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Of course readers of a book learn from it, but authors learn from writing it, too. One of the most surprising things I learned from writing the second edition of Advanced UNIX Programming was how good Linux really is.

"Security certifications and compliance with standards are top priorities for Red Hat and are key drivers of innovation," noted Paul Cormier, executive vice president of Engineering at Red Hat. "We are committed to industry standards and will continue to drive acceptance and adherence of standards, leading by example."

Matthew Szulik, Red Hat Chairman and CEO, will host a press conference in London at 11am BST on May 4, 2004. Mr. Szulik is expected to discuss Red Hat's technical strategy and trends in the adoption of open source by the Enterprise. The conference will be broadcast via a conference call.

KDE announces the immediate opening of registration for the KDE Community World Summit event. Taking place for 9 days (from 21st to 29th of August in Ludwigsburg, Germany) the organizing team is scheduling 5 different event modules.

Security enhanced Linux, a set of kernel modifications and utilities initially developed by the National Security Agency, bolsters the security of Linux systems by enabling administrators to more finely tune data and process permissions. SELinux enforces mandatory access control policies, which limit user and application privileges to the minimum required to do the job. In contrast, most operating systems have DAC (discretionary access control) schemes in which a process has access to everything available to the user who launched it.

With last week release of Mozilla 1.7 RC1 (Release Candidate 1), the Mozilla Community is counting days for the upcoming release of Mozilla 1.7, Thunderbird 0.6 and, specially, Firefox 0.9 (code named One Tree Hill).

Third in Series of White Papers on Security Risks Posed by the Use of Linux in U.S. Defense Systems

Traffic to Weather.com, the Internet arm of cable television's The Weather Channel, has been snowballing, as the company's management continues to push for more robust and customized services. Those facts are keeping Dan Agronow, the Web site's vice president of technology, on his toes as he searches for the best infrastructure to support the content, without breaking the bank.

Thunderbird 0.6 has taken flight! Some of the more promiment features include a new Windows installer, Pinstripe theme for Mac OS X, new artwork, improved junk mail controls, new mail notification in the system dock for Mac OS X, server-wide news filters and a slew of other new features.

OpenBSD 3.5 has been officially released, available for purchase on a 3 CD set that includes builds for the i386, vax, amd64, macppc, sparc, and sparc64 platforms. The release is also available for download from an ftp mirror, including additional builds for the alpha, hppa, hp300, mvme68k, mvme88k, mac68k, and cats platforms. For a fine grained breakdown of fixes and new functionality, refer to the official list of changes made since OpenBSD 3.4.

Linux is making huge gains as the platform of choice for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications. Sun has seen more than 1 million downloads of the Linux version of its latest application server release, and all application server vendors uniformly agree that Linux is a fast growing platform.

In accordance with our errata support policy, our final Red Hat Linux distribution, Red Hat Linux 9, has now reached end-of-life for errata maintenance. This means that as of today May 1, 2004 we will not be producing new security, bugfix, or enhancement updates for this product.

Sun Microsystems Inc. may be selling servers running Linux, but that doesn't mean it is cutting back on the evolution of Solaris. Among its plans, the company is considering offering a free, open source version of its flagship operating system, said Jonathan Schwartz, the company's recently appointed president and chief operating officer.

You may not need a pricey portal for your project if you're willing to consider open-source options. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’ll need a pricey portal for your enterprise or departmental project. The big-ticket suites arguably offer larger feature sets and broader support, but they’re by no means the only deal in town.

In the battle between the free, open-source operating system Linux and proprietary operating systems, IBM Corp. has emerged as Linux’s champion. Now, seeming to take a lesson from its experience with open-source software, the company has decided to make its premier processor architecture, dubbed Power and used as the brains inside many IBM servers and supercomputers as well as Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh PCs, into an open-source technology.