|
|
Linux News for Jul 14, 2005
-
InfoWorld: Novell Bridges the OS Gap (Jul 14, 2005, 23:30)
"Saying goodbye is one of the hardest things to do, but Novell
has finally faced up to the truth that its flagship NetWare
operating system has fallen by the wayside..."
-
vnunet: Linux and Windows Security Neck and Neck (Jul 14, 2005, 22:00)
"Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum, told vnunet.com
that, while in security terms the gap between Linux and Microsoft
had shortened, Linux had the edge..."
-
The Inquirer: IBM Officially Kills OS/2, Suggests Switch to Linux (Jul 14, 2005, 21:15)
"Big Blue has hammered the final nails into OS/2's coffin. It
said that all sales of OS/2 will end on the 23rd of December this
year, and support for the pre-emptive multitasking operating system
will end on the 31st December 2006..."
-
LinuxPlanet: Carrier Grade Linux: Adoption and Deployments (Jul 14, 2005, 20:30)
"...I examined the state of Linux in telecom and reviewed the
specifications in the CGL requirements document. In this article, I
will provide an overview of CGL distributions, deployments and some
of the challenges ahead..."
-
ChannelRegister: Palm
One Regains Old Handle (Jul 14, 2005, 19:00)
"Palm, ladies and gentlemen, is now Palm again. When the Nasdaq
market opens for business... the company's stock will be traded
under the PALM symbol..."
-
Computer Business Review: Oracle Leads with Red Hat for Database 10g Update (Jul 14, 2005, 17:30)
"Oracle Corp has released the second version of its Database 10g
product, but the database management system is only initially
available for Red Hat Inc's Enterprise Linux operating
system..."
-
eWeek: OSDL Expands to Europe, But Not to Microsoft (Jul 14, 2005, 16:00)
"At the same time, in an interview in connection with the
announcement, Cohen was quoted as saying, 'I anticipate that as
open-source software grows, Microsoft will make its applications
available in open-source form...'" [Link repaired.
-ed]
-
The National Business Review: New Zealand Schools Go Open Source, Linux (Jul 14, 2005, 14:30)
"Novell has signed a national agreement with the New Zealand
Ministry of Education to provide all state and state-integrated
schools with a range of Novell software, including SUSE Linux
operating systems..."
-
Bank Technology News: Grid Computing: The Grid Is Going Mainstream Fast (Jul 14, 2005, 13:00)
"Grid computing may still sound fringe to buttoned-down
comptrollers looking over technology budgets at small Midwestern
thrifts. They've got a point-grids came into being out of academic
research labs and NASA's need for physicists..."
-
NewsForge: Spice Up Your Presentations with OpenOffice.org Impress (Jul 14, 2005, 11:30)
"While all the minute particulars have been covered thoroughly
in Impress tutorials, my purpose here is to encourage you to star
in your own show..."
-
Tectonic: An Open Source Approach to Security (Jul 14, 2005, 10:00)
"The frequency and level of attacks on corporate networks and
systems around the world have forced businesses to adopt a more
vigilant approach towards security..."
-
NewsForge: MythTV: Easy Personal Video Recording with Linux (Jul 14, 2005, 08:30)
"A few months ago, I started looking for an alternative to
Windows Media Center Edition 2005, a personal video recorder (PVR)
or digital video recorder (DVR) system..."
-
SearchEnterpriseLinux: Eliminating Spam with SpamAssassin, DSPAM and ClamAV (Jul 14, 2005, 07:00)
"Indeed, you will almost certainly need to combine both an
antispam package and an antivirus package. Let's look at each
package individually..."
-
Linux, Unix, /etc/: Using Bittorrent on Linux (Jul 14, 2005, 05:30)
"Peer to peer file sharing is nothing new nowadays; yet
BitTorrent has caused a degree of fuss about and interest in the
subject not seen since the early days of Napster..."
-
Advisories: July 13, 2005 (Jul 14, 2005, 04:45)
Today's security advisories: centericq, tiff, squirrelmail
(Debian GNU/Linux); net-snmp and rpm (Fedora Core); and Bugzilla
(Gentoo Linux).
-
Free Software Magazine: Free Software 2.0 (Jul 14, 2005, 04:00)
"Free software (and open source) license models have become the
most influential force in business IT to date..."
-
ZDNet: Open Source: Are Microsoft and Other Holdouts About to Crack? (Jul 14, 2005, 03:15)
"Commercial software providers, including Microsoft... are
finding that the open standards card that they've so cunningly
played as a part of those models could now have turned out to be a
deal with the devil..."
-
SearchEnterpriseLinux: Golden's Rules: Will the Real Open Source Community Please Stand Up? (Jul 14, 2005, 02:30)
"Responding to a presentation I did on open source, he said,
'It's a great topic, but I would have liked to see a member of the
open source community participating...'"
-
ZDNet: Ian Murdock on the Debian Core Consortium and Ubuntu Foundation (Jul 14, 2005, 01:45)
"Yesterday, I promised a follow-up on the Ubuntu Foundation and
comments from Debian Founder and Progeny Chairman and Chief
Strategist Ian Murdock..."
-
OfB.biz: I GNU It (Jul 14, 2005, 01:00)
"I knew when I mentioned something negative about the GNU
Project's General Public License (GPL), in my column last week, I
would inevitably be accused of arguing the GPL was a bad
license..."
-
LinuxInsider: Proprietary Software Can't Control the World (Jul 14, 2005, 00:15)
"'The good news about operating systems is that there's a
choice,' he said. 'The bad news about operating systems is that
there's a choice...'"
|
