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Red Hat makes clear its virtual plans

Red Hat has announced expansion plans it claims will take it forward to 2007.

Taking as its cue new figures from IDC that show the Linux server market expanding by 26 per cent annually to a value of $12 billion by 2008, and the Linux client market growing by 30 per cent to $10 billion, Red Hat will expand in four directions: regionally; into mission-critical applications; in terms of product breadth; and with a more vertical focus.

SGI and Novell Attain Elevated Security Certification for SUSE Linux on SGI Altix Systems

  • PR Newswire; By Press release (Posted by tadelste on Nov 2, 2005 3:06 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Press Release
Level 3 Certification Ensures High-Performance 64-Bit Linux OS on SGI Servers Meets Global Government and Military Security Standards

Review: Mandriva Linux 2006 PowerPack Edition

It's not often that you see a desktop operating system aimed at power users. Usually an experienced user is expected to build the operating system from the command line ala FreeBSD, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, or Linux From Scratch; or to spend hours customizing one of the totally

Red Hat to Focus on Reducing Infrastructure Costs For Customers

  • IT News Online; By IT News Online Staff (Posted by tadelste on Nov 2, 2005 1:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Red Hat
Red Hat announced that its primary technology plan for 2006 through 2007 would be to continue to reduce IT infrastructure costs for customers. The company sees virtualization, stateless Linux and developer enablement as the key levers to reduce costs by increasing organizational efficiency and agility.

Linux in Action: Understanding Federated Identity Management Business Drivers

Aside from some obvious business benefits, some government regulations require Federal Identity Management

Red Hat grows up

Red Hat has ridden the Linux wave quite successfuly for a decade now. It's by far the leading Linux distributor and growing at 40% to 50% per year. This is mostly based on a simple formula: For many applications, corporations can cut their computer hardware costs by 30% or more by shifting from proprietary Unix software and RISC-chip hardware to Linux running on Intel- and AMD-based servers.

Now comes Red Hat's next act. In its next major release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, due out before the end of the year, the company is introducing a handful of technologies and services aimed at making computing substantially cheaper for corporations. It's attacking the total-cost-of-ownership issues that Microsoft has raised in an effort to hold back the Linux tide. If Red Hat brings down the cost of open-source computing by another big step, it, and Linux, could prove mighty hard to stop.

SCO Starts to Show Its Cards

  • eWEEK Linux; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by tadelste on Nov 1, 2005 11:09 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, SCO
But, the Unix company still doesn't show any public smoking gun of proof of Linux copyright violations or IBM wrong doings.

Moglen to Focus on the Meaning of Free Software

The co-author of the upcoming GPL Version 3 says his conference speech will target big-picture issues such as why user rights are so important to business users.

December 2005, From the Publisher: The Desktops Are Coming

AlthoughLJ readers have been using Linux desktops for years, putting desktops in front of ordinary users is now a reality. To help, we createdTUX.

I know we are all going to miss Don Marti. Many of usLJ folks have known Don"forever", and we have worked with him for five years. Don had the big picture, knew his bits and was a great writer-exactly the right mix.

The Venture Capital Reluctance Toward Linux

Aside from the general unwillingness of VC's to invest in startups, Linux is a no go. Many factors come into play with the primary lack of an exit strategy topping the list. When will Linux companies see the light at the end of the tunel? Or will they?

Sun Grid Utility Aimed at MS Word Docs

Sun Microsystems is starting a new grid utility service that unlocks the data stored in Microsoft Word documents and converts it into Open Document Format files that can be used by the StarOffice and OpenOffice desktop suites.

Novell Changes Leadership

Hovsepian becomes president, but beleaguered Jack Messman stays on as CEO.

Elmer 5.0 Released Under General Public License

Elmer 5.0 is a finite element based computational tool for multiphysics problems containing physical models for fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, and heat transfer, etc. The program has been developed at CSC, the Finnish IT center for science over the past 10 years and has now been released as open source software under the GNU General Public License.

Linux Kernel Potential Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux Kernel, with an unknown impact.

1) A boundary error due to missing parameter validation in the "map_to_seg7()" function in "drivers/usb/input/map_to_7segment.h" of the Yealink driver may cause out-of-bound memory references.

2) A boundary error in "/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c" when handling SMBus Block Write transactions may cause a buffer overflow.

Solution:
The vulnerabilities have been fixed in version 2.6.14-git4.

Comment of the Day - November 1, 2005

Commenting on the report of Firefox increasing its market share, TxtEdMacs wrote:"Don't believe it!".

Related to the Article Firefox Jumps In Browser Market Share.

Device Profile: D-Link DRO-200i multi-service access router

D-Link India used Linux to build a multi-service access router aimed at providing remote offices with network fault-tolerant access to corporate headquarters. The DRO-200i is based on an Intel XScale network processor, and uses V.35 as its primary WAN interface, with ISDN and dial-up backup.

Continuent: New Name, Same Mission

Emeryville, CA-based Continuent, formerly Emic Networks, is readying the release of database virtualization middleware for the most widely used commercial and open-source databases for business. Although the tech firm has undergone a name change, but its mission to boost business database availability remains the same.

Fresh off a new round of series B funding that netted the company $5.75 million, and a name change, the company announced that the coming months will see the release of its database virtualization product tailored to all of the major providers.

Do you really want to hear the latest in the SCO-IBM case?

I don't.

I long ago lost interest in SCO's claim it "owns" Unix and can force everyone to "license" Linux for its benefit.

At this point I believe SCO is basically a law firm, specifically the law firm of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP of New York. Four of its partners signed the latest filing, along with SCO's local Salt Lake City counsel, Brent Hatch and Mark James of James, Hatch & Dodge.

To me the most interesting aspect of the latest filing, the cover letter of which was sent to me by SCO's PR officer, Blake Stowell, is the listing of partners who worked on the sealed enclosure, which claims to detail which specific pieces of Linux IBM allegedly "stole" from SCO's Unix. There are two partners who work in Armonk, which is IBM's headquarters, one from Ft. Lauderdale and one from Miami. Missing is the "name" partner, David Boies, he of U.S. vs. Microsoft fame. (The BS&F partners are, for the record, Robert Silver, Edward Normand, Stuart Singer, and Stephen Zack. Good lawyers no doubt, but none with their name on the door.)

Fedora Weekly News Issue 20

Welcome to our issue number 20 of Fedora Weekly News.

All hail the speed demons

With the Open Source desktop getting larger and more complex, the world need a special type of hacker. Bow down to the speed demon and their abilities to make the world start-up quicker...

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