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  • Porn filters set for 'fight club' test

    asks Untangle in its official release.Untangle ran a similar test on anti-virus software at last August's LinuxWorld Show under the title Anti-Virus Fight Club. US Open Source security outfit Untangle is to run a public test of six of the most…
  • Linux gets Security Blanket makeover

    Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS) has launched what it calls the first Linux hardening tool that is designed to be easy to use and to help system administrators out with compliance issues.The program, called Security Blanket, was first shown last…
  • Virtualisation threatens Windows

    Adoption of virtual appliances could be a threat to sales of operating systems from the likes of Microsoft, a co-founder of VMware claimed.Mendel Rosenblum told an audience at LinuxWorld in San Francisco yesterday that a virtual appliance, which…
  • IBM, Novell take fight to Red Hat and Microsoft

    IBM and Novell have strengthened their existing partnership on two fronts, after Linux distributor Novell increased support for IBM's Notes desktop collaboration software and its open-source WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE…
  • Lenovo and Dell sneak Linux on to new PCs

    It announced neither pricing nor a specific shipping date.The announcement came on the first day of the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, which runs until Thursday.We have seen more customers utilising and requesting open source notebook…
  • Entrigue to open source Script Start tool

    The company plans to make the announcement at the annual LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. Entrigue Systems, which develops the Windows logon-scripting tool Script Start, is taking the software open source to allow users to more rapidly…

Latest Features

  • VMware's Mendel Rosenblum speaks out

    VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum has aired his views on last month's Citrix-XenSource acquisition, on what features the CPU vendors should put in their products in support of virtualisation, and on the brouhaha following his remarks at…
  • Debian consortium takes on Novell, Red Hat

    That was Bruce Perens, speaking at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, which took place in San Francisco earlier this month. In a sense, he was calling for fewer choices.Perens, one of the founders of the open source movement, took the…
  • Is Sun about to buy Novell?

    A: Undeniably - Novell has garnered a huge amount of positive feedback from its move into the Linux business - unlike the last time it attempted a shift into the desktop and Unix markets, and Sun is launching a raft of new products at the…
 

How-Tos

  • Case Study: LinuxWorld showcases business cases for Linux

    With Linux making deeper inroads into corporate data centres, the recent LinuxWorld Conference Expo in San Francisco gave attendees some first-hand information about how open source is maturing to handle more critical business workloads.
 
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