Trolltech, citing enhanced revenues from the release of QT/Unix under the GPL as well as a desire to promote open source programming communities, announced they will do the same with their Qt/Embedded toolkit.

Linux-Mandrake 7.2 is immediately available via different Internet servers through. With this new version, MandrakeSoft confirms its commitment to empowering people by releasing a fully-secured solution which is one of the most complete and easy-to-use operating systems ever.

The Open Source movement is an extremely powerful model for software

development and advancement, and emerging economies like India particularly

have a lot to gain from adopting it, according to John Perry Barlow,

self-styled "Net prophet."

Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) and

an outspoken proponent of free speech in digital media, gave an address at

the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, as part of a two-city tour in

India which also included Bombay.

Ext2fs, a static filesystem, is a major stumbling block preventing widespread use of Linux as a database server, among other things. Journaling filesystems are superior to static filesystems when it comes to guaranteeing data integrity and even when it comes to flat-out filesystem performance.

This is the first of a three part series that explores Unix security. In this installment, basic file and directory permissions are explained.

With the exploding popularity of Linux, several efforts have taken root to keep Linux from blowing apart at the seams, with different manufacturers and distributors corrupting the open-source nature of its code.

Jon "maddog" Hall shares his thoughts on the increasing size of Linux distributions, the virtues of Linus' iron-hand rule over the kernel, the Linux Standard Base project, and what would happen if Microsoft went open source.

This Article will take you through the setup of a scalable ISP service based on LDAP and Linux. It will touch many of the issues and questions asked. You will then use a tool called ISPMan to manage it.

Some of the biggest ISPs authenticate everything they can against their LDAP trees, starting with RADIUS (Remote Authentication DIalin User Service), going over to the complete employee index, up the authentication of the firewalls and SecureID cards. A service like RADIUS runs fast into a timeout, so think about this before you plan your LDAP tree.

With this release, Caldera dangles an Internet carrot in front of Windows users, hoping to lure some of them with eDesktop's quick, easy Internet access features. Building on the highly stable and successful OpenLinux platform, Caldera again delivers a product that should attract current Caldera users, users of other distributions, and newcomers to the Linux community.