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While it’s not universally admired, few would disagree that the phenomenon of community development around the open-source software model has taken hold in many organizations. While first seen by proprietary software companies as perhaps everything from fad to fascism to a force to be reckoned with, many have realized that it’s better to ride Goliath’s massive strength than to nip at its heels.

Mandrakesoft has teamed up with the French ministry of foreign affairs on a program to provide a network of sixty public Internet access points throughout Africa, according to a statement from the French Linux maker.

Almost unnoticed, our favorite Desktop Environment has turned eight. This posting by a young and daring student called Matthias Ettrich started it all. Since then, KDE has come a long way. It did not only evolve technically, but also has one of the greatest communities, where people are not only terribly productive but friends. Thanks to all contributors and happy birthday KDE!

AT&T has set up a lab to evaluate how Linux desktops would work as an everyday technology environment for the company. The telecom giant is doing this as a way to explore potential cost-cutting methods, the company said last week. AT&T is also investigating Macintosh OS X as a potential desktop operating system replacement. AT&T says it will make a decision based on its evaluations at the end of next year.

According to the quarterly report [pdf link] we received today from Wipro, India's largest IT services and business process outsourcing contractor, revenue was up 47% -- and profits were up 67% -- over last year. Better yet, Wipro claims it has added 34 new clients in the last quarter, and "10 are Fortune 1000/Global 1000 customers."

Traditional patch management solutions are better at installing software than they are at patching and upgrading, according to a recent Yankee Group report that recommends comprehensive rather than piecemeal approaches to fixing vulnerabilities in applications.

This article shows how to access a non-booting Linux system with a Knoppix CD, get read-write permissions on configuration files, create and manage partitions and filesystems, and copy files to various storage media and over the network. You can use Knoppix for hardware and system configuration detection and for creating and managing partitions and filesystems. You can do it all from Knoppix's excellent graphical utilities, or from the command line.

People just don't willingly contribute enough money for long term support of Free, Open Source Software, or any free community projects for that matter. The numbers don't lie. Most free software projects put a PayPal link on their websites so their supporters can make donations (non coercive payments). But somehow, their bank balances retain double goose egg balances, or close to it, in absolute perpetuity. These freeloading dead-beats must be pushed into paying. A commercial, "paid for" (coercive payment) model, is the only way that we can ever really sustain GNU/Linux projects and distributions. Wake up and smell the coffee!

Small class size, great food and a beautiful setting make this not your ordinary training session.

I recently moved from Mozilla to Firefox 1.0PR for Web browsing on my Fedora Core 1 Linux desktop system. On that platform, Firefox doesn't do anything with mailto: links by default; it just prints an error message if you click on one. However, a Firefox extension called mozex allows you to use any external mail program for mailto: links in Firefox.

Discontinues sales of older Astaro IPSec Client software

"UserLinux is a Linux distribution with very high aspirations. Founded and backed by Linux luminary Bruce Perens, part of the UserLinux mission is to repair the economic paradigm of enterprise Linux. The recently released UserLinux Beta 1 is perhaps a tangible small step on the path toward achieving its lofty ambitions..."

IBM plans to announce two new top-end Unix servers Friday, sources familiar with its plans said, opening major new challenges to Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard.

On October 18th at 2 p.m. EDT, eWEEK.com's Steven Vaughan-Nichols joins a panel of Linux experts for an eduational eSeminar that will help you make the right choice.

The city of Paris intends to reduce its dependence on software suppliers with"de facto monopolies," but considers an immediate switch of its 17,000 desktops to open source software too costly, it said Wednesday.

One of the UK's IT training firms is seeing increasing demand for Linux courses, but experts say that there's a lot more going on in other parts of the world.

Based on Knoppix 3.6, "eduKnoppix is a live CD specifically targeted for italian schools." - eduknoppix.dmf.unicatt.it OSDir shows you what the 2.0.0 release of this great Italian distro has to offer, in their selection of eduKnoppix screenshots.

I recently installed a remote home camera security system using wireless Internet cameras and a fine free software application for Linux called ZoneMinder. The cameras are installed at a friend's house, and the application runs at mine. ZoneMinder is powerful, feature-rich, and sophisticated.

"The enhanced usability, hardware support and performance make this (10.1 Community) release a milestone on the way to widespread Linux adoption. Mandrakelinux 10.1 Community is designed for those who want the best and latest software and want it as soon as possible." - .mandrakesoft.com OSDir takes you on a tour of 10.1 Community in their 101 screenshot review.

NetSilicon will sample in November a low-cost one-chip network device SoC (system-on-chip) that will hit production in March, 2005, priced between $11 and $16 in 10K quantities. The NS9360 is based on a 200MHz ARM9 core, with an LCD controller and networking. It is supported under Linux by third-party partners, and targets cost-sensitive, space-limited applications such as industrial, building, and medical automation, instrumentation, networked displays, networked terminals, and industrial POS (point-of-sale/service) printers.