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The planned migration of 14,000 desktops in the City of Munich to Linux has attracted attention from as far away as Japan and Australia - and so far all they've switched over is the browser. Peter Hofmann, the project leader of the Linux migration in the City of Munich, code-named LiMux, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday what it feels like to become a star in the Linux world.

SugarCRM is one of the first, if not the first, commercial open-source CRM company. Some analysts say there is definitely a niche available for open-source CRM, especially among companies that are unhappy with the vertical or industry-specific CRM applications on the market.

In a research study submitted for publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Anil Prahda claims to have discovered serious health issues stemming from the use of open-source software (OSS). His report cites a lengthy list of maladies tied to OSS, including several potentially fatal illnesses.

It seems probable that Novell and Dell have reached a deal to factory install SUSE Linux on the latter's servers. However, neither is confirming they have reached such an agreement in this article, though earlier arrangements are cited. This would seem to put Novell on par with Red Hat regarding server support if this proves to be true.

The Mozilla Foundation, the creators of the open-source Firefox browser, has predicted that by the end of 2005, it will have 10% of the browser market. It doesn't take rocket science to realize that's a swing at Microsoft, given the near ubiquity of its Windows operating system and its Internet Explorer browser.

MySQL will release the production version of MySQL 4.1 on Wednesday. The open-source database is edging closer to parity with commercial databases with functionality such as binary prepared statements.

Pairs TimeSys 2.6 Linux, Advanced Real-Time Capabilities and Powerful Development Tools with 320MB/s Performance of PowerPC(R) Based Motorola MVME6100

Microsoft finally answered (in .doc format) questions over licensing its software to run on the latest dual-core processors, expected from AMD and Intel in servers beginning next year. The Redmond, Washington-based company joins Red Hat in sticking to the same per-system or per-CPU approach, even with CPUs with two or more cores, for now. But the advent of more powerful dual-core and multi-core processors may actually mark the death of per-processor licensing in the face of irrelevance and the emergence of different licensing issues around virtual machines and various configurations.

U.S.-based Red Hat Inc., the world's top distributor of open-source Linux software, expects its international business to increase to half its sales within 12 months, an executive said on Tuesday.

As the shift towards open source tools is already a major force in audio/video software world, we've decided to comply with various open source licensing requirements and have opened a separate site section for open source projects' source code downloads.

Bristol City Council could begin one of the UK's biggest roll-outs of open source desktop applications if a proposal to adopt Star Office is adopted at a council meeting next month.

The global LinuxWorld conference and expo will be staged in both Johannesburg and Cape Town next year.

In areas where outsourcing doesn't make sense and IT needs to build custom functionality unavailable in commercial products, open source is an increasingly viable choice.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange credits its migration to commodity Intel-based servers and Linux with cutting costs and shaving 100 milliseconds off the time required to complete a trade.

This morning the developers of the free software content management system PostNuke posted a security announcement saying that a vulnerability in the paFileDB download management software allowed an attacker to put up a hacked version of PostNuke for download. That version was live on the PostNuke download site between Sunday at 23:50 GMT and Tuesday at 8:30 GMT. Proprietary software zealots are always saying that open source programs are likely to contain backdoors, but is this situation truly what they mean when they say that?

Micrel, LSI Logic, and Arcturus Networks have teamed up on a reference design for wireless VoIP routers based on embedded Linux. The design targets the residential and small-office gateway markets, where VoIP is expected to grow quickly, the companies say. The design supports 2-8 VoIP ports.

Israeli software company StartCom has released an updated version of its StartCom MultiMedia Edition Linux distribution, which is based on Red Hat's Linux software. StartCom claims that its distribution offers better driver support, as well as including ALSA modules and an NVIDIA driver.

Now that the new voting system is in place, we can start running fun reports to find out what the readers here think of the stories that are posted. This "Hall of Fame" report presents a somewhat accurate view of what the Linux community thinks about various news sources, writers and topics.

South African dairy farmers are starting to use open source software to improve their farming techniques and outputs. ACS Online has developed a range of dairy farming-specific modules using PHP, Apache and MySQL running on Sun boxes with Solaris 9. The modules currently available include financial management, a sustainable pasture management system, livestock management and a performance analysis module which uses the Balanced Scorecard reporting technique.

This is the third update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename `woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems. Those who frequently update from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.