Source: Australian IT
IBM HAS used its new self-healing software at a major sports event for the first time: this year's Australian Open.
Most tennis fans will be unaware of the autonomic computing, rapid messaging and Linux servers in the background, but they will see results faster on the official website, IBM says.
Source: Lindows.com
"We don't think people will confuse our products because they're very different and that the true reason Microsoft is attacking us is because of what our product does and not because what it is named.
Source: ZDNet
L33tdawg: The article states the price of the device will be about $200 -- although it doesn't say what currency this is in. Even if it's USD200, it's still DAMN cheap for a laptop, and if it's in Singapore dollars (equiv to about USD100), then that's even better news! Now, if only the company would be kind enough to send a review unit over to us, so we can write up an analysis... hmmmmz.
This afternoon Robert Love announced the release of a preemptible kernel patch that is compatible with Ingo Molnar's new 0(1) scheduler. The patches both now work together in the stable 2.4 kernel tree and the 2.5 development kernel. There's more information here.
Source: Consulting Times
"You can't go to the moon in a hot air balloon.
Equally unwise are the regular attempts to float massive e-mail and collaboration systems from over-inflated racks of Exchange servers. In our overview of this problem, E-mail in the Enterprise, we noted three points of danger to any enterprise embarked on this mode of message transport:
Source: IDG.net
L33tdawg: I think it's still going to be sometime before we see 'rampaging Linux viruses' but it's bound to happen sooner or later. The thing is, right now, Windows has the widest user base -- makes sense to write a virus for a platform that will surely spread like wild fire. How many home and business users do you know using Linux as their desktop?
Linux Security for the Enterprise: Executive Summary:
Discusses currently available security features in typical Linux distribution, in addition to other security services and products that can be added.
Security Requirements for the Deployment of the Linux Kernel in Enterprise Systems.
This white paper establishes an architecture for providing security services for Linux-based enterprise-level Internet servers.
Ingo Molnar recently posted a patch to the Linux Kernel Mailing List that, in his own words, is "a pretty radical rewrite of the Linux scheduler". He includes patches for both 2.5.2-pre6 and 2.4.17. Kerneltrap includes links and an interesting followup discussion here.
