Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.
Google ditches Windows on security concerns
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 1 Jun 2010
Novell is very pleased with the jury’s decision confirming Novell’s ownership of the Unix copyrights, which SCO had asserted to own in its attack on Linux. Novell remains committed to promoting Linux, including by defending Linux on the intellectual property front.
Read more from the source: http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=2153
The Salt Lake Tribune has a complete write up of the story: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14786202
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 30 Mar 2010
The US Department of Defense has reiterated its commitment to Open Source software and released a memo clarifying it's use:
To effectively achieve its missions, the Department of Defense must develop and update its software-based capabilities faster than ever, to anticipate new threats and respond to continuously changing requirements. The use of Open Source Software (OSS) can provide advantages in this regard. This memorandum provides clarifying guidance on the use of OSS and supersedes the previous DoD CIO memorandum dated May 8,2003 (reference (a)).
The memo will soon be posted the DOD Memorandums site:
http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/policy/memorandums.shtml
Read a commentary at David Wheeler's Blog
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 27 Oct 2009
A long time coming. Since upstream vendor Red Hat released their 5.4 back in September. Well worth the wait:
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.4 for
i386 and x86_64 Architectures.
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 22 Oct 2009
IBM announced an extension of its Microsoft-Free PC effort together with Canonical Ubuntu Linux:
The IBM/Canonical offer is an interesting one and the timing against Windows 7 is a brilliant stroke of marketing.
Read more:
Posted by Andrew on Tue, 20 Oct 2009