From humor site, Bedoper: "In light of recent legal challenges regarding 'Lindows', Double-Clicking and Source Code, yellowTab GMBH, Inc., Ltd. has elected to nip this business in the bud by renaming our forthcoming operating system 'Beta'."

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The proposed operating-system migration of the City of Munich's 14,000 desktops from Microsoft to Linux was placed in jeopardy Friday, when a Munich alderman petitioned the Bavarian city's mayor to examine the status of software patents in the European Community. The issue was raised by Green Party Alderman Jens Muehlhaus, who warned that patent issues could grind some of the city's departments to a halt in the future. The issue involves a proposed directive on software patents that is being considered by various European governments, including Germany, France, and the U.K.

Microsoft released a patch for Internet Explorer designed to close three critical holes in the browser, including one that paved the way for the Download.Ject Trojan horse.

From games to the desktop itself, 3D graphics will be everywhere in the new Windows Longhorn OS. Take a sneak peek at Microsoft's forthcoming WGF architecture that will make it happen.

GLib-2.4.5 is now available for download. This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with 2.4.0. The main reason for this release is a bug in the routines converting between filenames and URIs, which can cause problems when used with filenames which are not encoded in UTF-8.

If you're a programmer who's become fed up with software bloat, then may you find herein the perfect antidote. This document explores methods for squeezing excess bytes out of simple programs.

Last week, some developers disagreeing with the direction of the GNOME Project decided to create what appears to be the beginning of a fork of the project -- GoneME. *Updated*

While spyware protection on single home machines is quite easy using today's removal tools like AdAware or Spybot Search & Destroy, deploying and managing such tools in corporate networks is still a problem. AdAxis promises to ease both deployment and managability of AdAware in such environments. It provides a facility for pushing reference file updates to corporate network workstations, executing AdAware on workstations remotely without user interaction and monitor the spyware contamination degree of machines.

D-BUS is an up-and-coming message bus and activation system that is set to achieve deep penetration in the Linux desktop. Learn why it was created, what it can be used for, and where it is going.

Much of the attention commanded by computer security issues focuses on threats from external sources. Firewalls and perimeter defense tools are deployed to deny unauthorised entry to the network. Experts look for vulnerabilities and ways to ensure that the perimeter cannot be breached. Administrators monitor network traffic for unusual activities and anomalies, and it is common for users to be warned against suspicious email attachments. Read more.

I had been an avid user of Pine for almost five years. Recently, I decided to move to a greener posture. I dumped my good old Pine and settled with a graphical client. Although, sometime I miss the simple, fast, text based interface, the new relationship is shaping up to be an exciting one. We have our bad times, but overall I am happy with the switch.

When AT&T balkanized its Unix holdings in 1993, two different companies ended up walking away with pieces of the original Unix. Novell originally bought it all, then decided to keep the Unix source code and sell the Unix trademark -- the name, in other words -- and the Single Unix Specification standards to the X/Open Company. The Open Group, as it is now called, has since learned to use these assets profitably by offering qualification testing and certification for operating systems. If your OS meets certain requirements, passes the qualification tests, and you pay the fees, you get to call it Unix. Should GNU/Linux get certified?

This is the fourth installment of ThinkSecret's "Inside Tiger" series, covering Mac OS X Version 10.4. Today they look at the upcoming version of Safari, Version 2.0 (v146), which will ship as part of Tiger.