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Microsoft and Yahoo!, who between them control the accounts of around 300million people, dominating the email market, are considering charging for every one sent.

Exchanging vendor lock-in for Linux and freedom of choice in messaging software sounds like a good idea. But it will flop if enterprise-strength messaging applications aren't available on Linux. Also, it will fail if your company isn't ready for Linux. Never fear! Top tools and good decision criteria are covered in this interview with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com messaging expert and Scalix CEO Julie Hanna Farris.

This tutorial shows you how to use the GNU text utilities collection to process log files, documentation, structured text databases, and other textual sources of data or content. The utilities in this collection have proven their usefulness over decades of refinement by UNIX/Linux developers, and should be your first go-to choice for general text processing tasks.

Foreword: This essay by Matt Asay explains why he and others organized the inaugural Open Source Business Conference, set to take place March 16-17 at the St. Francis Hotel on Union Square in San Francisco.

Right on the heels of the KDE 3.2.1 release, Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade.

allAfrica.com posts an introduction to Open Source type of article.

Virtual instrumentation specialist National Instruments has developed commercial Linux drivers for its motion controllers, and has added Linux support to its Motion Hardware Driver Development Kit for those wishing to develop their own drivers.

The Government approved US$20 million for nine OSS projects, to be implemented through 2008. The plan also targets a contingent of programmers specialising in OSS application and development as well as IT products that meet criteria and Vietnam’s OSS application requirements.

Alan Cox discovered that the isag utility (which graphically displays data collected by the sysstat tools), creates a temporary file without taking proper precautions. This vulnerability could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking isag.

Open source software needs to be more widely used if the next wave of technology is to fully take off, IBM's Vice President of Technology and Strategy, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, said Monday.

A year after it launched its Centrino chip package for building notebooks with wireless networking abilities, Intel has begun a public project to let Linux take advantage of the hardware.

A vulnerability was discovered in KDE where the path restrictions on cookies could be bypassed using encoded relative path components (e.g., "/../"). This means that a cookie which should only be sent by the browser to an application running at /app1, the browser could inadvertently include it with a request sent to /app2 on the same server.

In an effort to help its large-scale customers conserve bandwidth and speed up the delivery of online music, Napster is using open standards technology from IBM as part of a cache-management system, the company says.

Escaping enterprise messaging application and services lock-in isn't impossible, not if you exchange Exchange for Linux. So says Julie Hanna Farris, whose faith in Linux and open source software is so strong that she founded an alternative messaging solutions company, Scalix. Corp.

Generally speaking, this is the only book about Qt that discusses a recent version of Qt, so programmers who want to really learn Qt should definitely take a look at this offering. It not only explains how to program for Qt, but also, in some cases, why the API is the way it is. If you are looking into coding a multi-platform application that isn't Java-based, this is the book you need.

Beta is last-chance for changes that impact localizations so get those string changing fixes and features landed ASAP or let drivers@mozilla.org know if you're going to have trouble getting them in before Beta.

Linare Corporation was very kind to send us a Linare PC for a hardware review (software review will follow in a few weeks). The Linare PC is currently selling via Wal-Mart or via Linare's online shop for only $199.95 US and it comes pre-loaded with Linare Linux 1.0. Is this PC a good first computer option or an adequate home solution? Read on to find out.

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in Mozilla 1.4.

Corsaire discovered that a number of HTTP user agents contained a flaw in how they handle cookies. This flaw could allow an attacker to avoid the path restrictions specified by a cookie's originator.

A vulnerability in gdk-pixbuf versions before 0.20 exists that could allow a malicious BMP file to crash the Evolution mail client. The updated packages have been patched to use gdk-pixbuf 0.22.0's BMP- handling code.