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OpenID is an open decentralized digital identity system that has been gaining traction in recent months. It implements a solution to some everyday headaches such as single-sign-on, but it does not address related issues like privacy, trust, spam prevention, or message authentication. OpenID uses a multiple-stage sign-on process, but don't let that discourage you. As an end user, the benefits are stacked in your favor.

Trying to snatch IBM's crown?Comment Oracle and IBM are both competitors and partners. In the case of databases they are certainly rivals, with Oracle 10g and DB2 going head-to-head at many sites. However, it has occurred to me to wonder if Oracle is seeking to rival IBM's crown as the owner of the most different databases.…

An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting the software giant's go-ahead on certain patent-related issues.

[Grrrr.... patents! Holding up progress all because of stupid patents. What a waste! - dcparris]

Today, I offer a shopping list with plenty of free programs as well as some of the name-brand stuff.

[The guy actually referred to Ubuntu Linux, and not just Firefox and OpenOffice.org. Wait, I think I hear the world waking up... - dcparris]

The Countryside Council for Wales has hired European open source service provider Sirius Corporation to help extend its OpenBSD security system’s integration with its Cisco-based network.

Open Source business intelligence vendor JasperSoft wasn't always an open source vendor. JasperSoft made the decision to become open source just over two-and-a-half years ago and since then has become a leading open source business intelligence vendor.

A survey of 140,000 small to medium-sized business (SMB) users has revealed that the Mozilla Firefox browser is now almost on equal footing with Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the SMB market sector. What's more, the gap is narrowing dramatically every month.

The Google Summer of Code is running again this year.

A critical flaw in the popular encryption software GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) allows attackers to launch a phishing-style attack that inserts text appearing to part of a trusted email, Core Security Technologies announced today.

NVIDIA has graced us with new drivers that support their latest and greatest GPUs. Here are the release notes and relates links.

[I really don't see anything gracious about non-free drivers. However, since we seem to be so dependent on the driver gods, here's the latest non-free driver from Nvidious. - dcparris]

LXer Feature: 09-Mar-2007

Don Parris looks at the Debian Installer, providing something of an overview of the installation process, revealing one or two potential pain points and what the Debian Installer team is doing to improve it.

Red Hat has partnered with Exadel, a provider of rich application components, for mature, Eclipse-based developer tools for building service-oriented architecture (SOA) and rich, Web 2.0 applications to Red Hat's integrated platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat said the move marks the first time that a high caliber set of Eclipse-based developer tools will be available in open source.

As Second Life strains to keep up with recent popularity, InformationWeek looks at the real-world technology foundations of the make-believe world, and developer Linden Lab's plans to stay on top of growth.

SugarCRM is opening an office in Dublin as part of a push into Europe.

Raleigh software company Red Hat has launched operations in Mexico City in an effort to boost the company's growth throughout Latin America.

Live from the 1st WorldVistA Education Conference and Seminar at Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is a 3 day education event being put on byworldvista.org Highlights so far, Peter Bodke just demonstrated his VistA demonstration appliance version 1.0 that is available on Sourceforge. This has both the client and server available on a Windows machine via virtualization. This is so far not intended to be a production system but it has all the configuration details done out of the box. More information about the conference as it occurs.

The National Convention on Free Software held at University of Hyderabad called up for major changes in the current Government policies in order to speed up dissemination of knowledge in the Indian economy.

Despite the launch of a new version late last year, Microsoft's browser software, Internet Explorer, has continued to decline in popularity.

When asked to explain what open source software is, most people are likely to rattle off a list of practical characteristics of the software itself.

A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.