Microsoft's Linux Best Buy is great news, Sep 09, 2009

Does it surprise anyone that Microsoft is allegedly helping to train BestBuy employees to sell Windows 7 against Linux? It shouldn't. This is a marvelous thing for Linux fans everywhere.

Bankrupt Unix vendor SCO now has a new leg to stand on. A U.S Federal Appeals court judge has overturned part of a 2007 ruling which gave ownership of the Unix copyrights to Novell.

IDC is out with a new report, forecasting Linux revenue from 2009-2013. At least one Linux vendor has already posted on some of the detailed information.

Last week, Linux was tagged with a local NULL pointer flaw that could have led to a privilege escalation issue. Linux founder Linus Torvalds pushed a patch upstream quickly and now that patch is in the Linux 2.6.31 -rc6 milestone.

The Debian Linux distribution celebrates its 16th anniversary this week (official birthday is: August 16, 1993). It sure has been an interesting ride.

The story of how a Linux exploit actually wasn't, thanks to some static code analysis.

When Red Hat had its IPO in 1999, many saw it as the real coming of age of Linux. While there is little doubt that IPO was a big event for Red Hat and Linux, perhaps an even more important one from a milestone point of view will officially occur this Friday. As of Friday July 24, Red Hat will join the S&P 500 index.

Google's new Linux OS is being greeted with both concern and optimism from existing players in the market.

In 2007, Microsoft shook up the Linux community with claims that open source allegedly infringes on as many as 235 of Microsoft's patents. Until this year, Microsoft had not actually filed any kind of legal suits on those patents - which changed with the TomTom case.

Google's Chrome browser has only officially been available for Linux and Mac users since early June. Since then, Google has updated the browser once, keeping it at the same version number for Windows, Linux and Mac. That is now changing with the 3.0.190.x release for the dev-channel version of Chrome.

With Oracle set to acquire Sun and gain stewardship over Java, there are many in the tech world with an opinion on how the database giant should handle its new relationship with the programming language.

Virtualization is a key technology for Linux vendor Red Hat which earlier this year outlined a broad new virtualization roadmap including new products and technologies. Those efforts are now starting to bear fruit, with Red Hat this week indicating that it's now entering the beta phase of deployment.

Latest Red Hat community Linux sports faster speed and virtualization features of interest to enterprise users.

If managers take the time to prepare -- both themselves and their users -- changing the operating system need not be painful.

While security features are getting an update, the core of the company's networking OS could see a shift to Linux within months.

Microsoft might be betting big on Windows 7, the next version of its flagship operating system, but to Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, the upcoming release is really an opportunity for Linux to shine.

JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey is leaving Red Hat. Labourey had been at JBoss for the past eight years, nearly three of which were under Red Hat's ownership. Labourey's departure comes over two years after JBoss founder Marc Fleury left Red Hat in 2007.

Prominent open source executives make the case for lower-cost alternatives during the economic crisis.

There was a time when having an IT certification was the key to getting a job -- that time may be here again. Back in 1999, when many people were out getting MCSE's and CNEs (remember those?), Red Hat launched its Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) program.

IBM is reportedly in talks to acquire Sun for a whopping $6.5 billion. What's it mean for the future of Linux and Unix?