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Samba steps up Linux/Windows connection

Open-source development team Samba on Wednesday released an update to its namesake software for connecting Windows desktop PCs with Linux or Unix servers. Read more »

Novell, Red Hat ready Linux servers

Novell's NetWare-SuSE Linux combination is slated for completion next month. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is also due this summer. Read more »

DRM key to Linux's consumer success?

A RealNetworks executive has claimed that Linux risks being excluded from the consumer market if it does not add support for copyright protection technologies. Read more »

Microsoft, Novell paint target on Red Hat

After years of acrimony, rivals Microsoft and Novell have agreed on at least one high-priority pursuit: cutting down Red Hat's influence. Read more »

Red Hat release Fedora with virtualisation

Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux the company is using to advance virtualisation, programming tools and other software at the frontier of open-source development. Read more »

Mac community must wake up to security

Apple Macintosh users believe they are immune from security problems and need to wake up to the potential of attack -- before they are rudely awoken by a destructive piece of malware. Read more »

Microsoft working on file-sharing application

Microsoft is working on its own file-sharing application, code-named Avalanche. Read more »

Samba 3.2 adds cluster support

The Samba project on Tuesday released a major update to the file and print components of the server software, adding clustered file system support, compatibility improvements and other changes. Read more »

Novell snaps up Samba programmer

Jeremy Allison, one of the open source networking projects core programmers and formerly of HP, is now in the employ of Novell. Read more »

Open source legal centre launched

A centre to give free legal advice to those in the open source movement has just been establised and it should have four full-time lawyers by the end of the year. Read more »

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Troubleshooting Samba

Samba is a great tool for making Windows and Linux play nice together, and these basic troubleshooting steps will help you resolve common problems. Read more »

Download files using BitTorrent

Do you have trouble downloading large files with FTP or over HTTP? Try using the BitTorrent P2P file sharing method for greater flexibility of large downloads. Read more »

Top tech resolutions for 2003

The coming of the new year is a time for fresh starts and change. Here are the tasks Lamont Adams hopes to accomplish in the months ahead. Read more »

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation

Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

Three free bug-tracking tools

Everyone's development budget is tight these days, but that's no excuse to skimp on project essentials like bug tracking. Try these three free bug-tracking tools for size. Read more »

How the Mac was born, and other tales

Steve Jobs will be the star attraction when the Macworld Conference and Expo opens to the public Tuesday, but many Mac fans might be just as interested in hearing from one of the original Mac's creators. Read more »

SQL Anywhere Studio 9.0 proves to be a capable DBMS

SQL Anywhere Studio Version 9.0 from Sybase provides a feature-rich DBMS with a small footprint suitable for mobile devices. Find out more about what this DBMS can do for your next database project. Read more »

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Samba gets an inside look at Microsoft documentation

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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