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Welcome to our issue number 7 of Fedora Weekly News

Why enterprise-class open source? Because it works. Think Linux. Think Apache. Think JBoss. These and other open source projects are transforming enterprise IT by leveraging the participatory nature of open source to deliver products and services with superior capabilities and lower prices.

In strategy similar to that taken by rival Red Hat, Novell plans OpenSuse effort to let outsiders contribute to development of OS.

New SPECjbb2005 Benchmarks Show That JRockit Provides the Fastest Per-CPU Results of a Java Virtual Machine for Server Side Applications

Messaging software firm Scalix, which provides e-mail and calendaring systems for the Linux operating system, has moved into the wireless market with a new launch.

As Linux and open-source vendor Novell moves to wind down its relationship with Open-Xchange and the open-source Open-Xchange collaboration server, Novell's primary competitor, Red Hat, is quickly moving in to take its place.

Novell has launched a new introductory Linux training course. The course is intended for academic environments, with the aim of giving educational institutions a pathway to open source training, and to promote Linux among students. A special effort is being made in Malaysia. The courses include the fundamentals, administration and advanced administration of SuSE Linux. Novell also said that it would be donating US$1.5 million in SuSE Linux software and training materials to educational institutions worldwide.

The central government is to take the initiative to set up a centre next month in Chennai dedicated to creating open source software, said Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology.

IBM has extended support for a development tool after users cried out against the company mothballing it and revoking its open source status. The controversy revolves around the Cgidev02 tool which is part of IBM's Easy400 software suite for the iSeries that lets developers web-enable software written in COBOL or RPG.

South African open source Asterisk users can now terminate calls locally using local bandwidth.

"GNU awk, more affectionately known as gawk, is a compatible version of the awk language--the language is open standard and other awk implementations exist--and it continues to be maintained and developed by Arnold Robbins. Arnold is in fact a long time proponent of open source, has worked with GNU for many years and written numerous books on sed, awk, and other open source technologies..."

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Zlib could allow attackers to crash zlib-enabled applications.

Longtime Red Hat Linux users are feeling like playing the field these days, and quite a few will be browsing the SuSE distribution at Novell's booth next week at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.

With OpenOffice.org Writer you can create any kind of form from simple questionnaires to sophisticated interactive tests. Here's how to create a simple quiz using the form tools, and how to add interactivity to it with a couple of macros.

Start-ups see future in open-source services. Also: European law could mean Linux lawsuits.

A proposed European law on intellectual-property infringement could allow SCO to sue Linux users in a criminal court, experts warn

Novell has bustled a request for judgement in front of the Utah Judge responsible for hearing its defense against SCO's copyright suit. It puts the controversial question of who owns the Unix copyrights foursquare, and is well armed enough, it hopes, to deliver a knock out blow.

Job cuts are expected to save profit-challenged Linux booster up to $4 million per quarter.

A report from last week's open-source software seminar in Amman.

Minimo 0.1, for mobile devices running Windows CE, offers many of the features in Firefox such as tabbed browsing, support for plug-ins, and an interface written in Extensible User Interface Language, says Chris Hofmann, Mozilla's engineering director. Mozilla hasn't set a timetable for Minimo's general availability.