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Virtualization, cloud underlie Microsoft's Linux kernel submission |
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 21:14 |
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Experts say Microsoft's submission Monday of virtualization driver source code to the Linux kernel marks a watershed event in the vendor's understanding of open source's future."This is another sign of Microsoft's maturation with respect to open source," said Jeffrey Hammond, an analyst with Forrester Research. "There has been a real set of stepping stones toward a pragmatic and practical embrace of open source. This is like the final capstone." FULL STORY
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Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code |
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 03:48 |
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Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree. This is the first time Microsoft has made Microsoft-developed code available directly to the Linux community. The Redmondians have released various pieces of code under different open-source licenses over the past few years, but this is the first time Microsoft has released Linux code. FULL STORY
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Experts question security of Google OS |
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Monday, 20 July 2009 06:57 |
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Google says that its forthcoming Chrome operating system will be so secure that "users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates." But Google's claim is being met with skepticism within the Internet security world. FULL STORY
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New Linux Flaw Enables Null Pointer Exploits |
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 12:41 |
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A researcher has published exploit code for a new vulnerability he discovered in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability is an especially interesting one in that the researcher who discovered it, Brad Spengler, has demonstrated that he can use the weakness to defeat many of the add-on security protections offered by SELinux and AppArmor. FULL STORY
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Chrome OS to Bring More Linux IT Jobs? |
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Saturday, 18 July 2009 07:33 |
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The news has been abuzz about Google's upcoming OS. Many people have been arguing reasons for and against the system, its viability in such a market, and, if the OS is successful, even the morality of the company who may be trusted with even more private information than it already has. Well, here's another reason for Chrome OS: it could bring more jobs in the area of Linux IT. FULL STORY
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Linux Vendor Settles With Microsoft |
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Friday, 17 July 2009 07:38 |
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Under the agreement, Melco Group will pay the sum to Microsoft in exchange for indemnity coverage for its Buffalo brand Network Attached Storage devices and routers. The patent indemnification covers Melco and its customers. A manufacturer of Linux-based networking devices has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to Microsoft in order to settle a patent claim, Microsoft disclosed Wednesday. We are pleased to reach this agreement with Melco Group," said David Kaefer, Microsoft's general manager for intellectual property, in a statement. FULL STORY
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Mono makes headway on the Linux desktop |
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 08:07 |
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Mono the open-source runtime for .NET applications is stealing some of the thunder from Java applications for the Linux desktop. Recent Linux distros have featured new .NET consumer applications that run under Mono. Part of the reason is that the distributions contain up-to-date Mono development tools, while their Java tools are obsolete. FULL STORY
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How Does Ubuntu9.04 Measure Up to MacOS? |
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 07:59 |
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Bucking the historical trend of comparing desktop Linux with Windows, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth recently told journalist Bruce Byfield that he was looking to Mac OS X as the operating system to beat for future Ubuntu releases particularly in the areas of usability and user experience. Now that Ubuntu 9.04 is out, how does it compare to Apple’s latest offering? FULL STORY
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IBM Power servers most reliable in new survey |
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 07:56 |
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IBM's Power servers topped a list of most reliable x86 and Unix machines in a new survey, clocking in at only 15 minutes of unplanned downtime per year. Linux distributions running on x86 servers also performed well, as did Sun's Sparc machines and HP's Unix boxes. Windows Server machines performed worse than most competitors, with two to three hours of downtime per year, but have still improved dramatically over previous surveys. FULL STORY
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Linux achieves 1 second boot |
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 07:33 |
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The race for the fastest Linux boot has been going on for about a year at this point and now we've got a new winner. Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista today is announcing the demonstration of a 1 second Linux boot. In contrast the fastest production Linux releases today are in the 20-25 second range. FULL STORY
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The Recipe for Linux's Netbook Success |
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009 22:00 |
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One of the key market pillars for Google's new Chrome OS is fact that it is targeting the netbook market. It's a market that is growing rapidly with one forecast pegging 2009 growth of nearly 70 percent in 2009. While Linux has been a player in the netbook market since the beginning, NPD Group recently reported that Microsoft Windows now represents 96 percent of the market. FULL STORY
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Open Source Friend And Foe, Google |
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Monday, 13 July 2009 06:16 |
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The hype around Google Chrome OS is palpable. We all need to take a deep breath. In taking that deep breath, it becomes clear that Google has grown to become open sources biggest foe while at the same time being one of open sources biggest friends. Confused? You should be.Google helps the open source movement through its contributions to various open source projects, funding of open source summer development projects, open source conference sponsorships and simply by being a poster child for its internal use of open source. FULL STORY
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Dell May Test Google's Chrome OS |
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Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:19 |
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Dell on Friday said it would consider testing Google's upcoming Chrome operating system, but didn't commit to offering the Linux-based OS in future products. Dell constantly assesses new technologies as part of managing our product development process and for consideration in future products," company spokesman David Frink said in an e-mail. FULL STORY
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Google OS Could Put Squeeze on Other Flavors of Linux |
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Friday, 10 July 2009 20:59 |
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Google OS Could Put Squeeze on Other Flavors of Linux: Much of the discussion around Google's new PC operating system has focused on a looming battle with Windows, but the biggest losers could be other Linux OSes that have been enjoying some moderate success on netbooks, industry analysts said.Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing the Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on Linux and geared for people who do much of their computing on the Web. The software will eventually run on PCs, but before that it will appear first in netbooks in the second half of 2010, Google says. FULL STORY
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Debian accepts Mono applications |
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Friday, 10 July 2009 17:39 |
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All is not well in Debian land as the venerable free software project has decided to accept Mono-based applications despite a warning issued by bearded GNU guru Richard Stallman. Debian is just getting ready for the second update of its Linux version 5.0 which goes by the name of Lenny. What spurred Stallman to speak up is the Mono-based note-taking application Tomboy. FULL STORY
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Why free software shouldn't depend on Mono or C# |
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Friday, 10 July 2009 17:33 |
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Debian's decision to include Mono in its principal way of installing GNOME, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to depend on C#, so we need to discourage its use. The problem is not unique to Mono; any free implementation of C# would raise the same issue. The danger is that Microsoft is probably planning to force all free C# FULL STORY
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Did You Know? netcat is a unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It's designed to be a reliable back-end tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it's a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. Netcat, or "nc" as the actual program is named, should have been supplied long ago as another one of those cryptic but standard Unix tools.
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