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Plenty of good news this week, ranging from the release of Portage 2.0.51 via the web contest winner and documentation updates to a reminder of the Gentoo presence at the upcoming German LWE. This week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter also contains a request for help from the Haskell team, an announcement of the first Gentoo user meeting in Cambridge, UK, and the regular services with community and press coverage, tips and tricks centered around the new Portage release, bugzilla statistics, and three new developers to welcome on the Gentoo team.

Red Hat has been made aware that emails are circulating that pretend to come from the Red Hat Security Team. These emails tell users to download and run an update from a users home directory. This fake update appears to contain malicious code. Official messages from the Red Hat security team are never sent unsolicited, are always sent from the address secalert@redhat.com, and are digitally signed by GPG. All official updates for Red Hat products are digitally signed and should not be installed unless they are correctly signed and the signature is verified. For more details see http://www.redhat.com/security/team/key.html.

Determining geographic locations based on Internet IP offers localization services and brings together user communities without the need for GPS receivers or complicated configuration switching.

If previous LinuxWorld events were anything to go by, you'd imagine hackers fortifying the defences against the invading hordes of suits. But in this month's event in London, the suits and sandals achieved a kind of happy equilibrium, with corporate representatives competing to establish their roots in the community, and the hackers in the .ORG village making a notable effort to appear more professional. Even the two desktop environments, KDE and GNOME, put aside their holy war to exhibit under the common banner of freedesktop.org.

Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MinDef) has moved away from a predominantly Microsoft desktop policy by installing the open-source OpenOffice productivity software on 5,000 desktop computers.

Ricardo writes a tutorial to help people new to the Linux 3D Desktop called: Mini Dev Doc -- Adding a new application

Quite the buzz is building over the technology preview released by MetroPipe. This package runs on Damnsmall Linux and uses QEMU (a CPU emulator). Essentially an Internet communication system, it can run entirely on a USB mini-drive key (128 MB) and other flash-media devices, and even iPods. It includes a bootable Linux OS, a web browser (Firefox), email client (Thunderbird), Enigmail GPG (for email encryption) and a persistent home directory.

A Solaris 10 that is “cheaper and faster than Red Hat Linux” was the highlight at Sun Microsystems’ quarterly launch of new products in South Asia on Oct 12.

It’s somewhat cheaper, decidedly less virus-prone. And no longer just a fringe fad. Pragya Singh writes on how PSUs and private individuals alike are taking to Linux, the ‘free’ operating system running a computer near you

Is it possible that the free software movement can lead to a new kind of social structure beyond capitalism? This article defines capitalism, it's problems and it's relation with free software movement and determines if and how can free software movement lead to a new society.

At OSDir, we've done a screenshot tour for both KDE and Gnome interfaces of SUSE LINUX 9.2 Live.

A group of companies promoting open-source software launched a campaign in Europe Wednesday that is designed to bolster the use of copyright law at the expense of patent law in a move they believe will help safeguard the spread of open-source software.

gnuLinEx is not a product born by chance or spontaneously, but rather by the need to fulfill a double goal. At OSDir, we've got some screenshots of the gnuLinEx 2004 Live Beta release.

Exporting environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 will affect performance of Oracle 10g instance on Red Hat Linux starting with version 9, i.e. version with Native Posix Threads Implementation.

Mozilla Foundation, the Firefox production stable, has raised over $100,000 in the past three days in its bid to make the public more aware of the Internet Explorer alternative, the firm said yesterday.

Kevin Thompson, the former chief financial officer of Linux seller Red Hat, has taken that post at SAS Institute, spokeswoman Desiree Adkins said Friday. He left Red Hat in September, after announcing his resignation in July.

Firefox hoped to raise enough money from donations to pay for an ad in The New York Times. Now it has more than enough. The campaign started on Tuesday with the goal of getting 2,500 people to donate $30 or more to the marketing fund within ten days, with the aim of placing a full page ad in The New York Times.

Introduction: By now you've probably heard of Linux. I don't know what you know but I'll tell you what I do. The technically correct name of Linux is GNU/Linux due to but when most people say Linux they mean a full, free, open source operating system that is making waves across the world and making Microsoft sweat by competing with Windows. Linux is free. Consider the word "free" for a second.

Bristol City Council may move up to 5,000 of its desktop computers to StarOffice next year. The move could save an estimated £1.4m over five years, a council spokeswoman said on Friday.

Slax is based on slackware distribution of linux. its a small livecd distro which pack quite a punch with such a small iso size. For newbies, its a great way to get introduced to linux without the need to format/install a operating system they dont even know about. and For Hardcore users its a great distro to carry on mini-cd when the needs comes to log into systems where u dont hav time or access to load operating system on it.