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SourceForge Enterprise Edition

The reporting and collaboration features of VA Linux\'s SourceForge Enterprise Edition will help managers gain better insight into application development projects done in highly distributed environments.

Linux and Open Source has a new voice coming

LinuxRadio is a voice for those who support or are looking to find information on the Open Source Movement with the Linux OS. LinuxRadio is a main stream internet station that provides a forum for the Open Source community to provide the masses with the current news of Linux and the Open Source Movement.

Netscape 6.2: This one works

I have had experiences with Mozilla and earlier versions of Netscape that, to put it kindly, were less than satisfactory. As someone who works online all day, a browser is my single most important piece of software, and browsers have been my biggest disappointment in Linux. Now I\'m using Netscape 6.2 and, for the first time in years, I am happy with the browser on my screen.

FreeBSD Versus Linux Revisited

Many people say FreeBSD has a very good virtual memory manager. Now, with the new VM engine in Linux as of 2.4.10, things might look different, so I prepared a new test environment for the benchmark.

Linux Journal Editors\' Choice Awards

The Linux Journal Editors\' Choice Awards are open to both open-source and proprietary software, and among this year\'s picks in the software categories you\'ll find representations of both.

Battle for the Desktop: Why Linux Isn\'t Winning

Linux has several advantages over Windows; it\'s more stable, cheaper (free, if you\'re able to download it), comes with tons of free software and will happily run on systems too small for Windows. So why isn\'t Linux being used on most of the PCs in the world?

Eric S. Raymond: Thank you, Microsoft, but no thanks!

In remarks at a Microsoft stockholders\' meeting, Bill Gates recently claimed that Microsoft was responsible for the success of open source.\"Really,\" he said \"the reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that\'s identical with millions and millions of machines.\"

Apache 2.0 to debut Monday--partway

Covalent Technologies will release its long-awaited version 2.0 of the Apache Web server software Monday--ahead of software from the larger Apache project itself.

Microsoft seeks Linux-bashing .NET evangelist

Linux-bashing remains high on the list of qualifications for a job with The Beast, it seems. An eagle eyed reader spotted this in the brief for a technical marketing position at Microsoft banging the drum for .NET:- "The Developer Evangelist will be responsible for identifying and engaging J2EE and Linux focused developers in existing accounts, ISVs, and SIs as well as existing Visual Studio customers."

GNU libc 2.2.4 release notes include hard words for Richard Stallman

An otherwise typical set of release notes for the latest version of GNU libc ended in an angry broadside against Richard Stallman, accusing the Free Software Foundation's President of trying to stage a "hostile takeover" of the project's development. According to Ulrich Drepper, a Red Hat developer and the GNU libc maintainer, Stallman's efforts to control the project failed after a steering committee designed to handle policy and planning issues "acknowledged the status quo" on the project.