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Computers have been emulating other computers for a long time, often to access a legacy application or to use applications written for a popular OS on a system with a more stable, responsive OS. As Linux grows in popularity, developers need to examine their options when planning binaries that will run on non-Linux systems.

Aaron Siego, one of the KDE developers, recently posted a very public rant against porting OSS applications to proprietary platforms like win32. I a self professed zealot for all things FOSS, strongly disagree with Mr. Siego. The proceeding is my rebuttal to his statements.

The open-source arena now has its own world-class content-management system: Plone. If you're a solution provider considering a CMS for a client, or perhaps a collaborative portal for your own company, take a look at Plone. You won't be sorry.

Lightning is the working project name for an extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird.

note: In Part 1 of this two-part series, Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, shared three recipes, with tips on installing a program for easy uninstall, killing user processes, and better logins without passwords. This week, in the final part, she offers two more tasty treats, including tips on running different window managers simultaneously with Xnest and hosting multiple domains with Apache. Enjoy!

Word processors are too often made to do much more than they were originally designed for. If a word processing program is all you've ever had or used for your projects, you may have a tendency to use it for every writing job that you have, even if it is more difficult or inconvenient to do so. For specialized jobs there are specialized tools, so what is it that you are intending to create, and what software should you use? In this article we'll discuss some specialized content authoring tools available for GNU/Linux that you should know about.

Around 20 years ago a programmer at MIT quit his job to develop a complete and free Unix-style operating system--the GNU system. That programmer was Richard Stallman, also known as rms, the founder of the Free Software Foundation.

Since Microsoft released XP three years ago, virus writers have been extremely successful in exploiting embarrassing security holes in Windows. Since then, the company's 57,000 employees have been unable to lock it down and the software giant's home page is now permanently plastered with step by step advice on how to secure your Windows system and guard against the latest security flaws.

Ubuntu Linux has posted a series of international screenshots of their 4.10 LiveCD (thanks to OSDir.com).

This includes Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French screenshots. Additional languages are soon to be added.

Internet Explorer is insecure junk, and it's time for Windows users to move to Firefox if they want to protect their systems.

OpenOffice.org's Calc isn't only about rows and columns. If you look long enough at the empty spreadsheet, you will soon realise that it looks like a map grid, and, indeed, with a bit of imagination you can use Calc to create a simple yet handy mapping application. This how-to guides you through building a Calc-n-map -- an application for marking points of interest on a city map.

It's been slated as one of the most significant Linux projects in years, but can Mono really succeed in providing an open source equivalent to Microsoft's much-hyped .NET? David Braue separates fact from fiction.

Red Hat yesterday said its sale rose 55 per cent during its third quarter of fiscal 2005, reaching $50.9m from the year-ago total, $32.8m. Q3's sales were ten per cent higher than Q2's.

Unpatched Linux systems are surviving longer on the Internet before being compromised, according to a report from the Honeynet Project released this week.

It's not really as bad as it sounds, but the article does point out some reasons that Free Software and OSS by association may have a hard time staying the course and really "seeing us through."

The BBC has created a network protocol testing platform written in Python and made it available as an open source application

There are several word processors in GNU/Linux, each with different goals and features. Some are free software, some are based on free software, some are proprietary. What do you, as an amateur or professional writer, need to consider in such programs when moving to GNU/Linux? If you're not entirely satisfied with your current word processor or if you're wondering what's available on the GNU/Linux platform in terms of word processors, this article's for you.

Modernization is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

Linux seller Red Hat reported on Wednesday that its third-quarter net income jumped 155 percent year-over-year to $10.8 million as its software business matured.

Microsoft today lost its appeal of the European Union ruling which requires it to -- among other things -- unbundle the Windows Media Player in order to level the playing field with other firms offering the same functionality for streaming audio and video. It must also make public the information required to allow others to interoperate with the Windows platform. But don't break out the champagne just yet. According to Jeremy Allison, the lead Samba.org developer, if the ruling doesn't preclude royalties then the whole effort by the EU will turn out to have been a waste of time.