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Source: turbolinux

Turbolinux has announced the availability of a public beta release of Turbolinux 11 Server, a mid-range commercial distributions for servers with long-term support. It is primarily designed for organisations that need a fully-supported operating system for web, mail, proxy, DNS and file servers. The distribution, available for i686 .

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The Open Road: "Proprietary vendors sometimes point to the possibility of open-source fragmentation as one of its great weaknesses believing, as they do, that the vendor should always control its own destiny "

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ZDNet: "Red Hat is the Rodney Dangerfield of open source. (To which the cynic responds, 'yeah, it's dead ')"

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LinuxDevCenter: "The Free Software Foundation has defined Four Freedoms related to software. These freedoms apply to users of software, not necessarily developers "

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Editor's Note: The business of Linux is not perfect. So let me put it to you: if you were in charge of Company X, what would you do? For X=Red Hat or IBM or even Microsoft?

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Cybersource: "Numerous industry observers have long-called for the adoption of policies by competition regulators which will spur competition in the personal computer operating system platform market "

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Sun Developer Network: "Few have been closer to the day-to-day processes involved in open sourcing the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) than Ray Gans "

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Datamation: "The strengths of IBM Lotus Symphony are also its weaknesses "

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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "But easily accessible, affordable Linux support tailored to users' specific technology environments remains elusive "

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Miguel de Icaza's web log: "It did not take long for the IT pundits to declare that having the source code available for .NET is either 'a trap for Mono,' 'the end of Mono' or some similarly low accuracy per bit arguments "

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ArsGeek: "Under this agreement, MandrivaLinux 2008 customers will receive access to TransGaming's Cedega product that will allow them to play hundreds of PC games out-of-the-box "

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vnunet: "Fedora has fixed a 'highly critical' flaw in the OpenOffice suite of products more than two weeks after it was first discovered "

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BusinessWeek: "Jonathan Schwartz wants to return Sun Microsystems to glory by giving away its software "

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The Open Road: "Just when I thought Microsoft couldn't do worse than it's done, I see something like this ad "

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internetnews.com: "Security experts are warning anyone running Java on their computer needs to upgrade their software immediately, regardless of platform "

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LinuxWorld Australia: "It's a topic of fierce debate among high-tech cognoscenti: What's more secure--'open source' code such as Linux and Apache, or proprietary 'closed source' operating systems and applications, Microsoft's in particular ?"

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One Laptop Per Child News: "We now have the results from the first open competition for government purchases of laptops designed for 1:1 implementation in public schools, the Ceibal Uruguay RFP "

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Groklaw: "Here we go: Novell has filed a Motion For Relief From Automatic Stay to Proceed With District Court Action to (I) Apportion Revenue From SCOSource Licenses "

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vnunet: "The head of the Open Invention Network (OIN) has dismissed Microsoft's claims that Linux violates over 200 of its patents "

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LinuxInsider: "Business-targeted open source software has made great strides recently, from CRM systems to business intelligence to server software "

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Tech.Blorge: "UK-based ARM has announced that it and six companies will work together to develop a Linux-based open source platform for next-generation mobile applications "

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Nuxified: " [W]e are issuing the final call for players on all platforms, be it Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS or BSD, to join us as we commence with the first Freedomware Gaming Festival "

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Joyeur: "Even though there aren't DTrace probes for MySQL released yet, we can still get useful information from MySQL "

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Linux.com: "Kino is a video editor that allows you to produce your own video masterpieces using only free and open source software.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

pooslinger writes "I know little to nothing about programming but would like to start, fund, and maintain a GPL linux POS application. I see there are a few available with the majority being closed source. I am currently starting a business and really despise the fact that I will have to spend $2-$5k on a proprietary solution. I would like to create an application where you could take a midrange PC, connect inexpensive touchscreens, barcode readers, thermal printers, credit card readers, etc; scan/input inventory; and begin selling. Something like a Debian POS distribution that boots into X and starts a POS terminal. Does something like this exist, am I just trying to reinvent the wheel?" How have other people approached starting a new GPL project, finding talent, and ensuring the code choices best benefit the community?Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Stony Stevenson writes with news that the head of the Open Invention Network has summarily dismissed Microsoft's claims that Linux violates a number of its patents. Calling the move 'clear FUD', Jerry Rosenthal calls them out by asking for Microsoft to disclose the patents they are worried about. His argument is that if the patents are something to be proud of, if the software giant feels they're sure to succeed in court, there's no need for behind-the-hand namecalling. "Rosenthal believes that, if there are grounds for patent infringement, there would either be easy workarounds or the open source community would find 'prior art' which would invalidate the patent. OIN buys patents on the open market and makes them available to companies royalty free, so long as those companies pledge never to use their own patents to attack open source code.The organisation was set up by IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony and has a war chest of millions of dollars."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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m-stone writes "Online auction house eBay recently did a threat assessment to better understand the forces ranging against them. The company is keeping the fine details under wraps, but the biggest source of danger for the company is apparently botnets. You're never going to guess who was running them. '[Dave Cullinane, eBay's chief information and security officer] noticed an unusual trend when taking down phishing sites. 'The vast majority of the threats we saw were rootkitted Linux boxes, which was rather startling. We expected Microsoft boxes,' he said. Rootkit software covers the tracks of the attackers and can be extremely difficult to detect. According to Cullinane, none of the Linux operators whose machines had been compromised were even aware they'd been infected. Because Linux is highly reliable and a great platform for running server software, Linux machines are desired by phishers, who set up fake websites, hoping to lure victims into disclosing their passwords."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: eWEEK Linux

A new release of the great Linux system repair distribution, SystemRescueCd 0.4, is now available. (DesktopLinux.com)

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

As the Mozilla folks start making plans to plan for the Mozilla 2 codebase, Matt Gertner over at the AllPeers blog has a radical suggestion: Dump the Gecko rendering engine and embrace WebKit.

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Every year, Linux Magazine starts the new year off with a look at the top 20 companies that we think will be particularly influential in the world of open source software. Our editorial crew has some strong opinions in this area, but we're also looking to Linux Magazine readers to sound off and tell us what companies will lead the way in 2008.

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