Transmeta, the company that developed the Crusoe processor, is to release a version of Linux, tailored to run on Crusoe-based devices. The move follows a growing trend of collaboration between Linux developers and manufacturers of handheld computers.

An international recruiter from Microsoft's Redmond headquarters has approached Linux user groups in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide seeking software developers interested in joining the company's Windows core networking team.

If a man can write a better book,

preach a better sermon,

or make a better mouse trap than his neighbor,

though he builds his house in the woods,

the world would eventually make a beaten path to this door.

- Emerson

In the last three articles in this series, we looked at the concept of an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and its implementation on your network. We discussed some of the top-notch tools like Tripwire and Snort, that you could use as your Swiss army knife in detecting intrusions into your network.

Nicholas Petreley hosted the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo's second Golden Penguin Bowl in New York and brought down the house with his questions and contestants, including Linus Torvalds.

"Like LPI, Sair divides the mastery of Linux into three levels. To become certified at each level, you must pass four exams (available through Prometric testing centers). As of this writing, only the first level--"Sair Linux and GNU Certified Administrator" (LCA)--is available."

Linux has always played a key role in servers, but now the door is open for Linux to penetrate the heart of the Internet: the high-speed router. These devices, made popular by Cisco Systems, create the Internet by moving data from place to place.

Automount and autofs are powerful tools and ease file systems management. They allow all the users of one machine to mount different file systems automatically the very moment they are needed.

Linuxcare CEO and co-founder Arthur Tyde says he fully expects to complete a widely anticipated merger with Linux software developer Turbolinux, marking the beginning of what Tyde expects will soon be a wave of consolidation within the open software movement.

"We will build a small device with 2 LEDs and one pushbutton. A green LED will indicate when the pushbutton is active and a slowly blinking yellow LED indicates that the server is working or still in the process of shutting down. To shut down the server you press the pushbutton for 3 seconds."

"PGP has always been a popular choice for public key encryption. K Mail works fine with PGP. I tried a combination of K Mail and PGP 5 on a Linux machine." FreeOS has an article on using Mutt with GPG here.