June, 2007

Picking the brain of a Linux consultant

As SearchEnterpriseLinux.com gears up to cover the heck out of the state of Linux support today (a summer support series -- how's that for some alliteration, huh?), I've been exchanging emails and phone calls with Linux consultant Patrick Green, of Chicago-based Silver Strand Solutions. Here's a...

Red Hat subscription revenue up 7%

Red Hat, perhaps driven by the release of the latest version of its flagship operating system in March, today announced some positive financial results for the company to the tune of a 7% increase in subscription revenue from last month. Total revenue for the quarter was $118.9 million, an...

Microsoft Security Response Center rated one of the worst jobs in science

This is one of those posts that's provided as some gratuitous schadenfreund for Linux advocates out there, so just sit back and enjoy the show... It seems today that Popular Science recently rated Microsoft's Security...

Expert asks, “Are two Windows drivers worth more than SLES 10?”

It appears I've been had. I reported last week that Novell alleged it was "first to market" with drivers for Windows and Linux that plug into Xen’s fast paravirtualized I/O stack. Simon...

Samba 3.0.25b Available for Download

The Samba Team has come through with another production release for Samba 3.025, This is the third production release of the Samba 3.0.25 code base and is the version that servers should be run for for all current bug fixes. Major bug fixes included in Samba 3.0.25b are:

• Offline caching...

Linux helps raise money for one million soccer balls

I like Linux, and I like soccer (football). So today's news was almost too good to be true.

Canada-based Omni Technology Solutions, Novell South Africa, Userful, and Pinnacle Micro have teamed up to provide Linux desktop...

Linux, power management and the green data center

Today SearchEnterpriseLinux.com...

The world can live without Microsoft

India. China. Japan....

Patch: Linux v2.6.22-rc6 (’knock wood’ edition)

The headline says it all, plus a little bit more. A new stable patch is out for the kernel.

I'm happy to say that things seem to have calmed down after -rc5, and that most of this really is just bugfixes and regression fixing in...

Now that’s tiny — Linux computer on a USB thumb drive

Linux has been known to run on some...