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Linux solutions for the visually impaired

Linux offers free, powerful tools for accessibility, though it has not matched the software available for Windows.

Interview: Ian Murdock, CEO Progeny Linux Systems

Ian founded the Debian Project, and from 1993 to 1996, Ian was Debian Project Leader, building it from an idea to one of the world's largest and most influential Open Source projects.

Major deals boost Linux community

The open source movement received a massive boost last week as high profile users, including the Pentagon, Norwich Union and retail giant MVC, signed to use Linux for mission critical functions.

Interview: Evan Leibovitch, LPI

LPI is an international, non-profit body formed to develop a distribution-neutral, vendor-independent program of Linux certification.

Red Hat tunes Linux for clustered servers

Red Hat High Availability Server 1.0 lets users cluster individual servers so that if one server fails, another will automatically take over its workload.

Open source policy

Many programmers are holding out for the day when ebusinesses can run using only open source products. A new standard may end the waiting.

Linux is set to start going places

It seems as though the cuddly penguin, the mascot for the Linux operating system, is forever forging into new territory.

Securing Sendmail on Four Types of Systems

Looks at what you can do to secure sendmail on four types of systems: systems with user login access, systems with user accounts but no shell access, POP/IMAP mail servers, and firewalls.

Linux and graphics development

Linux is set to impact both the high-end graphics users as well as desktop

users. Technical demands from sophisticated users are being felt by hardware

producers as they continue to improve drivers and capabilities.

MySQL and PostgreSQL compared

Are the performance differences between the two as stark as the MySQL website

suggests?

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