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IBM next week will release a major revision of its DB2 database, providing fresh ammunition in the ongoing battle for supremacy in the database marketplace.

Linux users are at risk from serious security vulnerabilities in components used to view graphics and handle archives, according to researchers. The security holes, found in the imlib graphics library and the LHA archive tool, can be exploited via a specially crafted bitmap image or an LHarc-format archive to take over a Linux system.

Sybase has released a free production database for Linux.

Orbital Sciences senior engineer Heather Holst and her colleagues are smart. That's to be expected, since they work for a company that designs and tests rockets. This highly intelligent group of people created makeshift clusters in order to perform a demanding simulation technique called Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). There was only one problem....

After private sector, it is the turn of public sector to witness a new revolution called "Linux in Government" in South Asia. Many governments in this region are going for Linux-based solutions to save costs, consolidate workloads, increase efficiency and enact e-government transformation. Worldwide, more than 200 IBM government customers have embraced Linux to gain maximum benefits.

Hewlett-Packard made quite a splash when they announced that they are offering Linux on the nx5000, one of the latest HP laptop models. HP also sponsored aKademy, the KDE Community World Summit as a Platinum sponsor. This included a loan of 24 laptops for usage in the tutorial rooms as well as a special deal for KDE contributors to buy the nx5000 model at a reduced price. The aKademy press team arranged a meeting with Thomas Schneller, Manager Software R&D and asked him about this venture from HP.

The Wisdom Project combines the free exchange of open source politics with discussion board and wiki technology to create an idea development environment unlike any other. Using a specially designed rating system, members identify and develop the best “nuggets of wisdom” from free and open discussions.

Unisys is offering Red Hat Inc.'s Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its entire line of Unisys servers, the two companies announced Tuesday.

IBM Corp. next week will begin shipping the second generation of its rack-mounted dual processor servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) Opteron microprocessor. The new server, called the eServer 326, will be IBM's first product specifically designed to support the upcoming dual-core Opteron processors that AMD is expected to ship next year.

A previous project leader for the Debian distribution, and senior strategist in charge of open source for Hewlett Packard, Bruce Perens currently works as an independent consultant.

How to use command-line tools and basic GraphViz utilities to produce graphs both simple and complex.

in recently months, the Open Source Development Lab (ODSL), a nonprofit consortium that oversees Linux development, has imposed new policies that -- at first glance, anyway -- seem at odds with the very notion of "open."

Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 3.4.2, officially released on September 2'nd. Mark explains, "there are no new features in this release, but there are a lot of improvements for various languages and architectures." This second maintenance release follows GCC 3.4.1 by two months, as seen on the official release timeline.

Though its next official full release is still months away, enterprise Linux player Red Hat is rolling out the latest incremental update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 product. The latest features are all about security. The update also marks the third incremental update to RHEL3 since it was released in November of 2003.

Some people feel that the Reiser4 file semantics will present problems for the Linux community. In a nutshell, every file now looks like a directory and can be opened as a directory. The names in that directory are not new files but metadata associated with the file, as documented by Hans Reiser on the Namesys site. The immediate response in the community has been that this is too big a change and should be withdrawn. I humbly propose that this is a challenge we should face head on now or we may not have an opportunity to do so in the future.