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The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology.

The next generation of Zope, an open-source application server, was released on Monday. Zope X3 3.0.0 has been written from scratch to improve the architecture of the system.

The past week for us at OSDir was a busy one. In the past week we installed, captured screenshots, and built screenshot tours for Frugalware 0.1, Knoppix 3.6, Slo-Tech Linux 2.1, Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.4, SimplyMEPIS 2004.04, Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 Beta 1, and OpenOffice.org 1.1 Writer. Head over and have a look.

A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here.

In this month's toast.. To Evil!, Danny O'Brien's mock celebration of the foibles within the open source world, he lances and skewers Diebold, quite easily too; pops CherryOS's cherry; and lays bare Ubuttnakedness in hedonistic fashion. 'By their fruits ye shall know them, we are told. Time once again to look at last month's open source devilry, select three nominations for Most Evil Conducted This Month, and ask: how about *them* apples?'

It's official! Linux is the world's fastest growing operating system, and with version 2.2 Trustix continues to demonstrate day on day why this is so.

French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft announced on Tuesday that its revenue over the last fiscal year has reached €5.18m, representing a 33 percent increase year-on-year.

If you're ready to give video editing and movie making a try now that you know about Kino, here are some tips to get you up and running.

Linuxlookup.com is reporting ATI has released a new proprietary Linux driver (3.14.6). The Linux driver version 3.14.6 provides hardware support for many PCI graphic cards.

What have all of SCO's legal actions amounted to? In many ways, not much, but in others, SCO has profoundly changed how we think about technology. [and Steve explores this theme]

As the SuperComputing 2004 show kicks off in Pittsburg this week, Linux technology will be well represented among the big honking processor, storage and networking technologies on display.

Supercomputing 2004, Pittsburgh, PA (November 9, 2004) – Absoft Corporation today announced it will manage, sell, and support a new High Performance Computing (HPC) Software Developers’ Kit (SDK) for IBM Linux on POWER™ clusters and servers. The new Absoft HPC SDK is expected to become the standard HPC Development Kit offered to developers for IBM Linux on POWER servers and clusters.

The South Australian Democrat, who last year introduced a bill into state parliament to amend state software procurement policies, has again raised the issue of the government taking up the open source option.

A number of changes have been made to Security Enhanced Linux in Fedora Core 3--here's what you should know.

Red Hat Inc's Fedora Project community has introduced version 3 of the Fedora Core Linux operating system, including changes to the SELinux policy that enables users to target the most vulnerable programs.

Some tips for figuring out what all the startup messages flying by your screen actually mean.

Every organization requires some type of a network site security policy that will protect the organization's valuable assets -- everything from systems to data. The policy guidelines presented here will help you to establish an enterprise-wide program for how internal and external users will interact with a company's computer network, how the corporate computer architecture topology will be implemented, and where computer assets will be located.

Second Generation of Panasas' Storage Cluster Platform Helps Customers Make Real World Breakthroughs that Improve People's Lives

HPC Certification Center Will Allow Software Vendors to Certify Applications on Linux Networx Systems Running Novell's SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server

Mandrakesoft revenues increased by 49% in the second half of fiscal year 2003/2004 and 33% for the full fiscal year. This is the strongest full year revenue since inception.

How many times have you sat at a computer and thought, If Linux was installed on this box I could... Wish no longer. Instead of carrying around bulky Live CDs or an external hard drive, how about Linux in your pocket? The combination of a USB key and SLAX, the Linux distro used in this example, is a powerful combination when it comes to troubleshooting and spreading the word about Linux. The ability to boot the key, browse the computer's hard drive (SLAX has NTFS support built in), and then locate and burn a file to CD can be very helpful, especially with a computer that is on its last legs. So grab your key and come with me, when we're done you'll have a new tool to help out in the computing trenches.