According to Frank Creighton, the Recording Industry Association of America's chief anti-piracy officer, the community of file swappers that doesn't trade through a central server just isn't enough of a problem to warrant the efforts leveled at independent OpenNap and other Napster clones. He said his organization is watching the protean network but isn't yet bothering to crack down on members.

Joe Brockmeier examines the Slackware Linux init sequence. He talks about how the system initializes services, what the various runlevels are and how to add or remove services from the default install to customize your system.

There is a need for a comprehensive, credible, longitudinal study of the real cost of running a business with open-source versus closed-source proprietary software. The study, though funded by the open-source community, must be conducted by a third-party research firm. The open-source community must commit to publishing in full, the analysts’ findings.

"There's only one compelling reason to switch from the Windows desktop--the importance of your data. A company's data is indispensable to their ongoing operations. Severe data loss is usually followed by bankruptcy. Those giving up liberty for safety eventually find themselves the most unsafe of all."

"This is one of the best moves the Dutch parliament ever made with regards to Information Technology" said Luuk van Dijk, spokesman on software patents for the Dutch Open Source Society. In a novel display of hacker political power, the Open Source Society has been effectively lobbying parliament on the software patent issue.

This new comprehensive educational series provides business partners with in-depth Linux training. It includes technical sessions, certification guidelines, incentives, technical support programs and an overview of IBM's e-business solutions.

Emacs is one of the most preferred editors under Linux. This full-featured screen-based editor has gained enormous popularity due to its ease of use and extensibility. One can be sure that while using emacs, one won't end up in a nightmare situation, as is usually the case with an editor like 'vi'. Although used more often on a Unix-based system, emacs has been ported on a wide variety of Unices as well as DOS and Windows. On the GNU-Linux-based system, it is available in text mode and as an X application.

You can invoke emacs from the command prompt by the following command:

"CodeBase for Linux is particularly well-suited to constrained environments because of its small footprint and low overhead. The library is royalty-free and comes with complete source code. Database programmers can reduce the library size even further by removing modules that are not required."

A fierce debate, between Bob Young (founder and chairman of Red Hat) and Jim Allmouth (senior vice president of PHMs at a large monopoly software firm), over whether open source software really is un-American.

By re-engineering the desktop using Mozilla technology, OEone offers increased functionality supporting all of the standard Internet applications. The company's comprehensive Open-Source software platform can power a host of Internet devices ranging from All-In-Ones, WebPads, SetTop Boxes, and Screen Phones.