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LinuxWorld Expo to Offer Installfest for Needy Schools

As the LinuxWorld Expo conference, slated for August 4th to 7th in San Francisco, starts to take shape, more news is emerging about events to happen there. Oracle CIO Mark Sunday, IBM VP of Open Source and Standards Bob Sutor, and Kevin Clark, Director of IT Operations for LucasFilm are all slated to give keynote addresses. As of today, conference organizers have also announced a charitable Installfest event, where show attendees will be invited to customize donated hardware with open source software, to put computers in the hands of underprivileged children.



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

In addition to our recent coverage of a significant vulnerability in the Debian implementation of OpenSSL, Daily Tech has some analysis.....

The European Union is going to investigate Microsoft's plans to support Open Document Format in MS Office.....

Novell: India is gung-ho about open source.....

Is Google bucking open source conventions with Android? Will it pick Git to manage Android?.....

At $250, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer has one of the lowest priced Linux laptops.....



Fink Puts Open Source Packages on OS X

If you have switched to the Mac because of its Unix underpinnings and elegant GUI, then you aren't alone. If you want to install open source packages on your Mac, then you have at least two good options -- MacPorts and Fink. Installing Fink not only gives you access to a large number of open source programs, but lets you track which programs are installed on your computer, handles dependencies, and helps you to upgrade with a minimum of fuss.