After launching a Web site aimed at letting customers provide feedback on its products, Dell found itself inundated with an unexpected request: Customers want to purchase computers preloaded with Linux and other open-source solutions. Dell's new...
Managing and reviewing system logs is vital for security. If you operating a network that uses both Windows and Linux then you probably have a log consolidation tool to help you pool information into central repositories. Or maybe you manage Linux...
Antivirus maker GRISOFT has expanded its line of antivirus and antispam security products to include support for Linux and FreeBSD. The new products include AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition 7.5 for Linux/FreeBSD, AVG Email Server Edition 7.5...
It's been a very long week. I've spent nearly every waking moment working on new Linux servers. Being predominently a Windows guy, I'm rather pleased at the success so far, painful as it might come...
While this is only tagentially related to security it is very interesting and worth the read nevertheless: Head over to Inside Higher Ed (online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education) and read the synopsis, "Changing the...
Linux is a modular operating system, meaning that there are relatively few interrelationships between any two parts of the program code. Access to Linux’s kernel potentially increases both flexibility and configurability. The reality is that the...
All software, whether open source or commercial, faces attacks. With Linux’s source code open and viewable by all, anyone can identify and patch vulnerabilities. Many arguments for the security of open source software are based on the premise...
While talented Linux administrators exist, there simply isn’t an abundance of them. Linux certification ensures a level of competency, but the scarcity of Linux administrators means that they are harder to find and more costly to acquire than...
Those that mistakenly believe that Linux is a type of UNIX naturally also assume that Linux is the preferred platform for companies migrating off UNIX. In reality, Windows Server 2003 is the most popular platform for UNIX migrations, according to...
On the surface, Linux seems to be UNIX-like in that it is a file-based OS with a scripting shell interface; however, its source code does not descend from the original UNIX. In 1991, Linus Torvalds, a Finnish university student, began the Linux...