roszatycki reported that he has created preliminary packages for PHP5 already. We would like to thank all contributors and translators of this online resource who have helped provide high quality information to our readers. We are seeking more contributions in order to be able to maintain DWN in 2005 as well.