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Gentoo Technologies, Inc., is no more. It is to be replaced from today by the Gentoo Foundation, an official not-for-profit entity registered successfully in the State of New Mexico.

Novell is an interesting company, and has only become more so since it decided to dive head first into GNU/Linux last year. Nat Friedman, formerly of Novell acquired Ximian and now the veep of Novell's Linux Technologies Group took some time to answer our questions about exactly where the company is heading with GNU/Linux.

[India based] Accel ICIM Systems & Services Ltd today said it was gearing up to capture a major share of business arising from companies converting their software systems to Linux operating systems.

Many tech-savvy users are abandoning Microsoft in favour of more reliable and secure operating systems from the open source community. But the company's dominance is also being challenged by the emergence of new devices with specific performance requirements, Michael Herman reports.

For those of you yearning to learn about Snort Intrusion Detection, here's the chance to do it on the cheap! Linux portal Mad Penguin (in conjunction with Syngress Media) is offering the chance to get a copy of their latest release 'Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection, 2nd Edition' completely free of charge. This is only lasting until the end of the month, so time is short to sign up. Visit Mad Penguin for more details. Additional note: books are signed by Adam Doxtater (co-author and founder of Mad Penguin).

What you do to back up your computers depends on the value of your data and how far you're willing to go. You can hold users responsible for their own backups. Alternatively, you can create and store backups on floppy disks, CDs, tape drives, and so on. You can back up part or all of the data, even in real time.

We're very pleased to announce the public release of Wasabi, a log file-monitoring tool that infrastructure dev Andrea Barisani wrote to replace oak. Wasabi watches a log file for lines matching a user-defined regular expressions and reports on the matches, sending an email as soon as an associated line is found, or reporting periodically.

Sun Microsystems scored a big sales win Monday, landing Canada's elementary and secondary schools as its latest customers for the open source-based StarOffice 7 office productivity suite. The Ontario Ministry of Education acquired StarOffice licenses for all the province's 72 public and Catholic school boards, making it potentially the largest StarOffice 7 delivery in North America. As a result, about 2.5 million students eventually will have access to one of the leading alternatives to Microsoft Office.

There have been many FC2 reviews, littered all over the net. I thought I would do my own, because I have some things I feel Fedora 2 should be praised for, and a few things I think it should reconsider.

Synaptic and APT help Fedora users manage Linux packages.

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being triggered. The improved security feature has been included in 64-bit CPUs from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. since last year, but operating system makers haven't yet built support for the technology into their code...

SourceForge, the world's largest open source software development community, has released the newest version of its Enterprise Grade software namesake from its corporate parent VA Software...But there's a twist to the release this time. SourceForge Enterprise 4.1 is not based on the open source software that runs sourceforge.net. Instead, a company spokesman confirmed, the 4.x generation of SFEE is a complete break from SF.net.

I've been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional seven times. I received the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. I've been publishing Visual FoxPro books since 1998. So it may come rather as a surprise to hear that I've been converting my entire company to Linux over the last couple of years.

Live distributions of Linux let you find out if you are compatible with the open source operating system before you make a permanent commitment.

By Rob Enderle. Linux represents a threat and an opportunity for every software and hardware company. Apple is once again at the crossroads.

Smart Breeding hints at the solution -- think of it as open source agriculture. The real problem with biotechnology is not the technology, its the corporate culture. Think of Monsanto as Microsoft. It spends billions of dollars developing a product, the workings of which are keep secret. It protects its investment with patents and licenses other sorts of security measures...

Example: You have the Linux 2.4.26 kernel source. Fact: You want to install the newest 2.4.xx kernel. Problem: You have GCC-3.4.0 installed. Solution: Temporarily install GCC-3.3.3. Here's where relink comes in!

When you need to keep a connection, such as a voice over IP phone call, up when moving from network, use this feature of the Session Initiation Protocol.

The head of Microsoft Corp's Brazilian business unit has criticized government officials' decision to adopted Linux as motivated by ideology. Emilio Umeoka is reported to have said: "The sectors, ministries and governments with which we have had dialogue we have manage to work well with. Where we have encountered an approach much more ideological, not based on the technology area, we fail to discuss effectively."