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Just one day after Netscape 8 was released, Firefox lead engineer Ben Goodger has posted a live exploit for the browser. The exploit - which reveals a user's Google cookie - is possible because Netscape 8 is based on Firefox 1.0.3 - which has been updated to 1.0.4 because of two serious vulnerabilities.

The IT Productivity Center has released Janco's April Browser Market Share Study. The IT Productivity Center also has its Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Kit and IT Service Management Template featured on this standard setting portal.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 18 -- PathScale, developer of innovative software and hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux® clusters, has announced unprecedented results on industry-standard benchmark tests by its new InfiniPath(TM) cluster interconnect. The InfiniPath HTX(TM) Adapter is a low-latency cluster interconnect for InfiniBand(TM) that plugs into standard HyperTransport technology-based HTX slots on AMD Opteron(TM) processor-based servers. Over 20 leading Linux system vendors around the world have committed to reselling InfiniPath, which is immediately orderable.

An investment venture will try to replicate the model of Gluecode, an open source start-up acquired by IBM, with a fund dedicated solely to open source software.

When developing software, utilizing techniques that save time and give maximum results are always beneficial. The same is true if the software we develop is meant to empower its users to do the same. Kurt Pfeifle submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which illustrates that ISVs shouldnt have to provide 16 different distro/version packages for their application to deploy software on Linux, yet this is becoming commonplace.

The operating system world has been blessed by another regular release of OpenBSD. As usual, the developers have made many enhancements, upgraded ported applications to new versions, and added new software technologies and hardware drivers. OpenBSD is not only highly polished and easy to configure because of its documentation, it's also totally free-as-in-rights. With an obsession with security, freedom of source code, and quality of programming technique, OpenBSD 3.7 continues the legacy established by its previous releases.

PalmSource CEO David Nagel predicted on Thursday that Linux will figure large as broadband wireless services emerge in the next-generation of mobile telephony.

A tour through the V7 ls command.

Planning for the very first O'Reilly European Open Source Convention (EuroOSCON) is underway. The call for participation is now open and speaker proposals are being accepted until May 23.

Concluding our tour of the V7 ls command.

Concluding our look at SUSE Linux, Rob Reilly loads up the latest and greatest and sees what new features--and new gotchas--reside in the 64-bit version of SUSE Linux Professional 9.3.

Can a proprietary Unix be a desktop OS that competes with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux desktops? Although it may lack the visual effects of OS X, and installation is tricky in parts, Irix is a stable desktop OS -- possibly because it runs only on SGI's own hardware.

Microsoft plans to follow its browser rivals and introduce tabbed browsing to its forthcoming Internet Explorer 7.

Till Adam only started hacking on the KDE mail client, KMail, because he wanted some features implemented from the command-line client Mutt. Now he is one of the main developers of the KDE-PIM project, which KMail is part of. KDE Dot News caught up with Till to talk about e-mail protocols, groupware and implementing them in KDE.

Open Source collaborative development site, SourceForge.net, has surpassed the 100,000th project milestone. The momentum behind SourceForge.net’s continued rapid growth has been fueled by the visibility of new projects posted by leading organizations such as NASA, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and SalesForce.com. In the past 100 days, SourceForge.net has approved and launched nearly 6,000 new projects.

Java-based open source development has come a long way since the early days of developers sharing GUI libraries. Geronimo is a large-scale project attempting to create a certified J2EE 1.4 server based on existing open source components. Take a tour through the Geronimo maze with Sing Li as your guide.

While open source software is gaining ground on the back end, it needs to succeed on the desktop to become a true commercial success, because this is where the public eye is focused.

Postfix is fast out of the box, but like other packages, you can usually tune it to work even faster. Furthermore, there are situations where Postfix may not perform as well as you expected, whether because of hardware or software limitations on the server system or other adverse conditions, such as a big influx of spam or undeliverable mail. This article shows you how to find and analyze the most common performance problems.

A new wave of freely available Open Source business software is experiencing rapid adoption by business users. With hundreds of thousands of downloads to date, Open Source solutions like NetOffice and SugarSuite are beginning to tread on territory traditionally occupied by Microsoft products such as Project and Outlook.

Amidst raving about Google maps capabilities, an new open source project pops up that does many of the same things. ka-Map, released by DM Solutions, handles many of the same web mapping challenges that Google has handled so well. The project is being opened up for open source participation, improvements and testing. It looks very promising and powerful, with a ton of great data loaded behind and powered by the open source MapServer.