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SProLinux News ---- Last updated: September 27, 2007

 

27 September 2007

---Tech Data To Offer Red Hat Training For Linux

Tech Data has teamed up with enterprise Linux software vendor Red Hat to offer Red Hat training and certification through its TD Education program.

5 September 2007

---Taking the good stuff when trading Windows for Linux

So you're switching from Windows to Linux? Great. Like other users and organizations who've taken the plunge, it's likely you're making the move to take advantage of Linux's stability and reliance on open standards. Now all you have to do is prepare carefully for your move.

28 August 2007

---Warning to check open-source licensing

Business users of open source software should review their open-source licensing agreements, audit their use, and create formal policies for managing source code, especially mixed-source code.

27 August 2007

---WORLDBEAT - Singapore Airlines puts a Linux PC in every seat

Flying in economy class doesn't have to be a miserable experience.

August 26 2007

---Why I Went Linux

I'm not a writer, but do things – like all those others out there e.g. run / work / play / have a life / use a computer / have a PDA. I don't hate, was frustrated, and took the Linux plunge because of what I mentioned. I took the personal initiative.

25 August 2007

---What Happened in Germany

Heise is reporting now that there is an uproar over how the OOXML vote was handled in Germany.

24 August 2007

---Sun Stock Ticker Catches Up with Reality

Sun's changing of its stock symbol from SUNW to JAVA isn't just symbolic; it represents the company's complete change in focus during the last few years.

23 August 2007

---Microsoft's Open Source Trashware

I recently took a look at Microsoft's most active open-source projects and—there's no polite way to say this—they are all junk.

22 August 2007

---Unicon Systems Wins the “Best of Show” Product Excellence Award

LinuxWorld 2007, impressed by the System-on-Display component.

21 August 2007

---Happy Birthday Debian!

The universal operating system!

18 August 2007

---Linux Gets A Lift

LinuxWorld action: Lenovo/SUSE deal, power management, startups.

17 August 2007

---Oracle Has Chosen Linux for Its 11g Release

Because if Linux grows, Oracle grows.

16 August 2007

---Malaysian Government Adopts the Open Document Format

Another one steps in that direction.

15 August 2007

---Microsoft Brings Its Email Protocols to Linux

A little more than two months since Xandros jumped on board of Microsoft's Windows-Linux interoperability and intellectual property assurance wagon, the two companies revealed in a joint announcement that they are expanding their collaboration.

15 August 2007

---Novell doesn't want to be the next SCO

Now that it has scored a major win for Linux in its legal battle with The SCO Group, Novell has no interest in becoming like the company it's just defeated and won't mount any copyright-infringement claims over Unix, a spokesman said Tuesday.

14 August 2007

---LinuxWorld and virtualization: Xen vs. KVM, Microsoft's Xen-friendly drivers

Here's my take on the hits and misses, along with my analysis of the session highlights. I'll conclude with a few words on what is for many people the real LinuxWorld, the exhibition hall.

13 August 2007

---SpikeSource CEO: Linux all grown up

The recently concluded LinuxWorld Conference & Expo looked like any other big tech industry conference as the logos of HP, Intel, Dell, IBM and other big names filled the exhibit hall at San Francisco's Moscone Center. That's a change from LinuxWorld shows of a decade ago, when open source was a renegade, even subversive, concept.

10 August 2007

---Novell renames its free Linux OS 'openSUSE'

The rebranding will differentiate it from SUSE Linux Enterprise.

9 August 2007

---LINUXWORLD SF - Motorola sees Linux as its mobile mainstay

Motorola Inc. is betting big on Linux for its mobile phones, planning to install the OS on 60 percent of its handsets within two years.

8 August 2007

---Microsoft Says No Windows Virtualization on Top of Linux

Microsoft will not allow Windows Vista or Windows XP to be virtualized on top of Linux, Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's open-source software lab, said at the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here Aug. 7.

7 August 2007

---Indian agency to deploy Linux in schools

The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu is deploying SUSE Linux Enterprise across 30,000 desktops and 1,880 servers in schools in southern India.

6 August 2007

---Lenovo and Dell sneak Linux on to new PCs

Open source software has made further inroads into Microsoft's heartland this week as both Lenovo and Dell announced Linux-based PCs.

5 August 2007

---Mobile Linux group gets wider support

A nonprofit organization formed by six of the biggest names in the cell phone business to promote the use of Linux of handsets has gotten wider industry support.

4 August 2007

---- Red Hat Global Desktop delayed

Red Hat confirmed on Aug. 3 that it would be delaying the release of the newest member of its desktop Linux family, Red Hat Global Desktop, because the company is seeking to provide certain multimedia codecs.

4 August 2007

---Portrait of a Linux iPhone-killer wannabe

In the race to be the first "iPhone killer," the most unlikely but perhaps most intriguing candidate is based on a new Linux platform with the peculiar name OpenMoko.

2 August 2007

---Hack and crack proof SSH on Linux

It’s inevitable: if your computer is Internet-connected you will have people coming a-knockin’. Fortunately Linux users are more savvy than to think any keep-alive ping or other piece of Internet flotsam is a hack attempt. Even so, it’s simply a matter of time before your router’s lights flash heavily and /var/log/auth.log (/var/log/secure on RedHat) fills with chilling messages.

2 August 2007

---Acer installing Linux on some notebooks, but not Ubuntu

Acer did not install the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but the company is installing a different version of the open-source operating system on some notebooks, local dealers said.

 

 
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