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.
The New South Wales Police chief information officer says open-source systems deployed by the state's police force are just as reliable as proprietary systems.
Several servers belonging to the Debian Project, maintainers of the Debian Linux distribution, were compromised and subsequently pulled offline last week.
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.
Linux users can now run Office XP on Linux following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.
Linux users can now run Office XP on Linux following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.
A serious security vulnerability has been found in the ubiquitous Sendmail software, which processes 60-70 percent of the world's e-mail messages.
Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.
Former Ximian chief executive David Patrick, now a general manager at Novell, says the Office productivity suite is the key to breaking Microsoft's hold on the desktop.
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.
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