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Report: Linux's role growing in enterprise
Enterprise IT shops used to have a clear vision for Linux and Unix use, but the potential of the 2.6 kernel, better vendor support and a competitive commercial Linux market is clouding that demarcation. A recent Burton Group research report concluded that Linux is "good enough" to supplant Unix for some specific high-end tasks generally considered Unix's exclusive territory. Author Gary Hein cautions, however, that Linux is not ready for every enterprise role.
Free Software? Not For You, Baby
How committed is IBM to the open-source movement? Officially, IBM is the world's loudest promoter of open-source software, spending millions to run Linux advertisements and fund an open-source development lab, and devoting hundreds of its own programmers to cranking out open-source code. So it is strange, rivals say, that in the field, IBM's sales reps are battling to keep some customers from moving to Linux and other open-source programs--especially customers currently using AIX, IBM's pricey Unix-based operating system.
Infiniband Leaders Form OpenIB Alliance with Focus on Linux
Leading InfiniBand companies today announced the formation of the OpenIB Alliance, an industry association chartered to deliver a single open source Linux-based software stack for deploying InfiniBand architecture in compliance with the InfiniBand Trade Association interconnect standard.
Mondo Rescue LiveCD backup: a nugget of gold
I received an email a few weeks ago following a column I wrote on backups. The reader said, "I'm looking for a way to back up (preferably image) my current Fedora install to CD-RW. Ideally, I guess what I'm looking for is 'bare-metal' disaster recovery -- i.e., boot up from CD, enter some command(s) and have my (mostly!) working Fedora install re-imaged back to my HD." I didn't, but I suspected I could find a LiveCD for this purpose. Sure enough, Mondo Rescue does everything the man asked for. The only drawback -- if there is one -- is that it's more geared for advanced users or system admins that it is for noobies.
Germany debuts Creative Commons
The German version of the alternative license system Creative Commons was formally launched during the third Wizard of OS conference in Berlin last week. Larry Lessig, Stanford Law School Professor and Creative Commons wizard, presented the license as a simple idea to mark content with freedoms bestowed upon users by authors - in contrast to the trend of ever stricter copyright regimes.
Managing Linux configuration files
The average developer spends more time navigating, learning, and debugging configuration files than you'd expect. But you can save that time -- and loads of energy and frustration -- with one of the tools you probably use every day: your CVS tree. Take these tips on backing up, distributing, and making portable your peskiest Linux™ (and UNIX®) config files.
C++ const Correctness
Using const correctly in order to future-proof today's class designs.
Kernel flaw makes Linux crash easily
A flaw in the Linux kernel allows a 20-line C program to crash most distributions using the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels running on x86 and x86-64 architectures, according to security researchers.
Bergen's CTO on the city's move to Linux
The City of Bergen recently announced plans to migrate many of its servers to SUSE Linux. We spoke to the city's CTO, Ole Bjoern Tuftedal, to get his take on why Norway's second-largest city was making the move.
Norwegian city government switches to open source
In a move that echoes an earlier high-profile migration by the German city of Munich, authorities in the Norwegian city of Bergen have opted to replace existing core Windows and Unix systems with Linux. The two-phase roll-out will see the 20 existing Oracle database servers running on HP-UX that support the City's health and welfare applications replaced with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 running on HP Integrity Itanium 64 bit servers.
Red Hat's Red Flags
When a company's 39-year-old CFO quits just days before quarterly earnings to pursue new opportunities, it's a clue to invest your money elsewhere. When the same company's stock is priced beyond perfection, that's proof it's time to sell.
The Case for Gconf
There has been a lot of commentary recently about Gnome, and a common source of confusion seems to be Gconf - what is it, how does it work, and so on. Some people even seem to confuse Gconf with the registry database in Windows. I will attempt to clear some of this confusion and give an overview of Gconf, and why it looks the way it does.
Big Blue's linux [sic] crusade gains momentum
Exactly one year after IBM top boss, Sam Palmisano's maiden Indian visit that centred around Linux and open source computing, IBM's Linux point man, Jims Stallings, is now on a whirlwind tour to India meeting up customers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and various governments.
Bitstream and Lycoris: Taking Linux fonts to the desktop
Does your job require you to create designs or documents with special fonts? Ever wonder what anti-aliasing fonts or hinting really means? Fonts can improve readability for computer users and are important as elements of style and design. Users of Apple and Windows operating systems have long had a large number of fonts on their systems. Today, Linux is gaining both enhanced font technologies and access to large font foundries as the first independent digital foundry, Bitstream, is working to make sure that users of open source have the same rich text experience as those using other OSes.
Linux seen as secure option as banks replace mainframes with PC servers
Of the 50 financial data managers surveyed for the research, 61% reported that their banks had already moved from mainframes to PC servers in certain key areas. However 73% felt that over-reliance on Windows-based systems could leave banks vulnerable to security breaches and, because of this, 86% would consider using an alternative operating system such as Linux (65%) which is also seen as more cost-effective.
Group to develop Infiniband Linux software
A group of eleven companies and two US national laboratories is forming a consortium to define a standard Linux implementation of the Infiniband interconnect.
IBM ships Linux-based content manager
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of its Express line of server-based applications, IBM on Monday said it is shipping a Linux-based version of Content Manager Express to beta testers and also touted plans to deliver the product on its iSeries platform shortly, with both the Linux and iSeries versions intended for midsize companies.
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