Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0, Sep 25, 2003

The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.0, a major new release of the award-winning Open Source/Free Software file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows ® clients.

The European Parliament finally voted through the controversial directive to harmonise procedures for software patenting across the European Union (EU) at lunchtime today.

But the Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions was subject to 90 amendments, mostly aimed at ensuring that software itself would not be patented.

What is the state of Linux scalability now?

Honeyman: For 32-bit architectures, Linux is at the head of the pack: Memory and file sizes can now scale to the limits of 32-bit hardware. On to 64-bit!

In some cases, the massive scale of hardware affects overall system scalability, especially administerability. For example, a sufficiently massive storage subsystem stresses the ability to take backups -- if it takes 24 hours to copy the contents of a petabyte system to tape, then it is not possible to take daily backups without a fundamental change in approach. But these problems are inherent to the scale of hardware and are not specific to Linux.

Xi Graphics, Inc. announced today that it has released high-performance 2D and OpenGL 3D Accelerated-X(TM) Summit Series commercial-off-the-shelf graphics drivers that support the 3.5" Advantech PCM-9372 card on Linux or Solaris (on Intel) operating systems. The Summit graphics drivers provide optimized support for the VIA Technologies, Inc. C3 Eden processor with S3 ProSavage 3D graphics hardware, including support for the MMX and 3D Now! instructions in the C3 CPU.

According to the report and its seven authors--security consultants and leaders of several security firms--the biggest problem is the over-reliance by corporations and governments worldwide on Microsoft's products.

"The problem is that of monoculture," said Bruce Schneier, one of the paper's authors and a co-founder of security firm Counterpane. "As long as all computers are running the same OS, they're all vulnerable."

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