BLFS version 6.3 is the complement to the LFS 6.3 book. It has been 18 months since the last release of BLFS and almost 12 months since LFS-6.3 was released. Though we would like to release BLFS versions as quickly as possible after an LFS release, this version lagged a bit due to Editor inactivity. However, early on in 2008 several new Editors were brought on board which helped stimulate a flurry of activity. Many new packages have been introduced in the 6.3 version, as well as many updates, refinements and additions to the existing packages.

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Linus Torvalds, the creator of the operating system phenomenon Linux, tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.

London, UK – OptimaNumerics has brung its mathematical libraries to the NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform.

Rome, Italy – The public beta version of Memopal for Linux is now downloadable. This launch was timed to almost immediately follow the release of the MAC version. As such, it is part of a wider strategy, the goal of which is to make Online Backup available to as many operating systems as possible. The developers of Memopal are, in fact, already working on software for iPhones,which will be available soon.

I'm super excited to begin work on porting Devicescape to the OpenMoko. Devicescape is one of the applications which I used heavily on my previous Windows-Mobile phones. It automatically sign on to Wi-Fi systems (such as FON,Starbucks, and more importantly for me Waterloo). Since I'm too cheap to have a big (or really any) data-plan this is how I plan to be getting my e-mail and pretty much everything on my OpenMoko. For now I'm going to be targeting the OM2008 image since it seems to provide the right mixture of bleeding edge while still being functional.

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Malicious hackers are using booby-trapped Flash banner ads to hijack clipboards for use in rogue security software attacks.
In the Web attacks, which target Mac, Windows and Linux users running Firefox, IE and Safari, hackers are seizing control of the machine’s clipboard and using a hard-to-delete URL that points to a fake anti-virus program.

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WALTHAM, Mass. – Microsoft and Novell have announced an incremental investment in their relationship to meet accelerating customer demand for their business model solution, which is designed to build a bridge between open source and proprietary software to deliver interoperability and intellectual property (IP) peace of mind for organizations operating mixed-source IT environments.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State University Open Source Lab’s capacity to support open source projects is being expanded through a donation of $300,000 from Google. That increases the company’s cumulative support of academia's leading open source development center to $750,000.

Los Angeles, CA – The Khronos Group has released the OpenGL 3.0 specification with strong industry support to bring significant new functionality to the open, cross-platform standard for 3D graphics acceleration. OpenGL 3.0 includes GLSL 1.30, a new version of the OpenGL shading language, and provides comprehensive access to the functionality of the latest generations of programmable graphics hardware.

SAN FRANCISCO – The Linux Foundation has published an important new guide to participating in the Linux kernel community. The 30-page book was written by noted Linux authority Jonathan Corbet.