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Silicon Graphics Inc. recently released a 10 Gigabit Ethernet option for its line of Linux/Unix-based servers, workstations and storage appliances.

How one sysadmin built his own system statistics monitoring program.

Jabber, the streaming XML technology mainly used for instant messaging, is well-suited to its most common task. However, Jabber is a far more generic tool. It's not a chat server per se, but rather a complete XML routing framework. This has some pretty far-reaching implications.

Companies using open source components must build a strategy to deal with potential risks around licensing and intellectual property involved with the software.

O'Reilly Media is now a U.S. and Canadian reseller for Mandrakesoft, creators of Mandrakelinux.

It used to be that governmental agencies enamored of the status quo -- and that's pretty much the whole government -- were not interested in open source solutions to their IT problems. Like the rest of the IT industry, though, government is now looking to open source to make its resources go further. Unlike the rest of the industry, and atypical for government, federal and state agencies are embracing open source ideas and ideals.

After months of hinting about its intentions, Sun Microsystems finally confirmed that it intends to release source code from its Solaris operating system under an open source licence.

Electronic voting machine vendors should make their source code available for scrutiny by state elections officials, the head of a federal voting commission said.

Freely-Distributable Xandros Desktop Operating System Provides Windows Replacement for Global Audience

Red Hat announced today the addition of two new companies, Eon Infotech and Silicon Comnet as their authorized training partners, for its training and certification program in Chandigarh.

Eight CD Set Available Immediately in Digital Form or Boxed Version

Asian governments are adopting the freely available Linux operating system in a bid to cut costs and address security concerns, helping the region drive global growth in demand for the software, vendors and analysts said.

Mozilla 1.7 RC 3 has been released.

SCO, which announced recently that its 2nd Fiscal Quarter 2004 earnings release and investor conference call, previously scheduled for June 2, 2004, hs been delayed until June 10, has gone onto the offensive against Sun's announcement last week that it intends to open-source Solaris. Sun could not just release Solaris under the GPL, says SCO, since Solaris is based on Unix System V, the source code to which is owned by The SCO Group.

A testing candidate of Mozilla Firefox 0.9 is now available from mozilla.org. There are a couple more bugs we'd like to fix for the 0.9 release but want to get as much feedback on the app in general before we go out. Please download this build and test with it and report any show stopping bugs that you find. We are still looking to do a 0.9 final sometime Monday.

Greedy computer hackers using open-source Linux machines could steal more than their fair share of bandwidth from Wi-Fi hotspots, Swiss computer scientists have warned. At the MobiSys 2004 conference in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, Imad Aad, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, outlined how changing just one line of code in the Linux operating system could allow hackers to monopolise the bandwidth at hotspots using the 802.11 standard.

Red Hat's newest hobbyist and developer version of Linux, Fedora Core 2, caused trouble for some who found they couldn't start Windows after installing the Linux upgrade side by side with it.

I want to write again about Richard Stallman's talk on the origins of the free software movement at the Yorktown High School Libre Users Group.

I'm sure everyone is sick of reading reviews of Suse 9.1 by now but perhaps this one is a little different. This is not an ordinary review in the sense that I don't provide lots of colourful screenshots, or ramble on endlessly about the included software versions and other trivial things. Written from the point of view of a Debian user trying to switch to an "easier" distribution, I concentrated on how Suse stacks up compared to some of the traditional Debian strengths.