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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

"Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all ElGamal keys used for signing."

"12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant messenger GAIM that allow remote compromise. All sites using GAIM should upgrade to these new packages."

"US Patent and Trademark Office officials are looking toward Linux and Java technologies as they begin planning for a comprehensive new information technology that it is the first groupware product to run entirely on Linux..."

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is porting OpenView Operations (OVO) to Linux, and renewing OpenView for Unix in the process. Due next 3 days. that it is the first groupware product to run entirely on Linux at both

UPDATED A new Windows virus, called MyDoom (officially, W32/Mydoom@MM) and circulating in the form of a 32K Zip file, began hitting corporate and private e-mail boxes Monday at about 1 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. It masquerades as a Kazaa P2P component and tries to embed itself in the Kazaa shared folder for music and other file-swapping.

OS without flinching. Red Hat Fedora and Mandrake 9.2 run on our test XP machine through VPC2004 without a hitch. However, users II.

AUSTRALIAN government users of Linux are ignoring SCO's offer of licences to protect them from possible legal action over the company's claim to intellectual

Marcia Knous writes in: "The date has been announced for The Mozilla Foundation Developer Day - the event will be held on Friday, February 27th.

New GAIM packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. 12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant messenger GAIM that allow remote compromise. All sites using GAIM should upgrade to these new packages. These are based on GAIM 0.75 with patches for all 12 security issues. Thanks to Stefan Esser of e-matters GmbH for finding and reporting these bugs.

"Red Hat Inc. is accelerating development of Linux for the desktop and handheld clients, but sees considerable work to complete before facing Microsoft Corp. in the consumer market, according to the company's chief executive officer (CEO)."

"The LR101 Linux Router project has achieved its first release, after more than six months of work. LR101 aims to build a VPN router supporting all major routing protocols on a standardized hardware platform based on VIA mini-ITX motherboards running embedded Linux. The initial release includes configuration interfaces, add-ons, and extensions."

Slackware Linux is one of the oldest Linux distributions remaining. Over the years, it has stayed true to its roots and form. Slackware

Regarding the challenges of offshore outsourcing: "But there is one tool that suggests how offshore development can be managed: the SourceForge.net Web site."

Another female colleague I know who runs her own consulting company told me this week that open source has many qualities we traditionally think of as feminine

If there is one topic that can get the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force worked up, such as they were once again last week, it is the topic of network address translation, or NAT. Here's a snapshot of the debates over the use of NAT as a hindrance to the implementation of IPv6, as evidenced by posts to the IETF discussion list.

The products run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Core from the Red Hat sponsored Fedora Project, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows using Cygwin, and Apple Mac

Linux may become the preferred operating system in a full-featured mobile device and handset market in which "there is no economic reason to question why growth will not be explosive," according to Seamus McAteer, senior analyst and managing partner, Zelos Group. "The mass adoption of full-featured handsets will be disruptive," adds McAteer.

Updated Gaim packages that fix a number of serious vulnerabilities are now available.

Updated slocate packages are now available that fix vulnerabilities allowing a local user to gain "slocate" group privileges.