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Novell is continuing its embrace of the open-source community with new hires and the promise of even greater integration with key open-source projects.

Getting the free and open source message to users, particularly school-going youths and their teachers in a vast country like Namibia, is not the easiest task. SchoolNet, however, has come up with an innovative approach to the challenge and has produced the first in a new series of comic strips promoting FOSS.

Ututo-e is a Gentoo-based distribution developed in Argentina. Of all the x86 distributions listed on DistroWatch, Ututo-e is the only distribution endorsed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Since he first noticed Ututo-e while visiting Argentina last August, Richard Stallman has described it as "the only free GNU/Linux distro I know of" -- an endorsement that promises to boost its user base the way that John F. Kennedy's endorsement of the James Bond books boosted their sales. In addition, the FSF hosts Ututo-e on its FTP site.

Jeremy Allison, a lead developer on the Samba project, has left his job at Hewlett-Packard Co. in order to go to work for Novell, effective this morning.

Software company adds another open-source luminary to its staff. Jeremy Allison says, "These guys know a lot about file sharing."

If you live in or near the Pacific Northwest, you should be in Bellingham, Washington, this Saturday.

Widespread dissatisfaction with current e-mail systems, particularly Microsoft Exchange and Outlook is spurring platform and e-mail server changes, according to Julie Hanna Farris, an electronic messaging innovator and founder of Scalix Inc., a messaging system vendor. In this setting, e-mail on Linux is shaping up to become the killer app in the enterprise application stack, said Farris in this interview about current and future e-mail trends. Also, e-mail client software (think Outlook) may be on the way out, pushed aside by Web-based e-mail systems, or Webmail. Farris has honed her e-mail trend intelligence gathering and prediction skills over 17 years in messaging. Besides Scalix, she was a founding executive for onebox.com, which was acquired by Openwave, and companies whose enterprise portal software was acquired to became Sun JavaMail. She was a marketing executive at IBM/Lotus and began her career at BellSouth.

OpenLaszlo 3.0 provides two ways to deploy applications and features Unicode support and a new drawing API to support charting and graphing.

With NetWare usage continuing to decline, Novell is making Linux and "identity-driven computing" the focal points at this year's annual BrainShare user conference. CEO Jack Messman talked about his company's strategy, its efforts to court Windows users and recent shake-ups in Novell's executive ranks.

From the creator of tinyminds.org and linuxfoo.org comes a new website designed to make it easy to find different Linux distributions and tools.

Venture capitalists are again embracing open-source technology companies, and a natural question may be whether some of them have perhaps lost their minds. [Free registration required]

" Firefox and Thunderbird Garage," by Chris Hofmann, Marcia Knous, and John Hedtke, can help make a reader into a Mozilla master. The book contains clear directions, informative explanations, thoughtful commentary, helpful images, and entertaining eccentricities. From installation to advanced configuration, it addresses important issues with relevant details.

In this interview, Stuart Cohen, CEO of the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs), discusses the OSDL's goals, initiatives, projects, and test facilities, and how the growing prominence of embedded Linux interfaces with the organization's goal of being the "center-of-gravity" for Linux.

The UK's premier open source event takes place at the Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, on 25 June. With a community - not corporate - focus, LugRadio Live is your chance to have a laugh and a beer with other open source users and developers. There'll be Linux LAN gaming, a live recording of the open source radio show LugRadio and talks from speakers

For Linux diehards, what could be sweeter than the image of a pie in Bill's eye? Maybe the statements of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, speaking at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas last week: "We will add support for non-Windows virtual machines running on our Virtual Server, including Linux."

Red Hat India, a provider of open source solutions has launched a Tamil version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system in the city today. The company already has local language operating system software in Bangla, Punjabi, Hindi and Gujarati.

LinuxQuestions.org has released the first live LQ Radio interview. The interview features Tom Adelstein and Sam Hiser. Topics covered include an in-depth look at the Sun Linux strategy, current trends in the Linux market, thoughts on Novell and Red Hat, Linux OEM preloads, the importance of open document formats, Linux in emerging areas, Open Sourcing OS/2, Linux standards and much more. Total running time is 1:16.

Every organization understands the importance of using a firewall to protect its assets. But what happens if someone finds a hole in the wall? What if the infiltrator is actually someone from within your organization who wants to access information that he shouldn't? To cover those contingencies, you need an intrusion detection system (IDS) to complement your firewall. Fortunately, with a minimum amount of time and money you can set up an IDS with open source tools such as Snort, Shadow, and ACID.

New offerings make Linux, if not yet a first-class platform citizen, then at least one that's on the road to parity in terms of application compatibility.

VC firms are again embracing open-source companies, and a natural question may be whether some of them have perhaps lost their minds.