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Running Your Business on Linux As many of our readers already know, all the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine have day jobs where we use Linux and open source. Some like Paul Sterne of Open-Xchange (www.openexchange.com) and Jon Walker of Linux migration specialis... Feb. 16, 2006  Reads: 12,565

Empowering Linux Users to Reclaim Their E-mail Experience The Linux community - nearly 29 million platform users - has been plagued for years by spam which, according to industry statistics, is dramatically on the rise. Despite relentless efforts to stop it (including billions of dollars... Feb. 28, 2006  Reads: 7,256

Fedora Software Excerpted in part from Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4 Bible by Christopher Negus (Wiley Publishing, 2005). In its Fedora Core Linux system, the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project aims to only include software that is Open Sou... Feb. 28, 2006  Reads: 16,025

Integrating OSS into Your Environment Developers in an enterprise need to use the best tools for the job. Increasingly they have found that Open Source projects such as Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, Eclipse, and others are ready for prime time. However, the stack is rarely c... Feb. 27, 2006  Reads: 6,866

Using the Open Source Model to Prepare for More Security Threats in 2006 IT managers planning for possible security threats in 2006 might be tempted to look back at some of the big security debacles of 2005 for inspiration. A major security breach at CardSystems exposed the personal data of more than 40 ... Feb. 26, 2006  Reads: 11,459  Replies: 1

Open Content The beginning of a new year is a good time to sit back and reflect. Where is the open source movement going? What is the next frontier? In 2005, we explored the business models of the open source movement. We almost got through the ... Feb. 24, 2006  Reads: 7,889

Your Next Phone Might Be Running Linux - Should You Care? With more than 15 million Linux handsets having already shipped into the market, most in the last year, the promise of Linux for the mobile phone industry is becoming a reality. Linux handsets have primarily been marketed into Asia ... Feb. 23, 2006  Reads: 6,012

Getting the Cool Stuff on Fedora Software Repositories One of the more frustrating features of a Fedora Core installation is its lack of popular multimedia and driver support as well as alternative applications like Abiword. But, with a few simple steps you can easily access a large c... Feb. 22, 2006  Reads: 18,497  Replies: 1

OSDL Mobile Linux Initiative The global mobile phone market is enjoying explosive growth. With annual unit sales in the hundreds of millions, Gartner analysts estimate that by 2009 the worldwide installed based will top 2.6 billion mobile handsets. For the Li... Feb. 21, 2006  Reads: 15,755  Replies: 2

American Steel Realizes Benefits from Linux Infrastructure The advantages of running Linux are well known - lower costs, better adherence to open standards, no domineering corporate power, better security, etc. However, there's one area where Linux users are subject to all the same challe... Feb. 20, 2006  Reads: 8,781

The Holy Grail of Networking Recent studies show Linux taking a large and growing share of the global data center market, as well as making incipient gains on the desktop. Traditional IT deployment, however, doesn't tell the whole Linux story - this open sour... Feb. 19, 2006  Reads: 9,484  Replies: 2

The Ubuntu Experience Ubuntu Linux is a new experience for me. Having used only Red Hat's Fedora Core, I was anxious to try out the recently released Ubuntu 5.10 (available from Ubuntu's Website at www.ubuntu.com). I was not disappointed. After waiting... Feb. 28, 2006  Reads: 11,524  Replies: 4