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"If you are expecting cute graphical wizards and penguins automating every configuration step for you, that may be true. However, in essense, Slackware is one of the simplest distributions there is if you are proficient with a Linux system."

"In this interview, Red Hat vice president of engineering Brian M. Stevens talked to SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about the distributor's new Open Source Assurance program, the addition of a server provisioning module to its Red Hat Network, the 2.6 kernel and the SCO lawsuit."

"Much progress has been made recently in integrating SELinux into Gentoo Linux..."

While some work remains before we attain ISO certification for the Linux operating system, the designation of the Free Standards Group as a PAS submitter is a

Our IT investment expert, Melanie Hollands, takes a no-nonsense, in-depth look at the current state of Sun Microsystems, corporate owner of the Java franchise and ostensible leader of the Java development community. More than a few people are concerned that after 22 years as an innovator and power player in enterprise IT, that Sun might erode into simply a niche player, dropping out of the same league as Microsoft and IBM in IT power and influence. What's your take on where the house of Solaris is headed? Read on for our writer's assessment ...

The latest release of Samba, a widely used open-source application for file sharing on networks running Microsoft Windows, is for large-scale deployments

"Debian is by far the most appropriate choice for an ARM desktop distribution, for reasons I'll discuss shortly. "

NEW YORK -- A leader of the Open Source movement recently offered sharp words about legal battles in the community, ranging from SCO's fight for code control

By Jacqueline Emigh. Red Hat Inc. officials last week beat the drum about the need for better system administration tools for Linux.

Do you promise not to engage in unethical or anticompetitive behavior against the Linux community?" asked one attendee, while another shouted, "Open the

A fast-spreading e-mail virus appears to be using infected machines to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the sco.com web site, according Property License, but its channel partners are hardly chomping at the

Most people working in the database world know about the open source database MySQL, but fewer are familiar with MaxDB, MySQL's enterprise-class brother. The current MaxDB release is basically a rebranded release of SAP DB with a number of incremental improvements.

As an individual who is participating in the development of free software solutions for enabling e-government access for the blind, I was very interested to learn of the Danish government's effort to create an electronic document repository. However, the government will face some serious problems if it is carried through according to the current plan. Here's why.

says TrustSight Security Hardening can be used with other software, such as ModSecurity, to enhance the security of Apache servers and servers running PHP.

Updated screen packages are now available that fix a security vulnerability which may allow privilege escalation for local users, and possibly remote attacks or getting control of another user's screen.

"A buffer overflow was discovered in mc's virtual filesystem code. This vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion."

"A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the gaim instant messenger program by Steffan Esser, versions 0.75 and earlier. Thanks to Jacques A. Vidrine for providing initial patches."

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in tcpdump versions prior to 3.8.1 that, if fed a maliciously crafted packet, could be exploited to crash tcpdump or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running tcpdump. These vulnerabilities include:

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the gaim instant messenger program by Steffan Esser, versions 0.75 and earlier. Thanks to Jacques A. Vidrine for providing initial patches.

By Special Contributor Ben Mazer - Posted on 2004-01-26 19:52:08. Lately, there has been a "Why linux isn't ready for the desktop" article every 3 days. that it is the first groupware product to run entirely on Linux at both