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Well, well, what have we here? SCO has put up its own legal documents page after all. Evidently the generic brand anti-Groklaw websites that coincidentally sprang up just when theirs didn't were not a huge success. So they have put up their own page here: http://www.sco.com/scoip/ All they have there so far are some of the legal documents in all their cases. But Frank Sorenson noticed one little thing: it appears the defenders of their most holy IP grabbed the PDFs from Groklaw and Frank's tuxrocks.com site, without giving us credit for doing the work of obtaining the documents from the court and scanning them to create the PDFs. Oops.

The long awaited 2005.0 release of Gentoo Linux is the first and most prominent news in this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter! Regular visitors to the Gentoo website may have noticed that the PayPal donation button is back, and the Gentoo bugzilla now supports SSL encrypted connections. Other features this week: a developer portrait of UK-based Marcus D. Hanwell, an after-show report from the Open Source Conference in Tokyo held last weekend, and plenty of news from the community, press clippings, developers leaving the project and new ones arriving, and of course the regular sections of bugzilla statistics and security alerts. Enjoy reading!

An interview with Matthew Szulik in India at LinuxAsia 2005.

Leading Asset Management Company to Expand Novell's Award-Winning ZENworks Suite

In this document I will walk you through the process of creating a Debian package for Xandros 3.0.

Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at problems in KDE, MySQL, Perl, Ximian Evolution, GnuPG, OpenSLP, Ringtone Tools, LuxMan, and Ethereal.

Relax, this isn't another newsletter about the latest Microsoft anti-Linux campaign.

The worldwide.kde.org contributors map has hot fresh updates. The contributor map on worldwide.kde.org shows developers, translators, doc writers, artists, packagers and other contributors of KDE in all the world. If you are a contributor to the KDE Project, submit your coordinates.

Adobe has made a download of the Linux version of Adobe Reader 7.0 available on its ftp site. The newly renamed utility handles portable document files (PDFs) deftly, and additionally now allows users to collaborate on projects and provides additional file security at the server-level, according to Adobe.

While XQuery was designed for querying large document bases, it serves as a fine tool for transforming simple documents as well. This article shows how XQuery offers a fast and easy way to scrape HTML pages for the data you need. XQuery is the perfect tool for you if your goal is simplifying complex pages for display on small screens, or extracting elements from multiple pages to aggregate them together on a home-grown portal, or simply extracting data from Web pages because there is no other programmatic way to get the data.

The Open Enterprise Server aims to facilitate migration to Linux.

SCO Group has finally made public the Web site it promised last fall. SCO.com/scoip/ purports to be "The Right Place for SCO Intellectual Property Information."

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for March 24, 2005. We installed some great distros over the past couple of weeks.

We were able to grab screenshots of the following: Solaris 10 CDE 1.6, Solaris 10 JDS 3, K-DEmar 3.0, SphinxOS 4.0 Home Edition, Mandrakelinux 10.2 RC1, Damn Small Linux 1.0 RC1, Momonga Linux 2 beta 1, Kubuntu 5.04 Preview (KDE 3.4), BLAG Linux And GNU 30000 Beta, Mozilla 1.7.5, Linspire Five-0, and Ark Linux 2005.1 (KDE 3.4).

Despite open-source developers' concerns, Free Software Foundation's general counsel predicts no difficulty in moving to third version.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is one of the last application areas in which Linux has little or no impact. The Peerstone Group, a market research firm, found that only two percent of corporations relied on Linux to support their ERP applications in 2004. Yet, recently, a growing number of Linux ERP vendors have emerged. Although obstacles remain, the future of Linux in ERP looks promising.

"Information-technology Promotion Agency(IPA, in pdf), an extra-departmental organization of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan has been supported open source software development. Some efforts are now available: framework for printing, Samba internationalization, a tool for hacking Gtk+, ssh in Java, manuals for OpenOffice.org, and GRASS internationalization."

I have espoused the cause of Ingres for some time and, especially, I have commended Computer Associates' decision to take the Ingres database into the open source community. Now, I dare say that at some point CA will tell me all about its "open source challenge" and how successful that has been in developing new facilities for Ingres. And they will also tell me about how many downloads there have been (though I am cynical about the utility of such a figure). But this article is about one company, Datallegro, which has adopted Ingres as its database.

Linux offers an excellent alternative for businesses looking for something different in an OS. However, Linux with all of its components and options installed can be a massive resource hog. Enter "thin clients," pared-down Linux installations, which offer a streamlined OS for lighter system usage.

Some developers are concerned that the introduction of the third version of the GNU General Public License could split the free software world - but the FSF is confident these fears are unfounded.

I found the GNOME desktop more appealing than KDE until I found Mandrakelinux 10. Mandrake looked good to me, from its fonts to its slide bars. On the functional side, it had some wonderful system administration tools, graphical and centralized. But for some reason Mandrake 10 didn't find my home wireless network. That led me to search for alternatives. I discovered PCLinuxOS, a free LiveCD distribution originally based on Mandrake.