Hewlett-Packard has signed a partnership with Linux NetworX under which each company will use technology from the other for lower-cost supercomputers, the companies plan to announce Wednesday.
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The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm predicted Monday in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.
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Programmers have found a bug in newer versions of the Linux operating system that, under unusual circumstances, could cause systems to drop data.
The data-loss bug afflicts the newest 2.4.20 version of the heart, or kernel, of Linux. The new kernel was released Nov. 28 in Linux companies' updates but is not yet a part of their packaged products.
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The data-loss bug afflicts the newest 2.4.20 version of the heart, or kernel, of Linux. The new kernel was released Nov. 28 in Linux companies' updates but is not yet a part of their packaged products.
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By dropping software from Microsoft and avoiding "Intel inside," retailer Wal-Mart Stores is offering a $199 computer it says is a hot seller on its Web site, attracting novices looking for a way onto the Internet as well as high-end users wanting a second box.
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Saw over PCLinuxOnline:
Dirk Mueller, release coordinator for KDE 3.1, announced today in a mail to the KDE development mailinglist that KDE 3.1 will be most likely delayed till 2003 due to pending security issues.
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Dirk Mueller, release coordinator for KDE 3.1, announced today in a mail to the KDE development mailinglist that KDE 3.1 will be most likely delayed till 2003 due to pending security issues.
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PCLinuxOnline reports that KDE3.1 Final may be delayed again
Sun Microsystems is pondering whether or not to offer Solaris code in an open-source format to boost deployment of the operating system on Intel hardware, but questions remain about the effectiveness of open source, a Sun official said this week.
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Entering a market that has attracted the likes of Sun Microsystems and raised an alarm at Microsoft, Penguin Computing announced Thursday a new desktop PC for businesses that runs on the open-source Linux operating system.
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EVEN corporate users who don't want anything to do with open source can find at least one use for operating systems juggernaut Linux.
"Get a little Linux in your shop," Jonathan Eunice, president of research firm Illuminata, advised the most skeptical among the attendees here at this week's Enterprise Linux Forum. "It never hurts to let your suppliers know you have alternatives. Linux is a great thing to have for vendor management."
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"Get a little Linux in your shop," Jonathan Eunice, president of research firm Illuminata, advised the most skeptical among the attendees here at this week's Enterprise Linux Forum. "It never hurts to let your suppliers know you have alternatives. Linux is a great thing to have for vendor management."
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The future is anything but bright for proprietary Unix operating systems. According to a new report, flavors of Unix from the main vendors--hardware heavyweights HP, IBM and Sun--will lose out to Linux, and even Microsoft's emerging .Net.
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IBM will start shipping a special version of its p630 server next week that runs Linux on IBM's Power4 RISC processors. This marks the first time that IBM has sold Linux on a Power-based server alongside servers that traditionally runs its AIX version of Unix.
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A leading OpenBSD programmer has accused Sun Microsystems of hindering development of the open-source software for its newer computers, causing Sun to scramble to cooperate with the project in response.
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Infoworld has posted a news story on Ernie Ball Inc., which has moved its IT system almost entirely to open-source software
SuSE and MandrakeSoft, two sellers of the Linux operating system, on Monday named new chief executives whose goals will be to attain profitability.
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The Debian Team has reinstalled security.debian.org on the host klecker, which is hosted at XS4all in the Netherlands.
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Another Linux story at CNET News:
Saw over Overclockers.at that the security.debian.org server is down because of a fire.
CNET News reports that Sun has teamed up with firewall maker Check Point Software to offer a security appliance based on Linux
CNET News reports that Red Hat and Covalent Technologies are developing the Apache Web server for AMD's coming 64-bit Opteron processor
SuSE Linux, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International), Conectiva and Turbolinux are all expected to launch on Tuesday the latest versions of their Linux enterprise distributions powered by the UnitedLinux core, according to industry sources late Thursday.
This will be the first time the four Linux distributions are based on the UnitedLinux core, and follows the May announcement by the vendors that they would standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise. The move, they said, should streamline Linux development and certification
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This will be the first time the four Linux distributions are based on the UnitedLinux core, and follows the May announcement by the vendors that they would standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise. The move, they said, should streamline Linux development and certification
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