Archive for: August 8, 2006

NewsFactor Network - Very few government users are using [the free Red Hat-sponsored] Fedora or the nonsupport versions of Linux,” said Michael Fitzmaurice, a high-performance computer technologist at the reseller GTSI. “So they are actually paying a support fee, which …

… download and test in the mepis ‘testing’ subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber’s Site …
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Wired News - It also works because few companies view the Blackberry as a plausible attack vector. “Because it’s a handheld device, most people don’t think it’s something that can actually harm the rest of your internal network,” D’Aguanno said. …

Ars Technica - Eight current distributions of Linux were tested, including Mandrake 10, SuSE Pro 9.2, Slackware 10.1 and Knoppix 3.7. These were matched up against Windows XP (curiously misspelled as “Windows XT” in the graph) and Windows Server 2003. …

E-Commerce Times - “Virtualization is very hot and is of great interest to many operational and efficiency-minded people,” noted Interarbor Solutions Principal Analyst Dana Gardner. “Being able to do virtualization with open source through a lower-cost distribution
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