The community-driven Fedora 13 Linux distribution has been reviewed by eWEEK, which was highly impressed with its cutting-edge enterprise features. The review praises Fedora security and permissions features such as the AccountsDialog user management utility, and it also likes the new command line interface for NetworkManager.
Recently, I've been using a MacBook Pro that has VMware Fusion installed so that it runs both the Mac OS and Microsoft Windows XP. A friend set it up for me this way, and it's really quite useful to take advantage of virtualization to have access to two robust operating systems and applications available for both of them. I can work with Photoshop and Illustrator, and on video tasks, on the Mac OS, and still jump into Windows to use various useful utilities and open source apps that I like.
I've got good news and bad news for those of the misguided perception that Linux is somehow impervious to attack or compromise. The bad news is that it turns out a vast collection of Linux systems may, in fact, be pwned. The good news, at least for IT administrators and organizations that rely on Linux as a server or desktop operating system, is that the Trojan is in a download that should have no bearing on Linux in a business setting.
A group of open source software developers working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have implemented a native Linux port of Sun's ZFS filesystem. Although the code is functional and available for download (but not production-ready yet), it cannot be merged upstream or shipped in binary form with the Linux kernel due to a licensing conflict. Sun distributes the OpenSolaris source code under its own Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which is incompatible with GNU's General Public License (GPL).
The ability to access the code of open-source applications may give attackers an edge in developing exploits for the software, according to a paper analyzing two years' worth of attack data.
This post is a summary of a conversation I had the other day with an acquaintance of mine. It started out with him asking me what I do for a living and ended up with me having to choke back tears of laughter. I hope you have the same reaction although I realize that it might be one of those, "You had to be there" moments.
According to Nick Carr, marketing director of Red Hat, Linux desktop has developed very rapidly over the past few years. Even from the technology viewpoint the Linux desktop is well developed, feature rich and mature. What adds to the merit is the low cost, better security and manageability. It's also well suited to a wide range of customer deployments.
As we’ve mentioned earlier, Songbird has left the Linux flock and gone on to perceived greener open source pastures. But what are the Linux faithful to use to replace this one time music player gem that was heralded as the alternative to iTunes?
Apparently there are a lot of choices. In fact, I doubt if Songbird will hardly be missed. So what are these Linux alternatives to Songbird? Let’s take a look at our 10 favorites, presented in no particular order.
Money makes the world go round, or so it's been said, but what about the world of FOSS? Sparked by a recent Glyn Moody column on The H, that's the question bloggers have been wrestling with in recent days.
On the one hand, we've got the fact that FOSS is generally free -- a feature that tends to minimize the revenue-generating opportunities, at least at first glance. On the other hand, we have compelling evidence from companies like Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) that it is indeed possible to make money aplenty with free and open source software.
Canonical demonstrated a fast-boot version of Ubuntu, said to launch a running browser in less than 10 seconds. Ubuntu Light is based on a new netbook- and touchscreen tablet-oriented desktop environment called "Unity" that will also drive the Ubuntu Netbook Edition of Ubuntu 10.10 ("Maverick Meerkat").
