Vista, Leopard, Linux to compete in hack contest
Apple’s OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. Run by the organizers of the CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 security conference, the competition is a repeat of the “PWN to Own” contest at CanSecWest in 2007, when security researchers competed [...]
Linux Guru Bashes Apple OS
Linus Torvalds, leader of the cult of Linux, took a swipe at Apple’s OS X and Microsoft Vista in the same breath at a conference in Australia last week, adding more fuel to the simmering programming language battle between the world’s high-profile geeks. Speaking at the linux.conf.au conference in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks ago, [...]
Torvalds: Linux ready to go green
The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linux leader Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne this week attending Australia’s largest Linux conference. In an interview at the linux.conf.au conference, the developer of the Linux kernel admitted that the operating system was lagging behind on [...]
what is One Laptop per Child(OLPC)?
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, with a dual-mode display—both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3× the resolution. The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a [...]
Dell to Introduce More Linux OS Desktops and Notebooks
PC maker Dell has announced its collaboration with Canonical Inc. Both companies together will soon offer more desktops and notebooks incorporating the Linux operating system instead of Windows. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Canonical Inc said, “What’s been announced to date is not the full extent of what we will see over the next couple [...]
Web 2.0 is built on Open Source
Amazon uses Linux. eBay uses Windows. But what OSs and webservers run Web 2.0? We tested 17 of our favorites and found out. The script is included below to check for yourself. Read more Site Webserver Operating System Apache httpd Linux Apache httpd Linux Apache httpd 1.3.33 Linux lighttpd 1.4.13 Linux lighttpd 1.4.11 Linux Unknown [...]
Tamil Nadu gets dual-boot Win-Linux desktops
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has finalized a tender for 40,000 Lenovo desktops which can be installed with both Novell’s Suse Linux and Microsoft’s Windows XP Starter Edition. According to C. Umashankar, managing director of Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot), the desktops will be deployed across schools and government departments in the state. [...]
Dell to Sell Linux PCs
After collecting some 1,800 new product and service ideas from IT users and customers using an online “suggestion box,” Dell Inc. has announced that it’s taking the user suggestions seriously and will soon debut and sell a new line of certified, user-ready Linux-loaded desktop and laptop computers.The Dell IdeaStorm Web site, where customers and other [...]
Linus Torvalds – Godfather of Open Source
Linus Torvalds was just 21 when he changed the world. Working out of his family’s apartment in Helsinki in 1991, he wrote the kernel of a new computer operating system called Linux that he posted for free on the Internet — and invited anyone interested to help improve it. Today, 15 years later, Linux powers [...]
Oracle unveils new apps, Linux support program
Oracle Corp. has unveiled a new version of its Oracle E-Business Suite of business applications and a support program for the Red Hat Linux operating system. The E-Business Suite 12 software adds features to help worldwide operations more easily consolidate data, said John Wookey, senior vice president of application development at Oracle. The new version [...]
