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For Mac e-mail software, Apple Mail is good enough, but barely just. Microsoft Entourage has retail polish and bloat, while Mozilla Thunderbird is clearly a product of open source software.

CA, Inc. today announced it has extended its world-class Web access security technology to include support for Web applications and Web services hosted on JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

"Canonical announced a few hours ago the immediate availability of a new Linux kernel security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS , 8.04 LTS , 8.10 , 9.04 and 9.10 . The update also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu and it patches 10 important security issues discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various hackers.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #179 for the week January 31st - February 6th, 2010 and is available here.

Looking for a new flavor of Web browser? If the mainstream favorites aren't doing the trick, or you just want to test drive something new, we take a look at several of the "alternative" Web browsers for the Linux desktop.

Linus Torvalds , the inventor of the Linux kernel, has an absolute disdain for mobile phones.

Moonlight 3.0, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet plug-in software on Linux and Unix platforms, is now being offered in an alpha release, according to Web pages from the Mono project, which has jurisdiction over Moonlight.

A #13.A What happened A toA Slashdot ? Geeknet has not created/evolved any of its existing assets or new assets as competitive Web 2.0 entities viz-a-viz digg.com, twitter, facebook, et al.

As state and local governments know too well, choosing open source software is kind of like being Lewis and Clark: There are a lot of unknowns, and policies for governing the open source "wilderness" aren't well defined -- if at all.