Software puts local e-forums within every council's reach

New open source software is now available to help councils set up online forums focused specifically on local issues at little to no cost, eGov monitor can report.

There was a time when Linux was associated with nerds in their bedrooms toiling away on DIY Linux kits, driven by visions of a Windows-free world. These were the believers and on the other side there were the sceptics.

Programmers are working to debug and speed performance of the newly released GCC 4.0, the compiler at the foundation of the open-source and free-software movements.

The OpenBSD team prides itself on producing one of the most—if not the most—secure operating systems in the world. If you are concerned about keeping the sensitive data within your organization protected, consider OpenBSD. As a member of the 4.4BSD-lite family of operating systems, OpenBSD sets itself apart by claiming to be "secure by default".

Hidden away in Building 17 — when he's not on the road, working to counteract the impression among open-source backers that Microsoft is the devil personified — is Bill Hilf.

As enterprise IT begins to more aggressively consider Open Source options beyond Linux, the four other members of the LAMP-J stack often get the lion’s share of the attention.

That's a myth. The reality is a developers' group of mostly tech pros working like they would on corporate projects -- with some differences

If Linux programmers get nightmares, it's about this date and time. Immediately after that second is crossed, current computer systems running on Linux will grind to a halt or go into a loop. This will trip up a lot of databases.

The Linux Audio message is getting across loud and clear thanks to the hard work of Fervent Software, the UK's leading music technology software house.

When you think of the PowerPC processor, chances are you’ll think of just two platforms and, by association, two operating systems. Apple’s Mac OS X, which runs on Apple’s own hardware, and the AIX Unix operating system from IBM, which runs on their own PowerPC platform systems. In reality, there is a wide choice of potential operating systems that work on a wide range of PowerPC platforms. If you want a Unix-like alternative to AIX, particularly a free software one, then Linux seems the obvious choice, but there are others. BSD provides a Unix operating system, but with a heritage that goes back a lot further than Linux. If you chose to go down the BSD route, what solutions are available for the PowerPC platform? And, are they as good as Linux and proprietary alternatives?

It's weird how things can come back to bite you. Microsoft Corp. killed off the competition for office software suites and became a de facto monopoly in the area, with what result? The competition is back and, this time, it's free!

Are you a Linux beginner, looking for a distribution that is easy to get into and learn. Check out Simply Mepis at www.mepis.com. It is designed for ease of use. Simply Mepis is Simply the best for everyone from beginners to advanced users that simply want to use their computers without all the hassles.

As Linux became a viable option for the government, FBI officials started a project that grew to become the Emergency Response Network (ERN), a Linux-based information-sharing system that observers say is ready for large enterprises.

The Software Industry Promotion Agency (Sipa) plans to introduce 25 Windows-based, open-source, free computer software programs to the public in July, a move that is expected to save the country more than a billion baht annually.

Emulex Corporation, the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced that its latest Fibre Channel host bus adapter driver version 8.0 is now part of the Linux "upstream" kernel published by the Linux community, effective with kernel version 2.6.12-rc3.

A small group of free software advocates has released a declaration of intent to create the Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA). Aided by both the FSF and FSF Europe, the organizing committee hopes to both address regional concerns and to work with other branches of the FSF to promote and defend free software internationally.

Put an Asterisk beside Mark Spencer, who created open-source software for telephone switches

According to Qualcomm, the integrated support for Linux available on the MSM6550 chipset is designed to eliminate the need for a separate coprocessor altogether, in addition to helping reduce design costs and complexity compared to multichip implementations traditionally required to run third-party operating systems.

New open source software is now available to help councils set up online forums focused specifically on local issues at little to no cost, eGov monitor can report.

A migration to Linux by Priority Healthcare Corp. could signal that yet another industry is about to get on board with the open source operating system.

Today MEPIS announced a partnership whereby Technalign of Pennsauken, NJ will become the manufacturer and master distributor of SimplyMEPIS and other upcoming MEPIS Linux products.

The latest nightly builds of Mozilla Firefox include a new feature that significantly improves the speed of the Back and Forward buttons.

Today, PC system security is paramount. Hackers, viruses, and malware usually target Windows systems, so using Linux moves you off the bull's-eye. Execute from a LiveCD and your system becomes nearly invulnerable; any damage done can be corrected by a simple reboot.

(KANOTIX 09-2004-A Screenshots by OSDir.com)

The Linux Test Project test suite, ltp-20050505, has been released. The latest version of the testsuite contains 2900+ tests for the Linux OS.

Jimmy Wennlund has been doing to Linux what Apple has done to Tiger: Make it boot faster. Jimmy wrote initng, a replacement for the Sys-V style "init" application.

Registration for ApacheCon Europe 2005 is now open at www.apachecon.com.
Check out the website and make sure to save money by registering prior
to June 17, 2005.

ApacheCon Europe 2005 will be held in Stuttgart from July 18 to 22, 2005
with seminars that cover the whole spectrum of Open Source topics from
the legendary Apache HTTP Server to scalable Internet architectures,
Web Services, PHP, mod_perl, Java, XML, and Subversion.

If your office thinks legacy but still necessary Win32 applications are holding it back from moving to Linux, your office should think again.

Mark Taylor believes that OpenLDAP is the catalyst that will finally make open source fully enterprise-ready. And he's willing to stake his business on it.

It appeared the open source community had a bone thrown to it by VIA, which announced open driver source codes earlier this month. However, those experienced in providing the needed Linux drivers, including developers of the Unichrome Project, said there are still proprietary roadblocks in using VIA's released drivers with Linux.

The Department of Veteran's Affairs (DVA) has chosen to upgrade its ageing Microsoft Office 97 software suite with Office 2003, shunning a tender that included OpenOffice from open source software specialist Single Point.