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O'Reilly sub-titles this excellent book, "Beating the 0-Day Vulnerability Threat". But, author Bill McCarty gives readers the best summary of the Linux security model you may ever find.

Among open-source users, "Only 7 percent of companies work with multinational open-source software providers such as Novell or Red Hat, while most of the rest train their employees or hire independent professionals," Trends Consulting director Raul Bauer was quoted as saying.

Linux Bangalore/2004, India's biggest tech-fest for free and open source software was held in Bangalore, the country's IT hub, last week. Attendees from many countries got to see more than 80 presentations delivered by 62 speakers in a span of three days.

Linux Client Migration Cookbook A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating to Desktop Linux

A new study has found that Linux is more secure than most commercial software -- results that echo what its proponents have long said. A four-year study released today by Coverity, reports Linux has a low bug count, making the code more stable and secure. The 2.6 Linux production kernel, now being shipped with software from Novell and other Linux vendors, contains 985 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code, far below the industry average, said Seth Hallem, Coverity's CEO.

The number of female developers working on Debian is set to rise in the next few months thanks to the work of Debian Women

Novell's newest Linux certification has broken into the Top 10 "Hot Certs" for 2005, an annual ranking of technical certifications by CertCities.com, a leading certification publication.

An extensive review using a source-code analysis tool finds that the Linux 2.6 kernel has 0.17 bugs per 1,000 lines of code, compared with the 10 to 20 bugs per 1,000 lines generally found in commercial software packages.

Zinside (with the appropriate slogan "the Zen side of computing") announces the debut of the Zen Box server, a 100% open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange(c) and Lotus Domino(c). The French company uses an accessible and revolutionary approach to the server industry, which is frequently considered as too technical and is often dreaded by end users.

I urge you to consider leveraging the free resources available and trust you already have the motivation, the people and resources under your employ to create something durable and important for people all over the world. One way to move ahead is by scanning the works of the libraries of Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library and others into the OASIS "OpenDocument" File Format of the OpenOffice desktop office suite. This will guarantee public access to the libraries' contents as well as indirectly promote Google's interests in search.

It deals with reading XML-files using DOM. I will learn more about FPC/Lazarus/XML like SAX-parsing, XPath, XML-RPC and then write some more tutorials - so, perhaps, in the end we will have a collection which can be called "FPC and XML"

South African Linux training company Afribiz is spearheading an effort to have more than 200 applicants sit the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) examinations in just one day next year. Kin le Roux of Afribiz says the only other country that has attempted this before is China which did it earlier this year. "Obviously we would like to do even more than China did," says Le Roux.

Adobe's combination of PDF, XML and productive use of J2EE and WebSphere, creates Intelligent Documents that can dynamically interact with core applications and integrate people into business processes.

With great pleasure I would like announce creation of the kde-graphics-devel mailing list. The list is developer oriented and will be the central place for all eye-candy development within KDE. Developers and researchers from the computer graphics field are welcomed and strongly encouraged to subscribe. Everything computer graphics related will be on topic - that includes developments within the X.org community, uses of OpenGL within a desktop environment or simply sharing your latest computer graphics research findings with others.

A little thing I wrote after reading some biology book, about how software development works, and how we can take advantage of it.

Welcome to this year's 49th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Bruce Byfield released a short introduction into apt-get on NewsForge. Again, developers were advised to close bugs automatically with a changelog entry only in connection with a proper description. Jason Boxman wrote a guideline for using Exim 4 and Courier IMAP on a Debian system.

To paraphrase this LA Times story: The RIAA and MPAA got their posteriors handed to them on a platter this year. HR 4077, the PIRATE Act, and INDUCE (among others) all got bogged down in Congress. If this news fills you with holiday cheer, you should donate to Public Knowledge, the D.C.-based nonprofit that made it happen. I've been working with this organization since their formation and can vouch for both their effectiveness in lobbying and that their hearts are in the right places. 'Tis the season for giving. 'Tis also the season for tax-deductible donations.

The New York Stock Exchange announced its new TradeWorks trading system today, though portions of the system have been in place for months. Described as an "Extreme Availability" system by IBM, it includes up to 3,000 -- 650 are already in use on the floor of the NYSE -- custom made wireless handheld devices used by floor brokers. The handhelds talk to Linux-based workstations, which in turn talk to HP servers, and they speak to IBM Z-series mainframes running a DB2 backend.

Got questions? LinuxQuestions.org has answers -- and a lot more. This popular and well-established site run by Jeremy Garcia has at last count 148,040 registered users. That's 4,473 more registered users than the Linux Counter itself.

"The Cybersource Linux vs. Windows TCO Comparison is back and better than ever. In April 2002, Cybersource undertook the first study contrasting the overall Total Cost of Ownership differences between Linux and open source platforms on the one hand, and Windows and Microsoft platforms on the other. We have now updated this report to accommodate the changes in both platforms. We have also extended the model to increase its relevance and accuracy.