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Australia's Open Source Industry Association has used the Sasser worm incident to push its claim that operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Unix are reliable and secure.

Over the past year, the Howard County (Md.) Public Library has migrated more than 200 public PCs from Windows 98 and Windows NT to Linux. These PCs are used both to surf the Internet and to access the library's catalogues. NewsForge recently spoke with Brian Auger, associate director of the library, and the IT team responsible for the migration. We wanted to learn more about why and how it was accomplished, and how pleased they are with the results.

They are Canada's newest Linux entrepreneurs and they're looking to make it big — before they graduate. What sets [their Linux distribution] Ignalum Linux apart is its ability to run popular Windows applications such as Office, Word and Excel.

In the Unix world of computing, it is possible to exchange your window manager with an advanced one. The window manager's main purpose is to move/resize windows on the screen. These improved window managers differ from the way people are used to interact with windows in the Microsoft Windows world.

Major vendors are positioning Linux as an alternative for high-end systems. The open-source Linux operating system is just one of several choices for desktop computers, enterprise servers and other common implementations. Sometimes it is chosen, but often it is not.

Former Red Hat and IBM executive James Neiser has joined Durham-based Web services startup StrikeIron as chief marketing officer, the company announced

Computer Associates International is looking to the open-source community for help in building its next wave of management software.

Sun Microsystems has unveiled the new Sun Fire V20z server, based on AMD's Opteron 64-bit processors and incorporating all the benefits of Sun's Java Enterprise System running on either the Solaris Operating System or Linux.

Linux is being used to run mission-critical applications in large companies, not just providing infrastructure services, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. Some 53 percent of 140 companies surveyed by Forrester are running mission-critical applications on Linux, and 52 percent choose Linux for new applications, Forrester said in an April 26 study, "Linux Crosses Into Mission-Critical Apps."

Linux Magazine posted 13 new stories to their website today.

Linux is being used to run mission-critical applications in large companies, not just providing infrastructure services, according to a recent study by Forrester Research.

Have you ever needed an automated solution that requires very little administration intervention, works on possibly different flavors of Linux, and doesn't require software with 'phone home' functionality? A solution based on free software which is scriptable and flexible enough to allow updates from a locally mounted source, as opposed to a remote mirror?

Novell Inc. is banking its re-entry into the consciousness of IT shops on Linux. Through its acquisitions of Ximian and SuSE Linux AG last year, Novell is working hard to regain its stature as a major technology player. In this interview, SuSE chief technology officer Juergen Geck touches on Novell's Linux strategy, starting with its recent release of the YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) management tool to open source, his thoughts on back-porting features from the 2.6 kernel and SuSE's product road map for the rest of 2004.

A move is afoot to revive development of an open-source router platform. The Extensible Open Router Platform (XORP) is an open-source software project for creating production-level open-source router code. Like its predecessor the Linux Router Project (which ended in 2002) the goal of XORP is to create open-source routing code that can run on commodity hardware and become “the Linux of routing,” according to the project’s founders.

Thanks mainly to Unix legacy know-how and successful Linux training efforts thus far, the training and certification processes for Linux in the enterprise datacenter are maturing as well as the operating system itself. At the same time, Linux vendors such as Red Hat are finding more training and services-oriented revenue in the open source world.

Szulik compared his company’s decision to provide a desktop version of its Linux product to listening to the siren’s song in Homer’s Odyssey. Obviously he meant that his customer’s have been luring Red Hat to return to the desktop, however he may have evoked the wrong sort of classical image.

Since the announcement of the Fedora project, many developers in the community have wondered just how they can participate in this project and influence its direction. For the most part they are still wondering. For your amusement, we recommend reading the following transcript, unearthed by Konstantin Ryabitsev and posted to fedora-devel, which describes those interactions in detail.

A lot of people have heard of GNU/Linux (more commonly referred to as just "Linux") and are having trouble finding out what the differences are between different versions -- or distributions -- that are available. This article will outline the differences between several popular GNU/Linux distributions and similar operating systems.