Administration, interoperability and integration

Does Linus speak the truth?

Micosoft hires Interoperability Lab director

I think it would be right to assume that the Microsoft-Novell partnership can only become even more controversial in the coming months than it was when first announced last November, simply due to the fact that there's so much more we could and will learn about the partnership as time goes...

2007: Year of the Linux ‘patent covenant?’

MORE UPDATES (o6/07/07): ComputerWorld is reporting this morning that LG has also jumped on board with Microsoft for...

Samba 3.0.25a Available for Download

Just a quick Samba update to mark my return from the beaches of North Carolina:

• Major bug fixes included in Samba 3.0.25a are:
• Missing supplementary Unix group membership when using "force group".
• Premature expiration of domain user passwords when using a Samba domain...

Samba 3.025 available for download

Major features included in the 3.0.25 code base include:

• Significant improvements in the winbind off-line logon support.
• Support for secure DDNS updates as part of the 'net ads join' process.
• Rewritten IdMap interface which allows...

Red Hat’s Tim Yeaton on the Meta Matrix acquisition

A tidbit from an upcoming SearchEnterpriseLinux.com Q&A with Red Hat vice president of enterprise applications Tim Yeaton:

What was behind the data management-related Meta...