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"KDE Project Ships New Major Release Of Leading Open Source Desktop Environment"

If you are someone who want to install KDE 3.2 today itself but don't have any clue about how to do it, this tutorial is for you.

For those that don't already know, smoothwall is a very slick and easy way to setup a firewall/nat/dhcp server (and more) at home or in a small office very quickly even on old computer equipment. I have used Smoothwall 1.0 in the past and liked its features (although at the time, I did have a problem with Snort failing to start after I updated the software with some fixes...). It served on an old Pentium II 400mhz machine with two NICs inside (network cards). One was the 'green' interface (more about that later) and the other was the 'red' interface. I used that setup for quite a few months, mainly because I wanted to see what alternatives there were to hardware based firewalls (such as DLink gateways/firewalls) that I had been using.

Battered by the MyDoom distributed denial-of-service attack, SCO on Monday took down its old Web site and launched a new one for the duration.

Novell Launches New Certifications to Promote Linux Adoption

"...Once those details are fixed I believe Ark will have earned a place in the first rank of the perennially recommended newbie-friendly distributions, Mandrake, Suse and Red Hat (Fedora). I've found it to be speedy, stable and very easy to use."

In almost every column in this series, I've suggested that you use the man command to learn more about the commands being discussed. This week I'll show you why that's a good idea. Remember, there's a lot more to even the smallest commands, like ls, which lists the contents of a directory, than meets the eye. Let's drill down a bit and find out what else "ls" can do for us other than simply telling us the file names in a directory.

"In an acknowledgement of the growing popularity of Linux among developers, QNX Software Systems has added support for Linux development hosts to its Eclipse-based Momentics embedded development suite. The Momentics development suite supports development targets running QNX Neutrino, a popular, proprietary POSIX-compatible hard real-time OS."

"[Australia] NSW commerce and IT minister John Della Bosca will use a policy and administrative bulldozer, rather than legislation, to create a "level playing field" for adopting open source software"

" The Democratic presidential candidate's tech staff says it embraced open-source systems partly because of Clark's late entry into the race."

"The Eclipse Board of Stewards announced that Eclipse has re-organized, changing from an industry consortium to a not-for-profit corporation with a full-time management organization. A board of directors will be formed to oversee and staff the management organization. The board expects to announce an Executive Director in the coming weeks. IBM originally founded and largely controlled Eclipse."

"Linux 2.6 promises a lot. It will scale to larger systems with more memory and many more devices than its 2.4 predecessor. The operating system also supports more embedded processors than ever before. In short: The kernel is packed with more than enough features to make IT shops take notice."

"Novell launched two new certification programs Monday to ensure that partners and customers can obtain the expertise necessary to support the company's Linux-based solutions."

SOFTWARE giant Oracle has revealed aggressive plans to use Linux throughout its organisation and is advising many of its customers to do the same. My friend, the MoT IT guy, says he wants to deploy Linux. From

"Adoption of Intel Architecture and BEA WebLogic JRockit Help Cut Hardware And Maintenance Costs by 20 Percent, Double System Performance, and 10 Times Cost-Effective"

MontaVista Software today announced that CEO Jim Ready will serve on the board of directors of the newly formed not-for-profit Eclipse corporation, of which MontaVista will be a founding "Strategic" member. Additionally, MontaVista is sponsoring and presenting a session at this week's "Eclipse.con" trade show in Anaheim, Calif.

Java originator and owner Sun Microsystems last week sent an "open letter" to members of Eclipse.org congratulating the organization on its "transition to independence" from founder IBM, and challenging it to work with Sun toward the common, "big picture" goal of promoting the Java platform.

SuSE Linux, swallowed up by Novell late last year, claims that it expects to be several months ahead of its archrival, Red Hat, in releasing a Linux

Editor's note: This letter from the Eclipse Foundation is in response to an open letter to the Eclipse community published here on NewsForge last week. OSDN News Editor Chris Preimesberger also published a commentary on the subject.

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