The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as that of proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study has found.

First step in this is to have a Security as a Policy - A Security Policy.

With out this you are not having clear definition to what you want to

protect and what to do when you find any violations. I would suggest

to have a look at Site "Security Handbook" an RFC 2196.

A GNU/Linux distributions has lots of softwares coming along with it as

its installation part,so a GNU/Linux user needs to be aware of what

packages he should install on the server systems which he is going to

use in production environment.

In response to the Cnet, June 24, 2003, Perspectives column by Richard Wilder, "Open source's moment of truth": Mr. Wilder takes the preposterous claims from SCO Group as a cautionary tale regarding open-source adoption. He's mistaken.

A group of Xbox security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox game console without a so-called mod chip and will go public with the technique if Microsoft won't talk to them about releasing an official Linux boot loader.

Database software specialist Oracle continued to spread the word of Linux, and its support for the open source operating system, by backing it up with a new software tool to help companies migrate their existing Oracle E-Business Suite applications to Linux.

Over the past several years, corporate America has warmed to open-source software programs such as the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server.

If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.

A recent conference in India offered examples of how FLOSS affects everything from education and health services to internal software markets.

The open-source development community is an international treasure and should be protected as such, said veteran Linux advocate Jon "Maddog" Hall, in a talk in Birmingham that emphasized the role of open-source software outside the United States.

Novell will launch a bundle of its network services running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server later this year.

And in 2004, the entire services stack from Netware will be running on Linux.