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Oracle has announced the availability of its Validated Configurations program, a service that gives customers and prospects guidelines on how to best run Oracle atop Linux. The program is the latest manifestation of a longstanding Oracle commitment to Linux, explains Monica Kumar, Oracle's Senior Manager of Linux Product Marketing. "We made ...

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Novell on Monday plans to officially launch Bandit, an open-source identity management project that was quietly started earlier this year. As previously reported by CNET News.com, the Bandit project aims to create a set of open-source components for services that use identity data in online transactions, whether corporate or consumer. By ...

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The tax authority in Lower Saxony, Germany is migrating 12,000 desktops to SuSE Linux and the open source KDE desktop. The project, which is moving the taxmen's PCs onto open software, is "one of the most important in the history of IT" at the office, according to the regional tax office ...

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HPSDR -- The High Performance Software Defined Radio Web site documents the effort of a group of hams who are working on an open source, GNU-type hardware and software project intended as a "next generation" SDR. Interested experimenters and SDR enthusiasts, including such luminaries as Phil Covington, N8VB, Lyle Johnson, ...

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Linux may be the catalyst that boosts sales of blade servers in India. As vendors such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Dell grapple with new strategies to sell the sleek and expensive blade servers, the Linux operating system (OS) is the trump card they play to win over cost-conscious ...

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ext2hide is a proof-of-concept program that seeks to magically hide confidential data and files where nobody will look for them. It accomplishes its magic by making use of otherwise abandoned space in the superblocks in ext2/ext3 filesystems. Even though Jason McManus, the author of the code, has been testing and ...

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I have been investigating the situation with firefox 1.0.8 in Breezy given the presence of known security problems in 1.5.0.3 in Dapper (for which we are planning to deploy 1.5.0.4 from upstream just as soon as dapper-security is open). The situation isn't very good, and none of our options look ...

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Q&A: The maker of code sleuthing technology for open-source applications sees the market growing swiftly as more enterprises adopt open-source technology. Be the first to comment on this article Mark Tolliver Palamida has been in the business of helping customers weed through their code as they adopt open-source solutions. Mark Tolliver, CEO ...

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An open-source web services startup, WSO2, has raised U.S.$4 million in capital from Intel and along with it, the perception of open-source companies as viable businesses. Intel is WSO2’s sole investor at present. While it has a history of investing in open-source startups such as MySQL, JBoss and Zend Technologies, Intel’s ...

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