Date: Wed, 5. August 2009 15:05:08

angry tapir sends along coverage from Good Gear Guide of a recent Microsoft !0-K SEC filing: "Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move is an acknowledgment of the first viable competition from Linux to Microsoft's Windows client business, due mainly to the use of Linux on netbooks, which are rising in prominence as alternatives to full-sized notebooks. ... 'Client faces strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market,' Microsoft said in the filing. 'Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat.'"pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/04/2323253/Microsoft-Acknowledges-Linux-Threat-To-Windows?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/08/04/2323253"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/04/2323253/Microsoft-Acknowledges-Linux-Threat-To-Windows?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MKzOOMxe7M3WfrhZCWH_dtCWm9Y/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MKzOOMxe7M3WfrhZCWH_dtCWm9Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MKzOOMxe7M3WfrhZCWH_dtCWm9Y/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/MKzOOMxe7M3WfrhZCWH_dtCWm9Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/U0BFgFKhDTI" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 3. February 2009 15:05:35

jfruhlinger writes "If you use a Unix machine, it probably has a funny name. And if you work in an environment where there are multiple Unix machines, they probably have funny names that are variations on a theme. No, you're not the only one! This article explores the phenomenon, showing that even the CIA uses a whimsical server naming scheme." What are some of your best (worst?) naming schemes?pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/02/2228254amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/02/02/2228254"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/02/2228254amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TQPpnHMWq8rBmQ8eIbJUCWXcclY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TQPpnHMWq8rBmQ8eIbJUCWXcclY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Hq7TOFkERBI" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 22. February 2010 15:05:30

The Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. As the LTSP team wanted this release to be some kind of a reference point in LTSP's history, LDM (LTSP Display Manager) 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 were released on the same day. Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available. For other distributions, packages should be available very soon. And the upstream code is, as always, available on Launchpad."pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/225233/After-2-Years-of-Development-LTSP-52-Is-Out?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/21/225233"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/225233/After-2-Years-of-Development-LTSP-52-Is-Out?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KhfkxNtt70X7rZgBE1pIaUE9iXM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KhfkxNtt70X7rZgBE1pIaUE9iXM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KhfkxNtt70X7rZgBE1pIaUE9iXM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KhfkxNtt70X7rZgBE1pIaUE9iXM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Nuv1OliP_MM" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Wed, 25. February 2009 15:05:37

CWmike writes "Red Hat used to be in the desktop business along with all the other Linux distributors. Then, they left. Now, however, Red Hat is switching from Xen to KVM for virtualization. As part of that switchover, Red Hat will be using not only KVM, but the SolidICE/SPICE desktop virtualization and management software suite to introduce a new server-based desktop virtualization system. Does this mean that Red Hat will be getting back into the Linux desktop business? That's the question I posed to Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, in a phone call after the Red Hat/KVM press conference, and he told me that, 'Yes. Red Hat will indeed be pushing the Linux desktop again.'"pa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/24/1721248amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/02/24/1721248"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/24/1721248amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/wLwYmkKnen7njsu3f-XhR3irPmM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/wLwYmkKnen7njsu3f-XhR3irPmM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/wouuXzJSw8Q" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 19. January 2009 03:11:52

danboid writes "I'm an IT technician at a large school near Manchester, England. We currently have two separate networks (one for pupils, one for staff) each with its own Windows Server 2003 Active Directory box handling authentication and storing users' files. We're planning on restructuring the network soon and we'd like to be able to replace the two aging AD servers with a single, more powerful Linux server running an open source OpenLDAP implementation. The main contenders for this purpose seem to be Fedora Directory Server, OpenDS, and Apache Directory Server; but I've been unable to find meaningful comparisons among the three. I'd like to hear which solution Slashdot readers recommend. What is your experience with ease of implementation / maintenance? Any stories of similar (un)successful migrations? Any other tips for an organization wanting to drop AD for a FOSS equivalent?"pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/17/2255247amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/01/17/2255247"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/17/2255247amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hXhwYyuMnVz1sTI9IxmIRk2siC8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hXhwYyuMnVz1sTI9IxmIRk2siC8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/vy8O5MJgD2c" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Tue, 17. May 2011 08:04:25

jbrodkin writes "Long the enemy of Linux users, Microsoft is apparently seeing dollar signs in the Linux-dominated Web server market. Microsoft's virtualization software, Hyper-V, will immediately add support for CentOS Linux, a community version of Red Hat that even Microsoft notes is a 'popular Linux distribution for hosters.' 'This enables our Hosting partners to consolidate their mixed Windows + Linux infrastructure on Windows Server Hyper-V,' Microsoft said. In addition to Web hosting, this targets another area where Microsoft is stuck in second place: the virtualization market dominated by VMware." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Date: Thu, 3. September 2009 15:46:49

Forty years ago, a new operating system called Unix was created, and a new revolution in computing began. Today, Unix-based operating systems still run many of the biggest and most important computing systems in the world. In fact, the core of Unix can be found in every major operating system in use today, from Apple's Mac OS X to Linux to, yes, even Windows. If Unix itself hadn't forked into many different versions, it might very well be the dominant OS in use today. In honor of the 40th anniversary of Unix, we're taking a look at some of the many different iterations of Unix operating systems.br/ - ... pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uEKmB28t-w2KseLvhkByXwNY5eQ/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uEKmB28t-w2KseLvhkByXwNY5eQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uEKmB28t-w2KseLvhkByXwNY5eQ/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uEKmB28t-w2KseLvhkByXwNY5eQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:l6gmwiTKsz0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~ff/RSS/tech?a=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/RSS/tech?i=-AOH87tpwLs:BxIkYdSsqBM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RSS/tech/~4/-AOH87tpwLs" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 23. July 2009 14:46:00

Like any major national entry point, the San Diego Port Authority deals with its fair share of security headaches. The real-world port is patrolled by local Harbor Police, environmental monitors, airport security, military security and the customs and immigration authorities you'd expect. Responsibility for IT security, though, came down to how alert and persistent a staff of 18 people could be, when it was already supporting 11 separate sites, more than 700 users, more than 60 networking devices making up a wide-area network, and a mix of Microsoft, NetWare and Unix servers.

Date: Mon, 15. June 2009 14:17:00

Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

Date: Fri, 2. September 2011 08:04:45

CWmike writes "The Apache open-source project has patched its Web server software to quash a bug that a denial-of-service (DoS) tool has been exploiting. Apache 2.2.20, released Tuesday, plugs the hole used by an 'Apache Killer' attack tool. On Aug. 24, project developers had promised a fix within 48 hours, then revised the timetable two days later to 24 hours. The security advisory did not explain the delay." Read more of this story at Slashdot.