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ISP-Planet: "Marty Roesch developed the open source intrusion detection system Snort back in 1998. Three years later, Roesch launched a company, Sourcefire, Inc., to offer a commercial version. "If you think of a car, the engine itself is Snort; the whole car is Sourcefire..."

Crashsystems: "...software updates typically demand an Internet connection, which can make updating difficult if not impossible. There is now a solution though, a new program called Keryx."

Free Software Magazine: "I've been using Fedora (Core and all) on and off for a few years now and its parsimonious attitudes to codecs notwithstanding, the thing that always reduces me to a whimpering, pleading wreck is watching Yum installing a piece of software. I can forgive its tendency to handhold and even to confabulate, but Yum moves with all the speed of a treacle flow at the North Pole."

AnarchismToday: "All in all, 2008 was a pretty good year for Linux, and I'm hopeful 2009 will be even better. Some of the notable changes that come to mind: "

Blog of Helios: "As important as the numbers must be, it's not near as important as something else. Faces and Names. John Adam, Stacy Lynn, Jennifer, Michael Roy, Juanita..."

ZDNet AU: "The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool."

New Linux Kernel Released
Redmond Developer News, CA - 1 hour ago
by Joab Jackson The developers behind Linux have released the latest version of the open source operating system kernel. Version 2.6.28 has a number of ...
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Linux Magazine: "A few server admins had reported Linux crashes right at the New Year's Eve countdown. Linux developers are currently investigating if they had anything to do with the leap second phenomenon."

Linutop Mag: "Flickr offers a vast collection of photos you can use with your OpenOffice.org documents, but trawling hundreds, if not thousands of photos in order to find the right one can be a rather tedious and time-consuming affair. Fortunately, the CCOOo extension can help you to find a photo you like on Flickr without leaving the convenience of your favorite productivity suite."

Jungo and Wisair Announce End-to-End Wireless USB Solution for ...
WELT ONLINE, Germany - 2 hours ago
... today announced the availability of an end-to-end Wireless USB solution for Linux-based and embedded operating systems used in CE devices. ...

OStatic: "And though I like seeing how my hardware and software interact, it is preferable to have things "just work," so I can get what I need done, and then spend the time I saved doing so leisurely poking at my application's innards. There's an inherent danger in the "just works" philosophy, however."

TechRadar: "25 years after Stallman first set the GNU project in motion, what have these ideals achieved, and what can we do to ensure the future of free software? Linux Format spoke to him to find out."

LinuxLinks: "A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users with their daily work in managing their files on a hard drive or other storage device. With terabyte hard disks becoming prevalent, file managers represent an essential tool in managing file systems."

TechRadar UK
Palm's new Nova smartphone will need to make an impact
guardian.co.uk, UK - 3 hours ago
Palm is expected to announce a new smart phone with "amazing" new software on Thursday, but the new hardware and new Linux-based Nova operating system will ...
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BeginLinux: "Here is a scenario where you have Windows users who need to log into an encrypted directory that is mounted on a Linux Samba share. This provides an interesting option for security."

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Meet Google Linux
TechRepublic, KY - 4 hours ago
That’s not surprising since Android is Linux and Linux can run on everything from a toaster to a PS3. What is surprising is that they discovered Android was ...
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Concurrent Announces New MediaHawk(R) Software Release
Reuters - 4 hours ago
About Concurrent Concurrent (Nasdaq: CCUR) is a leading provider of real-time Linux-based computing technologies for commercial and government markets. ...

Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Linux will continue its soaring success in 2009. Yes, Linux is free and free is good but what about its other advantages over commercial Unix flavors and Windows? Here are the top seven reasons why Linux will continue to smash the competition in the face of the economy, the Cloud, and the smart administrator."

Phoronix: "Initial reviews of these new AMD Opteron processors have been very positive, but how do these chips perform with Linux? In this article we have our hands on a few of the fastest Shanghais, the AMD Opteron 2384 clocked at 2.7GHz, as we see how well they compare to the older "Barcelona" Opteron processors."

Happy Assassin: "Tethering is using a cellphone with a data connection as a modem for a computer, connected by a USB cable, so you can access the Internet from the computer. On Linux, the Barry suite, created by Net Direct, lets you do this with most models of the popular Blackberry line of smartphones, along with several other things."