Linux gadget infects Windows PCs?, Jan 30, 2007

In what appears to be a twist on the conventional wisdom that Windows systems are more vulnerable to viruses than Linux systems, some of TomTom's GPS navigation gadgets appear to have infected Windows PCs with a "low risk" virus.

Today Red Hat announced that Union Bank (one of the 25 largest banks in the US) will be standardizing on Red Hat Enteprise Linux.

Desktop Linux gained new features and functionality in 2006 that will stand it in good stead for growth in 2007, according to the first end-of-year report by the Open Source Development Labs' Desktop Linux Working Group.

Like the boy in the movie, Linux as a desktop operating system has come of age, and like the band he follows around, it’s on the verge of stardom.

Just when Microsoft wants you to forget about alternatives to Vista, along comes the Debian based project that allows you to not only install Linux on a Windows system, but do it right under its nose.

Linux distributor Debian issued a security advisory over the weekend, warning of several problems in Mozilla and associated products such as Mozilla Firefox.

Linux and Apple's Mac OS X are effective desktop operating systems, to be sure, but Microsoft's Windows has such a big piece of the operating system market pie that many app vendors don't even bother making their products available for non-Windows platforms.

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