Source: Linux World
All vendors have made mistakes at some time, and no vendor seems to be any better or worse than the other. Fortunately, these mistakes do not appear to be malicious -- just the result of a game of Chinese Whispers.
Source: OS Opinion
L33tdawg: While we all know that the rumours are false, this is still a pretty interesting article all the same. Personally I've always felt that Corel Linux would have been 'the one' that could perhaps put up a formidable fight against Microsoft... but we all know what happened to Corel's Linux outfit now don't we?
The recent Washington Post report suggesting a possible purchase of Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) by AOL (NYSE: AOL) rekindled a strategic plan long developing in my mind.
Source: The Register
An influential UK police advisory body has embarked on a three-month feasibility study on using Linux on police force desktops throughout England and Wales.
The Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO), a government body which provides information technology, communications systems and services to the police, is assessing the issues of deploying Linux on up to 60,000 desktop computers.
Source: ZDNet
One IT manager contacted by IT Week said he would now test Linux computers "for the more computer-literate staff". This approach was backed by Eddie Bleasdale of e-business consultancy Netproject, who said laptops are harder to configure than PCs.
Source: DebianPlanet.org
Some comments on the Linux Today story about the recent glibc security update challenged my perception that Debian is very responsive to security problems in core packages. Basically, they say that this vulnerability was reported on December 14th. Has it really taken one month to deliver a core glibc update?
KernelTrap has spoken with Linux guru Alan Cox. He is perhaps the second most
influental Linux kernel hacker, next only to Linus. In this interview he talks
about himself, his history with computers and Linux, working for Red Hat,
Marcello and the 2.4 kernel, the DMCA, the future of Linux and much more.
