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Open source visionary Brian Behlendorf talks about OSS in the enterprise.

This year's 32nd issue of DistroWatch Weekly. plus a section on tips and tricks with Konqueror and Kate.

Only about 2% of the thousands of developers working on open-source software projects are women, a number that women already involved in the open-source movement want to see increased.

Web-based service matches software users with the expertise they need when there is no corporation behind the software.

At the beginning of this year Intel decided to get behind an open-source project called Xen, the end result of which is to develop a virtualisation engine — or hypervisor — designed to allow multiple operating systems to run on a single server. The project came along at the perfect time for Intel — the chipmaker is building Virtualization Technology (VT) into chips beginning this year

Petr Baudis announced the creation of a homepage for git, the directory content manager used to manage the Linux kernel. Git was originally written by Linus Torvalds in early April of 2005 [story], and is now maintained by Junio Hamano [story]. Other online resources available for the tool include atutorial that walks through the process of setting up and using git, aman page, and thegitweb interface providing easy browsing of the many kernel trees managed by git. The new webpage explains:

"GIT falls into the category of distributed source code management tools, similar to Arch or Darcs (or, in the commercial world, BitKeeper).

Red Hat and HP are giving the battle against vulnerabilities top billing at this week's show.

I recently stumbled across a posting on NewsForge about a new (but usable) project. The aspect is simple: a GUI front-end to GNU source-based installations. Personally, I've never got a functional install of Gentoo or SourceMage or Sorcerer or any other source-based distribution, but I've still always been a fan of compiling my own software. It makes me feel more in control, and as kindof a geeky type, it makes me more proud to run that software.

IBM said it will make its Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) framework freely available to help make unstructured data more easily searchable--and findable. The technology will find its way onto the SourceForge open-source repository by the year's end, IBM said. The company already incorporates its UIMA implementation in WebSphere Information Integrator Omnifind Edition, WebSphere Portal Server and Lotus Workplace

ThinkFree today announced the release of the Linux Edition of ThinkFree Office 3. The cross-platform, high-performance office suite offers the best compatibility with Microsoft® Office of any program to date for Linux, Windows, and Macintosh users.

Red Hat plans to debut its Red Hat Certificate System at LinuxWorld this week as part of a broader strategy to build out a robust security platform. The RH server, based on assets that Red Hat acquired in September from America Online’s Netscape Security Solutions arm, will manage user identities and offer strong authentication, single sign-on and token management using X.509 certificates, LDAP and PKI security technologies

Jason Schultz's "What every open source project should know about patents" was the last session I got to attend at this year's OSCON, and I'm really glad I did. Even though I knew the most crucial things about patents, there were a number of things that Jason managed to clue me in on

Day three of Linux 2005 began with a long introduction to Xen 3, presented by Ian Pratt from the University of Cambridge. Xen is a virtual machine monitor. The concept of a virtual machine comes from the realisation that most computers only use a fraction of their CPU most of the time. If you could partition the resources of a single machine and allow it to pretend to be two or more systems, then this would be more efficient

Analysis: This summer's LinuxWorld will feature more in the way of wheeling and dealing than technical breakthroughs and changes.

Embedded Linux powered 14 percent of smartphones shipped worldwide in Q1 of 2005, up 412 percent from 3.4 percent in Q1-04, according to Gartner. Windows Mobile Smartphone shipments also grew, rising 50 percent from a 2.9 share in 1Q-04 to 4.5 percent in 1Q-05.

Last week, LinuxDevices.com profiled the Aeronix Zipit, a $99 instant messaging device marketed to teenagers, but appropriated by Linux hackers for a variety of embedded projects. Today, we're pleased to offer a followup conversation with Ralph Heredia, who conceived and led the creation of the Zipit.

Company is answering challenge from Actuate's open-source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project.

Hoping to stem the tide of students freely sharing copyrighted content over campus networks, the University of California (UC) system has selected a music and video service that supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux to provide music and video downloads for its approximately 200,000 student population, according to TheKompany.com, which introduced the service last December.

Linux might thrive on dispersed development, but Intel has centralized its push to support the operating system in an effort to see where it should go next.

So Linux is making its mark around the globe (see stories). But is it really making a difference? Well, Microsoft has had to offer a stripped-down, lower-priced version of Windows to compete with Linux. Many governments are putting Linux (and open-source software in general) on their short list for IT acquisitions. And Linux is being customized for local needs by local companies