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Source: Slashdot

Source: ZDNet Australia

Despite a recent surge in interest in Linux, it will fail to make much of an impression on the desktop, claims a Gartner analyst. Linux will be deployed on no more than five percent of desktops over the next two to three years because of a lack of viable applications, claimed Gartner research director Phil Sargeant on Thursday evening at the Gartner Symposium and ITXpo.

Source: NewsFactor

Open source software has surpassed Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Latest News about Microsoft software in terms of security Relevant Products/Services from IBM problems, according to an Aberdeen Group report.
"Open source software, commonly used in many versions of Linux, Unix, and network routing equipment, is now the major source of elevated security vulnerabilities for IT buyers," the report stated.

Source: LEAF Project

LEAF is an easy to use embedded Linux network appliance for use in small office, home office, and home automation environments. Although it can be used in other ways, it's primarily used as a gateway/router/firewall for Internet leaf sites.
After 1 alpha, 4 betas and 4 rc releases, Bering 1.0-stable is finally out! This (2.4.x kernel + Shorewall) LEAF distribution has been updated with Shorewall 1.3.10 and minor bug fixes in rc4. This should the last release before a while :-)

Source: OS Opinion

Lindows is a Linux-based operating system that promises to make using Linux as easy as Windows. Indeed, its name suggests a combination of Linux and Windows -- but what exactly is this distribution that has found its way onto Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) shelves? Is it the next big thing or just good marketing?

Ever wanted to clone your database for testing? This article gives you the basics of cloning a DB2 database for the Linux and UNIX Operating System.

L33tdawg: Hey IBM! Stop being such cheapskates (using us for free advertising!) and buy some bloody ads mate! *grin*.

Source: ZDNet UK

An updated version of SE Linux has been released, adding muscle to the operating system's beefed-up security features
Two companies announced on Friday a new version of Security-Enhanced Linux, in a bid to build business from additions to the bare-bones operating system.

Source: The Register

Source: LWN.net

This article is a continuation on a series about GNU text utilities. It takes a look at cat -- the command that UNIX lovers love to love, and UNIX haters love to hate. Often you need to process several files as one and save the results of such processing to a single output file. The cat (short for "concatenate") command takes one or more files on its input and prints them to its output as a single file.