SCO was the 'best thing that ever happened' to Linux, Mar 10, 2005

SCO's litigation over Linux was hugely unpopular but there was a big upside, says the chief executive of Open Source Development Labs

The second annual Innotech Oregon conference, which begins today at the Oregon Convention Center, leads off with a panel discussion of the business possibilities that open source has created.

From a strategic point of view, however, it is actually the server rather than the client version of Longhorn that is more critical to Microsoft due to the long-term threat posed by Linux at the back-end.

It's important for an administrator to be able to get good information about what's happening on his systems, and Astaro's reporting features are excellent. For a lot of users, the Executive Summary report will provide enough detail without becoming overwhelming. If administrators need more detail they can obtain it via the GUI or by downloading the raw log files for off-box analysis.

Less than a month after the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 4, the number one Linux distributor finds itself walking a fine line in protecting its trademark from clones of its latest product.

Information about several vulnerabilities in Linux and Linux-based applications that are deemed to be "highly critical" were recently posted on the security Web site Secunia.com.

A Wall Street analyst has suggested a partnership between Dell and Sun Microsystems would help both companies with their server strategies.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said on Wednesday that he's now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop, mainly for work reasons, although partly simply because he's a self-described "technology whore".

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.10, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. GNOME 2.10 includes a number of interesting new features, such as a video player and a CD ripping utility, and hundreds of bug fixes.

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