The chief information officers of some major U.S. companies say more businesses are choosing the Linux operating system as they face pressure to reduce costs.
Speaking on a panel at a venture capital conference here Wednesday, the CIO of clothing retailer Gap and a tech executive from Bank of America said they are among the Linux converts.
Topping Gap's list of priority technology projects is "anything touching Linux," company CIO Ken Harris said.
For a long time it's been simple - if you want to play the latest, fastest games, install Windows. Announcements in the last few days show that may change.
Unfortunately, the range and quality of free software games on Linux is limited. Not that there are not games to play (for example, see the Morphix games live-CD). But the latest and greatest games, like Unreal Tournament, Quake and Half-Life, have typically been Windows-only releases.
We've all heard it many times when a new Microsoft virus comes out. In fact, I've heard it a couple of times this week already. Someone on a mailing list or discussion forum complains about the latest in a long line of Microsoft email viruses or worms and recommends others consider Mac OS X or Linux as a somewhat safer computing platform. In response, another person named, oh, let's call him "Bill," says, basically, "How ridiculous! The only reason Microsoft software is the target of so many viruses is because it is so widely used!
CRUX Linux (simply CRUX for now on) is a source-based Linux distribution created by Per Liden, targeting advanced and intermediate users. As reported on CRUX Website, the main philosophy behind the distribution is to "keep it simple". The official CRUX distribution is available for i686 systems only; however a contributed i586 ISO image is available and a PPC port is on the final stage (rc3 at the time I'm writing)and should be available soon at http://www.crux-it.org.
If you work with Linux you certainly know of many resources where you can get your questions answered when running into a problem. When it comes to securing your Linux box, there's a myriad of things you have to think about and this is where this cookbook comes into the picture. The authors aim to provide you with quick recipes for various issues. Read on to find out if this beats searching for information in the usual places.
Wireless networking technology has shown an explosive growth worldwide over the past few years, bucking the general downward economic trend in the telecommunications industry. What is it about wireless networking that makes it so alluring on a grand scale? Why did over 22 million Wi-Fi devices ship last year, with double that projected by some for this year? While marketing folk might tell you that the particular feature set and brand name of their product is driving demand, I believe the answer is much simpler: it's magic.
The forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 suite will include a new feature to thwart worms and hackers.
The news arrives as the security of open-source systems comes under increased scrutiny. Less than two weeks ago, several serious security vulnerabilities were revealed in OpenSSH and Sendmail, two popular open-source software packages.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.0-test6 Linux development kernel today with the following comments:
"Ok, too long between test5 and test6 again, so the patch is pretty big. Lots of driver updates and architectures fixed, but also lots of merges from Andrew Morton. Most notably perhaps Con's scheduler changes that have been discussed extensively and made it into the -mm tree for testing.
The second Slackware release in the 9.x series (based on the GCC 3.2.3
compiler), Slackware Linux 9.1 continues the ten-year Slackware
tradition of simplicity, stability, and security.
Seagate has decided to lend an open source hand to Whitebox PC makers by distributing the LindowsOS on one of its hard drives at no cost.
U.S. computer makers of all shapes and sizes can purchases the 40GB Barracuda 7200.7 hard drives pre-loaded with LindowsHD. Seagate will sell the hard drives with our without the Linux OS at the same cost and estimates that Whitebox manufacturers can save about $100 per computer by picking the pre-loaded option. At a minimum, the program will run through December.
