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)...
With the holidays rushing toward us, the tech industry should be experiencing a quiet time, but a slew of recent developments in the battle over UNIX and Linux ensures that anyone with a stake in this conflict will have some unsettling news to...
The SCO Group revealed this week that a Utah District Court judge ruled in favor of IBM in SCO's trade-secret-violation lawsuit against the computing giant. Earlier this year, SCO sued IBM for $1 billion, alleging that the Linux OS that IBM now...
GemPlus International, a provider of smartcard technology, recently released the results of a survey conducted on the company's behalf by Frost & Sullivan. The company questions 69 executives of Fortune 500 companies to determine their...
Linux distributor Debian revealed this week that a major security flaw in the Linux kernel enabled the electronic attack that compromised four of its servers in late November. The flaw lets attackers with reduced privileges on a Linux machine...
Last week, an attacker compromised several key servers belonging to Linux distribution maker Debian Project, an event that seems to mirror problems Microsoft had 2 years ago when attackers compromised its network. The Debian incursion, however...
In a major shot across the bow of OS market leader Microsoft, Novell announced yesterday that it will purchase Linux distribution maker SUSE LINUX for $210 million. Novell, which already owns Linux desktop environment maker Ximian, is now a...
The Slashdot world is aghast this week over rumors that Microsoft is discontinuing support for Linux and other non-Windows OSs in its upcoming release of Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, an update to the Connectix application the company purchased...
Connected Home EXPRESS readers have a variety of technical skills, and with a topic as complex as Linux, I like to err on the safe side. Installing, configuring, and using Linux is a lot easier now than it was even a year ago and is incomparable...