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Rescuing a ViewSonic Tablet from the junkpile by installing SuSE 9.0.

The United Nations World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) has been doomed to failure from the start. That may seem odd, given both the abundance of free and open source software and the apparent interest by the UN in making such tools available to the impoverished -- a combination that seems a no-brainer. But in spite of the alignment of resource, need, and interest, the WSIS plan will fail. Here's why.

Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5.1, the company's enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS), has also been certified for Silicon Graphics SGI Advanced Linux Environment software.

This week the newsletter features an interesting interview with a Gentoo developer, and diverse other news.

A vulnerability in phpMyAdmin which was not properly verifying user generated input could lead to a directory traversal attack.

A vulnerability has been discovered by in the ptrace emulation code for AMD64 platforms when eflags are processed, allowing a local user to obtain elevated priveleges.

Lately we've received many questions from users wanting to know which distribution they should choose and how to go about obtaining them. Today we've addressed this by pointing to a topic from the forums that should help you get a head start on what's what and where to get it. Read on for more information.

At the BMW WilliamsF1 team's headquarters, HP announced it played a critical role in the construction and aerodynamic modelling of the groundbreaking new shape of the FW26 car.

Could the PC builder market be headed for a potential train wreck akin to the ongoing clash between SCO and the Linux community?

This release fixes a lot of bugs and regressions from the bonoboui->libegg port.

I'll show an easy way for yum repository building with wget and how to use it...The problems will be shown here starting from "How to install" famous rpm commands and then going to more interesting ones.

The city of Munich's plan to migrate its workers from Windows to Linux has hit a few snags, according to a story in Wired. Financial concerns over the cost of the project coupled with political concerns from within the city government have slowed the city's efforts to convert its 14,000 computers to the open-source operating system, and now the city has requested a complete briefing on the costs associated with the project.

There's a lot of glee in Linuxville right now, and Microsoft's name is mud in some circles. But the Linux community's reports of its death are premature.

The rising business trend toward using open source software platforms has brought an increase in the number of critical applications deployed on Linux and BEA WebLogic. For many organizations, in fact, WebLogic deployments are their first major Linux installation.

IBM Corp. researchers are bringing text-to-speech capabilities to the Linux desktop.

Previously, production versions of IBM’s text-to-speech engine had been available only for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms...

This update adds support for NTLM authentication[2]. In conjunction with a previous samba update[3], this allows the use of encrypted authentication between the client browser and the proxy server if the browser supports NTLM (Internet Explorer and Mozilla 1.6 or higher at this time) and if the proxy machine is a member of an NT domain.

This update provides new samba packages which were compiled with the --with-winbind-auth-challenge option. This option enables NTLM challenge-response authentication in winbind and is used, for example, in conjunction with the squid proxy server[2] to avoid the use of clear text proxy passwords between the client browser and the proxy server.

Which Linux distribution is the most popular? For many players in the open source realm, that answer depends on which part of the globe is counting, and how.

LinuxDevices.com's fourth annual Embedded Linux Market Survey is coming to a close, so vote now if you wish your voice to be heard by the many industry decision makers, market analysts, and developers who read and are influenced by this important study.

SE/Linux has been available for download for several years, but until now there has been no "officially supported" Linux distribution that included SE/Linux enhancements. Lack of major distro support required individual users to download patches and integrate them into their own systems.