As expected, the city government in Munich, Germany, voted officially this week to drop Windows from 14,000 desktop PCs, opting instead to go with an open-source solution based on Linux. The Munich migration is, by far, the largest contract loss...
The Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB), provided by the Open Security Foundation (OSF), is now online and available to the public. OSVDB is an archive of known vulnerabilities and includes vulnerability data pertaining to all platforms...
Many of you operate networks that involve a mix of OSs, or maybe you're considering adding systems that run on other platforms. Windows and the many Linux varieties are the dominant platforms of the day, but a few other OSs--varieties of Berkeley...
If there was ever any doubt that Linux had made it to the software big leagues, consider the following: Microsoft, the industry's 800-pound gorilla, has just launched an advertising campaign aimed directly at the open-source software (OSS)...