"Linux is the long-term threat against our core business. Never forget that!" Microsoft Windows Division Veep Brian Valentine exclaims in a confidential memo to his Sales Brownshirts obtained by The Register. (our emphasis)
Linux World brings us: Understanding & installing SELinux.
"As I wrap up my SysAdmin series on Linux security, I would like to write about something out of the ordinary; something that most people -- unless you are absolute security junkies, or Slashdot trolls -- would not know about. It's called SELinux. SELinux, also known as Security Enhanced Linux, is a National Security Agency sponsored Linux project to develop a more secure Linux."
With the 2.4 release of Linux come a host of new filesystem possibilities, including Reiserfs, XFS, GFS, and others. These filesystems sound cool, but what exactly can they do, what are they good at, and exactly how do you go about safely using them in a production Linux environment? This series of articles answers these questions by showing you how to set up these new advanced filesystems under Linux 2.4.
Build Linux enterprise applications easily and efficiently with WebSphere Studio Application Developer for Linux. It supports J2EE standards for an environment that rapidly grows and adapts to meet the toughest application demands.
IBM has built and continues to build the world's largest and most complex Linux clusters in response to its customer's requirements. The intellectual capital that allows successful creation and implementation of the largest clusters is being brought to bear on the emerging commercial market for Linux clusters of all sizes.
The Duke of URL has posted their review of Conectiva Linux 7.0. The review covers installation, post-installation, configuration, its packaging system (APT-RPM) and much more.
Source: Byte.com
"In my October 29, 2001, Byte.com column I described the new VM written by kernel hacker Andrea Arcangeli. In that article, I promised I would come back to my FreeBSD versus Linux comparison that I ran in my February 2001 column. Many people say FreeBSD has a very good virtual memory manager. As it turns out, I pretty much proved them right in that article.
Now, with the new VM engine in Linux as of 2.4.10, things might look different, so I prepared a new test environment for the benchmark.
There's a pretty interesting article over at the Linux Gazette discussing how Linux appears to be losing the battle for the desktop. My only question is, was Linux ever winning at some point? I really can't... Eitherways, here's an excerpt from the article:
Exit stage right to this short Linux Penguinstein animation. Also experience some Linux Passion and view the Linux Evolution animation of the Mankind.
If you've used UNIX or Linux for some period of time, you've probably written a few Perl programs to automate simple tasks. Each of these programs does something basic and simple that might otherwise take you 10 or 20 minutes to do by hand. This article will show you how to convert just such a Perl program into a far more robust programming project, one that will be generic enough to be widely distributed across many disparate platforms.
