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You may never have heard of Swatantra Software, but Linux, open source and free software should ring a bell. In January, attending the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) as a freelance journalist, I got to know this term. Swatantra in the Hindi language means freedom. This is what the Free Software Foundation of India is promoting: Freedom in the use, modification and exchange of software.

Red Hat, the authorized open source and linux provider, announced ISDAC, the CDAC centre for Excellence, as a authorized preferred training partner.

Efforts across the country to recycle old computer hardware have earned the support of communities looking to supply families, schools, and nonprofits with IT connectivity. Now the same principle is being applied to software, as nonprofits caught between data collection and storage requirements and IT licensing costs turn to free and open source software.

Linux Security - A cause for growing concern, or a much ado about nothing? Seeking to dispel all the recent scandalous attacks against Linux, Javed Tapia, Director, Red Hat India, drives the point home in a candid interview with CXOtoday.

Security Enhanced Linux, a “hardened” version of the open source software that was helped into existence by a US spy agency, is on the verge of gaining broad acceptance, a local developer says.

BakBone Software, a global provider of data protection software, today announced BakBone's NetVault(TM) software is now supported across all IBM eServer pSeries systems running 64-bit Linux on IBM's Power Architecture processors. This announcement follows IBM's recently announced support for BakBone's Linux Advantage program, a joint marketing and development initiative.

A new operating system war is brewing on desktop PCs, and it's not Windows vs. Mac, or even Windows vs. Linux. This time, it's Linux vs. Linux. Red Hat and Novell — already foes in the market for Linux server software — are taking their fight to the personal computer. The Linux firms hope to sell businesses a single, companywide software platform for both servers and desktops. [Thanks to DesktopLinux.com for the link.]

Over 750 Applications Now Certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Launches Online Solutions Catalog with Intel for Customers Seeking to Deploy Enterprise Linux Solutions.

Commercial vendors and Linux distributors are listening to the masses -- and fueling the hype -- with plans to shore up a viable Linux desktop solution for the enterprise. IBM, for one, has made noise about moving to Linux on its desktops internally. Sun has released its Java Desktop System and Novell/SuSE and Red Hat have also made some rumblings lately about renewing their commitments to a Linux desktop. Novell has already brought in a couple of heavyweights with its acquisition of Ximian last year and SuSE Linux AG in January. Not only did Novell snare the popular Ximian technology, but it brought aboard luminaries Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza. Friedman will deliver the keynote at this week's Real World Linux Conference, and in this interview, he discusses Novell's commitment to the Linux desktop, barriers, misconceptions and the importance of success stories.

Almost inevitably the question arises: Is Linux ready for the desktop? Just about everyone has the answer to this question. We thought it was time to put an end to the debate, to resolve the issue once and for all. To do this we decided to put the question to some of the greatest scientists of all time, for what better authorities are there than the finest thinkers, the keenest minds ever to grace us with their thoughts.

Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).

It isn’t fending off an emerging challenge to its monopoly. And it can’t extend its dominance into new sectors. Is this the AT&T syndrome?

Open source is usually associated with lower costs, but companies will have to pay attention to many details to get the value; a Linux TCO equation

John Lewis has become one of the first UK blue-chip organisations to deploy Linux on a strategic business application.

Nigel McFarlane's Rapid Application Development with Mozilla is now available as a PDF download from Bruce Perens' Open Source series at InformIT. Please support the author and buy the book if you find it to be useful.

In releasing YaST (Yet Another Setup Tool) to open source, Novell has thrown down the welcome mat to management solutions aimed at homes and small businesses as well as enterprises, according to Novell officials.

O'Reilly & Associates founder Tim O'Reilly is fond of quoting an Athenian in ancient Greece who said, "The difference between a man and a sheep is that the sheep just bleats, but a man keeps saying the same thing in different ways until he gets what he wants." O'Reilly takes the Athenian's tack, declaring, "There are many things that I want to have happen in this world. I keep talking about them and bit by bit, some of them are coming true."

This review is a brief overview and first look of Red Hat's Fedora Linux. Never doubt Red Hat to produce a top quality Linux distribution. Since Red Hat is moving more towards the enterprise and away from the home, they have released Fedora which is the proving ground for Red Hat Linux Enterprise. Basically, all things that could be enterprise start in Fedora. Fedora is a non profit, unsupported OS with the backing of Red Hat.

This update fixes a remote denial of service vulnerabiliy[1] in Apache web-servers which have mod_python enabled (this is not the default in Conectiva Linux). An attacker can crash an apache child process by sending a specially crafted message that triggers the bug in mod_python.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0189 to this issue[2].