Microsoft Linux Move Puts Pressure on VMware Submitted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @ 01:27 PM Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News ) pcworld.com -- Microsoft's historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts on the virtualization market and Microsoft's rival VMware.
By allowing greater ability to run Linux on the Hyper-V virtualization platform, Microsoft is making a compelling case that it could be the virtualization vendor of choice for consolidation of Windows and Linux applications, says Gartner analyst George Weiss. Microsoft still lags behind VMware in enterprise features such as live migration. But once Microsoft proves itself "good enough" in terms of functionality, many customers will be intrigued by Hyper-V as a lower-cost alternative to VMware, Weiss says. See the complete story here.Mozilla moves fast to fix security flaw Submitted Friday, July 17, 2009 @ 11:29 AM Firefox company information - ( Firefox News ) tgdaily.com -- Mozilla has released an update to Firefox that fixes a security flaw discovered in the last week.
The company has moved fast to make Firefox 3.5.1 available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users as a free download. It resolves a Just-in-Time (JIT) JavaScript compiler flaw in version 3.5 which left users at risk of memory corruption and malware infection. See the complete story here.Linux booted in one second Submitted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 @ 03:15 PM dvice.com -- Boot times have shortened to around 30 seconds with Windows 7, but now there's some Linux jockeys who have figured out how to cold boot a computer from nothing to operational status in one second. Yes, it's a tech demo, and they're booting an embedded system with minimal drivers, so it's not a full Windows-like environment. But this proves that short boot times are indeed possible. See the complete story here.Introducing the Google Chrome OS Submitted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 @ 11:16 AM Google company information - ( Google News ) googleblog.blogspot.com -- It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. See the complete story here.Psyb0t Attacks Linux Routers Submitted Friday, March 27, 2009 @ 03:21 PM linux-magazine.com -- A botnet named psyb0t has been nesting for a few months in consumer devices that run on Linux with MIPS CPUs, notably routers. Infested devices connect through a botnet over a private Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server to await commands. See the complete story here.Novell releases Suse Linux Enterprise 11 Submitted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 @ 10:40 AM Novell company information - ( Novell News ) Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News ) news.cnet.com -- Novell on Tuesday released Suse Linux Enterprise 11, which includes for the first time a full runtime environment for Microsoft .Net applications.
The open-source company said the new version of the data center operating system shows improvements over its predecessors in terms of interoperability, mission-critical computing, and virtualization. See the complete story here. Microsoft suit over FAT patents could open OSS Pandora's Box Submitted Friday, February 27, 2009 @ 09:35 AM Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News ) arstechnica.com -- Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against TomTom alleging that the device maker's products, including some that are Linux-based, infringe on patents related to Microsoft's FAT32 filesystem. This marks the first time that Microsoft has enforced its FAT patents against the Linux platform, a move that some free software advocates have long feared could be disastrous. See the complete story here.World without Linux Submitted Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 01:00 PM Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News ) Google company information - ( Google News ) AOL company information - ( AOL News ) blogs.computerworld.com -- WindowsWorld 2008: Microsoft CEO and President, Steve Ballmer was happy as a clam today at his WindowsWorld keynote in San Francisco's Gates Center. "Nothing can make me happier to tell you that, Larry Page CEO of Google," a niche AOL search engine, "has agreed to run their search engine on Windows Server 2004."
Ballmer continued, "It can only be good that even Google's customers finally have access to a real server. Unix had its place, but, come on, that old command-line driven thing? Unix hasn't been businesses' operating system of choice since NT was introduced." See the complete story here.Open-Xchange nabs $9 million to fight Exchange Submitted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 @ 08:56 PM news.cnet.com -- Open-source email company Open-Xchange has raised a $9 million Series B round in a difficult financing environment, bringing its total funding to $17.8 million. See the complete story here.Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bon... Submitted Saturday, September 06, 2008 @ 04:55 AM blogs.zdnet.com -- Open-source giant Red Hat has upped the ante in the PC desktop virtualization market with its acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. in a $107-million deal announced this week. See the complete story here.Copy-and-paste comes to the iPhone...and it's open source Submitted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 @ 05:44 PM Apple company information - ( Apple News ) news.cnet.com -- I was very excited to see on OStatic that OpenClip, an open-source copy-and-paste application for the iPhone, is out.
In case you needed proof in a divine being....
Could Apple shut it down, as it has with other applications that it doesn't like? Well, as OStatic points out, OpenClip "uses shared space, outside the common resource space that Apple's SDK protects, to facilitate copy and paste." So maybe it's on firm legal territory. See the complete story here.Microsoft to pay Novell $100 million more for Linux support Submitted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 @ 03:38 AM Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News ) Novell company information - ( Novell News ) news.yahoo.com -- Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) plans to pay software maker Novell Inc (NOVL.O) up to $100 million in additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's proprietary Windows software. See the complete story here.When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache Submitted Friday, July 25, 2008 @ 11:20 PM Microsoft company information - ( Microsoft News ) news.cnet.com -- Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software's biggest supporters. See the complete story here.Google Open-sources Data Exchange Language Submitted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 @ 01:56 PM Google company information - ( Google News ) pcworld.com -- Google has open-sourced its protocol buffers, the company's lingua franca for encoding various types of data, in order to set the stage for a wave of new releases, according to official company blog posts and documents. See the complete story here.Firefox 3.0 boosts Mozilla's market share Submitted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 01:21 AM Firefox company information - ( Firefox News ) computerworld.com -- On the back of the release last week of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Corp.'s open-source browser gained market share at the expense of rivals Internet Explorer and Safari, Net Applications Inc. said today.
Firefox's share ended the week at 19.17%, said Vince Vizzaccaro, the Web metrics firm's executive vice president of marketing. That's up 0.76% from the 18.41% it posted for May. See the complete story here.Alarming Open-Source Security Holes Submitted Monday, May 26, 2008 @ 04:27 PM technologyreview.com -- Back in May 2006, a few programmers working on an open-source security project made a whopper of a mistake. Last week, the full impact of that mistake was just beginning to dawn on security professionals around the world.
In technical terms, a programming error reduced the amount of entropy used to create the cryptographic keys in a piece of code called the OpenSSL library, which is used by programs like the Apache Web server, the SSH remote access program, the IPsec Virtual Private Network (VPN), secure e-mail programs, some software used for anonymously accessing the Internet, and so on. See the complete story here.Mozilla: Final Firefox 3 expected in June Submitted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 06:57 PM Firefox company information - ( Firefox News ) AOL company information - ( AOL News ) news.cnet.com -- Firefox fans looking for a major update to the open-source Web browser probably will get a final version of it next month.
"We're looking for final ship sometime in June," said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, in an interview Wednesday. Mozilla, which was spun out of AOL more than 10 years ago, oversees the Firefox programming project. See the complete story here. Google Backs Open-source CERT Group Submitted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 @ 07:23 AM Google company information - ( Google News ) news.yahoo.com -- Google has thrown its weight behind a fledgling security reporting group for the open-source community.
The search engine giant, long a proponent of open-source software, is now one of three sponsors of oCERT, the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team. See the complete story here.Adobe brings AIR to Linux, joins Linux Foundation Submitted Sunday, March 30, 2008 @ 10:40 PM Adobe company information - ( Adobe News ) news.com -- Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to release an alpha version of AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and announce that it is joining the Linux Foundation. See the complete story here. Vista, MacBook Out--Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest Submitted Sunday, March 30, 2008 @ 03:07 PM Fujitsu company information - ( Fujitsu News ) Sony company information - ( Sony News ) news.yahoo.com -- The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference. See the complete story here.
