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A Network Appliance Platform for Linux Applications at the US Department of Defense – 01/22/07
U.S. military requirements for network devices are growing more and more demanding, making a flexible Linux-based platform the foundation of choice.
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AMD pins hopes on Barcelona chip – LinuxWorld, 01/24/07
Struggling to rebound from a US$574 million loss in fourth-quarter earnings it reported Tuesday, Advanced Micro Devices has pinned its hopes for recovery in 2007 to its planned Barcelona quad-core Opteron server chip.
New mobile service simplifies online buying – LinuxWorld, 01/24/07
Austin, Texas – A start-up has released free software coupled to a Web service that lets handheld users quickly and easily execute online transactions with a group of vendors.
Oracle’s Web 2.0 interface expected this month – LinuxWorld, 01/24/07
Oracle plans to release WebCenter Suite before the end of the month, a product for building application interfaces that incorporate content from a variety of sources as well as such Web 2.0 tools as blogs and wikis.
Unisys releases open source services and product packages – LinuxWorld, 01/24/07
Those with long IT backgrounds may associate Unisys with mainframes, or large enterprise services integration, but the company is driving to become more of a player in open source software and Linux technology.
HP shines spotlight on storage, server software – LinuxWorld, 01/23/07
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is adding a new business unit within its Enterprise Storage and Server (ESS) organization as a way to highlight its IT management, automation and virtualization software.
Microsoft said to offer payment for Wikipedia edits – LinuxWorld, 01/23/07
A software engineer in Australia has said he was offered payment by Microsoft Corp. to edit certain entries in the Wikipedia online dictionary, opening a heated debate about the ethics of such a move.
OpenOffice, Office 2007 get new tools – LinuxWorld, 01/23/07
Rivals Microsoft Corp. and OpenOffice.org on Tuesday both released toolkits that support building applications for their competing document file formats and productivity suites.
Portal designed to aid identity-based applications – LinuxWorld, 01/23/07
A new portal has been launched to help developers who are building applications using identity management technology.
Sun returns to black after five red-ink quarters – LinuxWorld, 01/23/07
Sun, fresh from news of a renewed alliance with chip maker Intel Corp., reported its first quarterly profit in more than a year in financial results released Tuesday.
Sun’s McNealy: Intel deal gives customers options – LinuxWorld, 01/23/07
An alliance with Intel Corp. announced this week gives Sun Microsystems Inc. customers a wide range of options for running the Solaris operating system, Sun founder and Chairman Scott McNealy said Tuesday.
Kernel Space: State of the Nouveau project – LinuxWorld, 01/23/07
While NVidia refuses to release programming information for its video chipsets, one ambitious project is reverse engineering the hardware to develop open source support.
UPDATE: Sun, Intel announce server pact – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday announced an alliance with Intel Corp., a move that will greatly expand Sun’s involvement with the chip maker and continue its slow and long embrace of the x86 world.
Sun to sell Intel-powered servers again – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
Sun and Intel announced a broad alliance Monday that will lead to Sun’s reintroduction of an Intel-based product line, the companies said.
UPDATE–Report: Sun server deal with Intel likely – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
Sun may start buying server chips from Intel that could be announced Monday, according to media reports.
OSDL, Free Standards Group to merge – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
The two main evangelizers of the Linux operating system, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group (FSG) are merging to form the Linux Foundation.
Cisco admits iPhone license violation – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
Cisco plans to resolve a single license compliance issue regarding the use of Linux in one of its iPhones, the company wrote in a blog posting, but a researcher contends that Cisco has more work to do.
New tool eases SELinux policy setup – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
A new tool is available for Linux administrators interested in Security Enhanced Linux, but hesitant to deploy the technology due to its complexity. The software is Treysys Brickwall Security Suite.
Kaseya PC Remote Control – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
Kaseya piles feature upon feature into its remote-control repertoire and supports thousands of users with its server-based remote-control, audit, backup, patch management, trouble ticket, inventory and script system.
Reviews: NetSupport Manager – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
Companies with multiple client operating systems to support will appreciate NetSupport Manager from NetSupport. The NetSupport console can control remote Windows, Linux and Macintosh computers.
Review: LogMeIn IT Reach – LinuxWorld, 01/22/07
The only fully hosted, software-as-a-service company, LogMeIn leverages browser power and blazing response time to cover any delays caused by routing connections between controller and the controlled machine through the LogMeIn host.
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Dell’s n series: are there cheaper ways to get a Linux box? 01/17/07
Paul McNamara points out Dell’s n series, desktop systems preloaded with FreeDOS. But with “n” models coming in above the price of the same systems with a Microsoft OS, is it worth spending the extra money just to lose the preload?
