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Unix, Linux keywords banned from Xbox Live

How's this for some offbeat news to start your you-can-no-longer-wear-white season? A few blogs I read this morning are reporting that people on the Xbox Live online service are being forbidden from using gamertags (read: screen names for Xbox 360)

Half a million German students choose SUSE on the desktop

Black Hat Linux support (xkcd)

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How to expand Linux in two styles: Novell vs. Red Hat

As a journalist, I get perturbed when I see talking heads on TV (on issues political, technological or otherwise) "attack the messenger" when the message they're delivering isn't something they agree with. The theory is, of course, that if you can discredit the person, then the public will not...

Does Oracle 11g mean more Linux?

Oracle announced today the general...

LinuxWorld: User Q&A with Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian

There wasn't as much clapping as I thought there'd be. What I mean is; is when a user stepped up to the microphone to grill Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian about Microsoft, the GPLv3 and those infamous "coupons," there wasn't the zealous explosion of applause that I had become accustomed to over the...

Replacing Microsoft Small Business Server: IT pro asks for open source software alternatives

David Crook, a consultant and 20-year IT veteran, has issued a challenge -- via SearchEnterpriseLinux.com -- to the open source community. He tells me he has a shiny new IBM xSeries server "sitting idle waiting for something to make its life a little less boring." His first thought was to install...

HP earns EAL 4 certification on Linux

Today HP execs wrote to tell us that their company has been awarded a top international Linux security certification. The certification, called the Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) Common Criteria security certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, applies to HP servers, workstations and...

Linux development increases 34% since 2006

A survey of developers and IT managers in North America found that the number of developers targeting Linux for their server- and client-side applications increased by 34% over the past year. The Evans Data Spring 2007 North American Development survey of more than 400 IT decision makers also...

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...