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  • Linux for sale in San Francisco

    Any Linux developer in a coma for the last six years who awoke to the sight of LinuxWorld's trade floor in San Francisco this week would most likely have suffered a severe stroke.

  • In depth: Australia's Samba man gets smartest person gong

    The creator of the popular Samba software, which enables Linux machines to act as Windows file-servers, Andrew Tridgell, has been named Australia's smartest person in the ICT sector by Australia's Bulletin Magazine. ZDNet Australia spoke to Tridgell, and Professor Bill Caelli of Queensland's University of Technology (QUT) -- a runner up on the 'Smart 100' list -- about the state of open source in Australia and the future of ICT and open source.

  • Security company apologises for disclosure foul-up

    A US-based security company has apologised for prematurely disclosing code that took advantage of a serious vulnerability in Samba, the Linux-based file and print sharing software commonly used in Windows environments.

  • United States set to vote 'yes' on OOXML

    The US seems set to vote for Microsoft's Open XML (OOXML) file format be ratified as an international standard; the chair of its technical committee said opposition to the file format was based on spite and anti-Microsoft sentiment.

  • CeBIT: Final day wrap

    CeBIT Australia 2007 has ended on a high, with all exhibitors and visitors polled by ZDNet Australia saying they plan to return next year.

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  • Microsoft learns to live with open source

    Two years ago, software engineer Shaun Walker got an e-mail from a Microsoft product manager, suggesting ways to keep Walker's development project from foundering.

  • The future is...Linux televisions

    Opera board member John Patrick explains why Microsoft's domination of the browser market won't last forever and how Linux will continue to evolve.

  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

  • Keeping the door open...and shut

    A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like?

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