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Source: Linux Today For a while now, Novell has produced some great Linux desktops, like the OpenSUSE line. At the same time, though, Novell insisted that for businesses, its only desktop interest was in thin-client-style worker-bee desktops
Source: Linux Today Hackers are actively seeking out unpatched versions of the Mambo content management system, which recently repaired a serious security hole
Source: Linux Today Frustrated by the slow, advertising-laden cable experience provided by AT&T; Broadband, programmer Isaac Richards took matters into his own hands by coming up with his own solution to the problem
Source: Linux Today Mozilla's Web browser applications have been downloaded over a hundred million times for free. But that doesn't mean the spawn of AOL isn't turning a profit
Source: Linux Today Fans of the online virtual world Second Life can now connect from Linux machines
Source: Linux Today Xandros, better known for its desktop Linux OS, is planning to launch an enterprise server
Source: Linux Today On March 9th, Novell Inc. announced that it had hired a new executive to run its Linux and open source business unit
Source: Linux Today Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be unable to keep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the release of FC5
Source: Linux Today The Itanium Solutions Alliance still won't say much about its plans to spend a $10 billion kitty announced in January, but it did identify one project it's spending a tiny fraction of that money on
Source: Linux Today A test has revealed that a Linux server is far less likely to be compromised. In fact, unpatched Red Hat and SuSE servers were not breached at all during a six-week trial, while the equivalent Windows systems were compromised within hours
Source: Linux Today In an interview via e-mail with Forbes, Torvalds discusses GPLv3, digital rights management and sharks with laser beams
Source: Linux Today If you ask any number of IT professionals to describe the Linux operating system, they almost always spout out rather quickly that it is non-proprietary and open source
Source: Linux Today Technology professionals have loosely used the term 'UNIX' since the first person had to explain the difference between the Berkeley and AT&T; flavors, so it's not surprising to find as many UNIX standards as there are versions of the operating system
Source: Linux Today Linux users who live in Toronto now have a special place to gather, get online, and sip fancy coffee drinks. It's not Starbucks, it's the linuxcaffe
Source: Linux Today I figured my main computer can be the Terminal Server, but as I started building it I realized that building an i386 client image on an AMD64 box was an utter pain
Source: Linux Today Not everyone learns or uses awk these days, so here's a quick review of what the language can do and some of its features
Source: Linux Today Why pay a proprietary vendor a ton of money for a security application you can get for little or no money ?
Source: Linux Today This time we'll learn how to make a Windows XP server join a SAMBA domain name server
Source: Linux Today Some time ago I read an article about versioning your /home files with Concurrent Versions System
Source: Linux Today Like most tasks in Ubuntu, backing up and restoring data is easy enough for any user to attempt
Source: Linux Today Today's security advisories: zoph (Debian GNU/Linux); php (Mandriva Linux); and python and kdegraphics (Red Hat Linux).
Source: Linux Today "Greasemonkey is not a car mechanic, but a tool for manipulating and customizing the design of remote Web pages (without the knowledge of publishers) when sites are viewed through the popular open-source browser, Firefox
Source: Linux Today Big players like Oracle have showered open source projects with cash, code and other resources. There's no sign of this largess coming to an end
Source: Linux Today As regular readers know there's been a lot of discussion in the talkbacks to this blog lately about two issues: PC style security on MacOS X and out-sourcing
Source: Linux Today The growth of free, open-source software presents developing countries with an opportunity to escape from technological dependence on developed countries, but also a challenge to build up local expertise
Source: Linux Today By June, this year, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) hopes to deploy more computers (actually the third batch of its kind)--that is, 1,200 schools throughout the Philippines
Source: Linux Today The cynical response is that this is not really about open source at all
Source: Linux Today In the David-Goliath matchup between OpenOffice 2.0 and Microsoft Office, the little guy is not up to the job of toppling the giant. So say some IT managers who responded heartily to my column about barriers to Linux desktop adoption
Source: Linux Today What about Linux? I'm assuming that given the fact that its an OSS product, that can be downloaded and used for free, the number must be laughably small in comparison, right ?
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