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Switching to Linux picks up steam
About a third of businesses plan to migrate at least some Windows machines to Linux, according to a recent survey, but adoption will continue to be both slow and cautious, as companies evaluate a maze of economic factors....Read More at c|net
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Patched in 60 Seconds
Today it was announced that a vulnerability in the Mozilla and Firefox Web browsers allows the execution of arbitrary code in Windows NT, 2000, and XP systems. It doesn't affect GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or anything else -- just Windows. I'd imagine that Microsoft's head honchos will be mentioning this exploit whenever they want to attack open source software security for years to come. Ironically OSS advocates might use the same story to attack Microsoft's security record. Why? Because a patch was released before the vulnerability was widely reported....Read More at NewsForge
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Linux helps make weather forecasts more accurate
Weather is a tricky thing to predict, but advances in Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) are helping climatologists and global weather modelers achieve faster, more accurate results....Read More at NewsForge
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Linux users are spoiled
A friend got a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed. "Does this come with an IRC program?" he asked. No, it doesn't. There are plenty of IRC programs for Windows, but you need to download and install them yourself. Word processing? Not included. Spreadsheet? Windows leaves you on your own yet again. I swear, by the time you buy or download all the software it takes to actually do something with Windows, you might as well install Linux. It would take a lot less time. I don't know about you, but my time is worth money, and if I need to do a whole bunch of software downloading and installation to make my computer usable, we're talking huge TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Because
of antitrust concerns, Microsoft needs to be careful about what kind of application software it ships with Windows. Microsoft reps sometimes point to Linux distributions and ask why they can get away with shipping stacks and stacks of applications without getting in trouble. The answer to that one, of course, is that the Linux distributions give you a choice. You aren't locked into one particular application. Most Linux distributions include several choices for most program classifications; even single-CD distros usually include several Web browsers and email clients....Read More at NewsForge
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Mississippi deal a landmark for Linux in government
Mississippi, deep in the South, sits 2,100 miles from Silicon Valley. It's an unlikely setting for a technology milestone, but history may show that Wednesday was a landmark day for Linux use in a government setting....Read More at EnterpriseLinux.com
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Open source: Prepare for attack
By Bruce Perens COMMENTARY--Do you need open-source legal protection any more than you need meteor insurance? Don't dismiss the idea.
Most legal observers discount the legal claims by SCO as illegitimate. But there are bigger challenges to contemplate than those from SCO. In fact, users face a convergence of issues that may ultimately lead to other claims being brought against Linux and open-source software....Read More at ZDNet.com
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Linux In 2004 - Usability Needs A Facelift
During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
Disclaimer: Some of this article may seem as if I am dissing Linux, quite the opposite, I love it, but I feel that it could be much better....Read More at OSNews.com
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Kill Bill
Forbes Magazine's Daniel Lyons: Linux represents the biggest threat that Microsoft has ever faced. No wonder IBM is spending billions to promote it...Read More
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Torvalds Changes How Code Can Be Contributed to Linux
From eWeek: "Linus Torvalds and Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton have announced a new way of tracking contributions to Linux: the Developer's Certificate of Origin...."Read More
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Flaws drill holes in open-source databases
ZDNet.com reports: Flaws in two popular source code database applications could allow attackers to access and corrupt open-source software projects, a security researcher said Wednesday. One vulnerability affects the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), an application used by many developers to store program code. The other flaw affects a newer, less widely used system known as Subversion, said Stefan Esser, the researcher who discovered the security holes....Read More
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Putting Linux on the desktop
ITWeek.co.uk's Peter Williams: Linux and the open source movement is rarely out of the spotlight these days. And the debate about its credibility as a viable alternative to Microsoft garners much attention....Read More
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