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Hewlett-Packard is returning to a software market where it suffered one of its worst defeats. But this time, the company has open-source as its ally.

Country Energy, one of the largest providers of electrical power in Australia, is a good example of a public sector company that has taken Linux seriously. The company, which has annual revenues of about $1 billion a year, operates more than 200,000 miles of power lines, serving the needs of about 750,000 customers in five states or territories. Some of the more famous customers include the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne's Rialto Towers, and One Steel Wollongong.

In the second of a two-part interview, Open Systems Development Labs chief Stuart Cohen gives his views on Linux security, desktops, the Domino effect towards Linux, and why Microsoft will eventually port to Linux.

The JDS Linux desktop has had significant success in Asian countries. Now the Japan ministry wants a look.

Debian developers have completely rewritten the Debian installer for the next version of the Linux distribution, code-named Sarge. The update, due around the New Year, is the first major release of Debian since July 2002 when the current version, Woody, was released.

OSDir has begun a weekly discussion topic forum where this week's topic of conversation is Discribe Your Ideal "Open Source" Presentation: "...I think there may be good reason for a few, on topic, open source presentations that advocates around the world could use to do a good & interesting presentation that hits the major points depending on who the audience is. So, if there were going to be such a thing.. what would you include, not include, do, not do, etc etc?"

Red Hat on Thursday announced the opening of its first office in China, in the nation's capital, Beijing.

The South Africa-based Go Open Source campaign is filming the world's first television series dedicated to open source software. The 13-episode Go_Open will air on SABC 2 every Saturday at 17:30 from November 20.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 appears to have been downloaded over one million times on the day of its release, based on preliminary data.

Denial of service (DoS) attacks aim to take down Web servers and other Internet resources, often by swarming them with repeated requests, which knocks them out. LaBrea is honeypot software that cooks up a fake machine with virtual ports with virtual vulnerabilities for a cracker to play with.

New Breed Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Tux Paint 0.9.14, the first major release this year of the highly acclaimed children’s art software. Over the past nine months, steady progress has been made to improve Tux Paint and implement features requested by teachers and parents.

SourceForge Enterprise Edition lets scientists and developers at the Navy's weather center collaborate within the safety of a firewall.

Red Hat is expanding in China, opening its first office in the world's most populous country to tap growing demand for the computer software that it sells. The Raleigh company, the biggest distributor of the Linux operating system, plans today to announce the facility in Beijing. It will initially focus on sales and education efforts.

More Aussie companies are getting advice about the use of open source software in mission-critical areas of their operations. According to a leading brief at Phillips Fox the number of inquiries his outfit is getting on Open Source is better than it has ever been.

The age of Linux maturity has begun, and the days of waiting for enterprise applications will soon be over, says Alan Nugent, chief technology officer and senior vice president, Novell Inc. of Waltham, Mass. He covers the enterprise Linux application territory, from what's missing to what's hot, in this interview.

When a parasite is faced with a change in environment, it too will change or perish. While Microsoft Windows is the platform of choice for viruses and other malware, parasite writers are starting to smell fresh blood elsewhere. Numerous metrics indicate that Linux is charging full speed into the desktop market. According to an IDC report, businesses and government departments will spend $98 million on services to support their Linux systems in 2004. By 2008, the figure is predicted to increase to $228 million.

Linux distributions for the consumer desktop may be imperfect; but Indian developers have already created some compelling applications, especially in local languages.

Having chosen Suse 9.1 Personal as my choice of Linux distribution, I was satisfied with KDE, but curious (and rebellious) to try to install Gnome 2.8, no matter what. After success, I wrote an article on how it was done.

In this interview by Preston St. Pierre, Alan Nugent, Novell's CTO, speaks on behalf of Novell on their Linux strategy. Innovation is on the way at Novell, with a next-generation desktop in the plans. Internally, the Linux migration is on schedule, and the staff are wholly in favor of moving away from Windows.

This week saw the latest release of Red Hat's community-based Linux distribution, Fedora Core 3. While not a business release—and indeed Fedora has no official support from Red Hat Inc.—Fedora serves as a proving ground for ideas that may eventually make their way into RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).