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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).

Most Linux users know how easily they can run a Web server on their favorite distros. Unfortunately, serving pages is one thing -- finding them is another. That's when many users turn to ht://Dig.

LinuxQuestions.org recently interviewed members of the NVIDIA Linux team. The interview covers the internal use of Linux at NVIDIA, the current demand NVIDIA is seeing for Linux drivers, the biggest perceived obstacle in Linux becoming a mainstream gaming platform and the decision to maintain both an Open Source and closed source Linux driver.

Many of the most vocal open-source evangelists have been pinning their hopes on the public sector to gain a foothold against Microsoft. So the news that government users can now purchase Microsoft licences at an even lower price - thanks to the latest NHS contract invoking a new volume discount level - will be seen as a blow to their hopes.

If they want to send spam, make them pay a price. Built on the widely available SHA-1 algorithm, hashcash is a clever system that requires a parameterizable amount of work on the part of a requester while staying "cheap" for an evaluator to check. In other words, the sender has to do real work to put something into your inbox. You can certainly use hashcash in preventing spam, but it has other applications as well, including keeping spam off of Wikis and speeding the work of distributed parallel applications.

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The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology.

The next generation of Zope, an open-source application server, was released on Monday. Zope X3 3.0.0 has been written from scratch to improve the architecture of the system.

The past week for us at OSDir was a busy one. In the past week we installed, captured screenshots, and built screenshot tours for Frugalware 0.1, Knoppix 3.6, Slo-Tech Linux 2.1, Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.4, SimplyMEPIS 2004.04, Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 Beta 1, and OpenOffice.org 1.1 Writer. Head over and have a look.

A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here.

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.