Linux Compatible - General (Page 34)

McKusick on SCO's latest copyright claims

General 8074 Published 2003-12-30 06:10 by Philipp Esselbach 0

NewsForge asked longtime Unix and BSD guru Kirk McKusick, who has intimate knowledge of the original AT&T versus BSD legal battles over Unix source code in the early 1990s, to comment on SCO's recent claims of copyright infringement in Linux. McKusick says he believes Torvalds when he says he did not copy the files in question, but notes that may be not the real issue here. McKusick also questions whether the GPL license could be applied to the code even if the requisite copyright notices had appeared.

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Novell files for copyright on SCO code

General 8074 Published 2003-12-23 06:52 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Novell Inc. is re-asserting the claim that it, and not The SCO Group Inc., owns the copyright to the Unix System V source code that has been at the heart of a protracted dispute between SCO and the Linux community. On Monday, the Provo, Utah, software vendor confirmed that it has been quietly registering copyright for some of the same Unix System V code that SCO registered copyright for earlier in the year.

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SCO sends second letter to Linux users

General 8074 Published 2003-12-22 07:25 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The SCO Group plans to announce Monday that it is escalating its campaign to collect license fees from corporations using the Linux operating system, with warning letters to the companies. Supporters of Linux, including IBM and other companies, say that SCO's interpretation of its claim over Linux is exaggerated.

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Linux catches on at coal power plants

General 8074 Published 2003-12-19 18:32 by Philipp Esselbach 0

RWE Innogy, a power company in the United Kingdom, is moving systems that control its coal-fired power plants to open-source Linux.

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NTT DoCoMo to invest in Linux, Symbian phone research

General 8074 Published 2003-12-19 16:26 by Philipp Esselbach 0

TOKYO -- NTT DoCoMo Inc. is planning to provide money to six cellular telephone makers to help them develop advanced handsets based on the Symbian and Linux operating systems and high-speed data communications technology, it said Friday.

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Grid watch: Open standards architecture at the GGF

General 8074 Published 2003-12-18 04:40 by Philipp Esselbach 0

In the first installment of the "Grid Watch" column, I gave you a brief overview of the Global Grid Forum (GGF). Now I'll turn my attention to grid architecture, a topic I find extremely hard to talk about. It's not that I think architecture is boring or unnecessary. Quite the contrary. It's just a huge, rambling, complex topic, and my job here is to pick out what's important to the developer community without getting too lost in the weeds.

IBM proclaims Java server Heal-Thyself

General 8074 Published 2003-12-17 09:02 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Model for Self-Managing Java Servers free download is intended to be a working model of a non-stopping, Java-based server. The server has the self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection of an autonomic computing, self-managed server. This paper provides further information about Autonomic computing systems capable of managing themselves in today's environment.

Linux PC maker names technology chief

General 8074 Published 2003-12-16 16:14 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Dominic Paulraj, who worked on processor and operating system technology at Sun Microsystems, has been named chief technologist at Linare, which sells inexpensive computers using the Linux operating system.

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Novell moving deeper into Linux

General 8074 Published 2003-12-16 13:43 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The software maker continues its move into the Linux market with the release of its first Linux-based desktop services package.

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SCO attacks keep coming back

General 8074 Published 2003-12-15 16:24 by Philipp Esselbach 0

More Internet attacks cut off access to the SCO Group's servers, as the Unix software company struggles to stop the hackers.

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Sun giving away Solaris for test drives

General 8074 Published 2003-12-15 16:24 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Sun Microsystems is offering free copies of its Solaris x86 operating system for evaluation purposes in an effort to get new software into as many hands as possible.

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Open source said on cusp of broad acceptance

General 8074 Published 2003-12-14 05:15 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Burlingame, Calif. -- Open source software, in which developers get access to source code, still is not being used by the masses but is on the cusp of a much broader acceptance, said Brian Behlendorf, founder of Apache, during a speech at a Software Development Forum conference here on Thursday.

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Attack on SCO sites at an end

General 8074 Published 2003-12-13 06:05 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The controversial company's Web site and file servers are back online after being hit by a denial-of-service attack that cut off access for almost two days.

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Security Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked (Maybe it was...)

General 8074 Published 2003-12-12 07:39 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Groklaw has posted an article on the SCO server attack. Thanks Greg.

Quote from that article:

As stated above, the attack is quite an old one. Patches to all Operating Systems that I'm aware of, do exist to stop this sort of attack. For instance, a CISCO document: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/4.html describes the attack and provides ways to stop it. Note the lines: 'Employ vendor software patches to detect and circumvent the problem (if available).' This means, quite simply, that patches exist to mitigate this attack.

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Quote from that link supporting the attack theory:

The paper also does not answer the biggest question: the lack of mitigation.

Attack on SCO's servers intensifies

General 8074 Published 2003-12-11 18:45 by Philipp Esselbach 0

A day-old denial-of-service attack on the Web server of the controversial SCO Group has been expanded to assault the company's mail and file servers, SCO's top network administrator says.

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United Online makes dial-up Linux-friendly

General 8074 Published 2003-12-11 13:17 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Internet service provider announces that it supports the Linux-based operating system, LindowsOS, for its dial-up services.

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Swedish court blocks Lindows

General 8074 Published 2003-12-11 13:17 by Philipp Esselbach 0

A Swedish court has temporarily blocked the distribution of Lindows software in the country, pending a ruling on Microsoft's claim that the company's name violates its Windows trademark.

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Eye on performance: Micro performance benchmarking

General 8074 Published 2003-12-11 13:15 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Java performance enthusiasts Jack Shirazi and Kirk Pepperdine, Director and CTO of JavaPerformanceTuning.com, follow performance discussions all over the Internet to see what's troubling developers. While surfing the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.java, they came across some interesting low-level performance tuning questions. In this installment of Eye on performance, they dive into some bytecode analysis to try and answer some of these questions.

Data attack cripples SCO Web site

General 8074 Published 2003-12-10 18:21 by Philipp Esselbach 0

For the third time this year, unknown attackers deluge the SCO Group's site with enough data to make it inaccessible.

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Single sign-on Security with Tivoli Access Manager

General 8074 Published 2003-12-10 16:44 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Single sign-on allows a user to enter an id and password once, and thereafter be able to step between various applications without being asked to re-authenticate. This new tutorial shows you how to implement a single sign-on (SSO) solution using Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) WebSEAL 4.1 and the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 1.0 open specification. Here's the free Tivoli Access Manager download.