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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.

Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), which provides services to staff and students around the university, will complete its move to open-source PostgreSQL as the back-end database for most of its systems over the next year.

Welcome to this year's 44th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Anibal Monsalve Salazar summarised the latest DebConf5 preparation meeting. Joey Hess reported that he has been able to test the new debian-installer remote via network on different architectures which helps ensure that it will run properly.

Pogo Linux announced the PerformanceWare 5864, an eight processor AMD Opteron-based server. This system is the first commercially available Linux-optimized server to use eight AMD Opteron 800-series processors. The computing power of the PerformanceWare 5864 meets the ever growing demands of enterprise databases and high performance computing applications.