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Novell announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), containing enhancements in virtualization, management, hardware enablement and interoperability. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 is a Xen-based virtualization solution with full support from Microso...

Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. With this latest update, subscribers can achieve greater return on their IT investment with new hardware support capabilities, selected new software technologies and numerous quality improvements. And, the certified ap...

Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to...

'Compliance and security are the new Software Quality drivers,' said Dr Adam Kolawa, cofounder and CEO of Parasoft Corporation, talking live on SYS-CON.TV to Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of JDJ.

Current storage solution paradigms are facing a bumpy road ahead with the rapid emergence of the Linux-based cluster as a vehicle of choice in the enterprise storage market. Most readers will be familiar with the problems associated with the use of the Direct Attached Storage (DAS) par...

Client Server News and LinuxGram, its sister publication, have asked the Utah district court hearing the SCO Group's $5 billion suit against IBM and IBM's subsequent counterclaims to open all the filings that have been sealed. SCO's suit claims IBM improperly incorporated aspects of SC...

First chipmakers like Transmeta and AMD say they are working to make their microprocessors capable of protecting computers from virus and worm attacks, now Red Hat joins in - based on a prototype from Intel - and will start incorporating 'No eXecute' (NX) to help prevent buffer overflo...

No one else says it quite like Michael Robertson. 'The world doesn't have to suffer through poor software which invites hackers, like Microsoft Outlook,' the Lindows Inc. chief executive writes, in his latest epistle to Lindows/Linspire fans. 'Desktop Linux is a viable alternative,' he...

'Security certifications and compliance with standards are top priorities for Red Hat and are key drivers of innovation,' noted Paul Cormier, executive vice president of Engineering at Red Hat. 'We are committed to industry standards and will continue to drive acceptance and adherence ...

Linux folks tend to have a better eye on security. I realize that's an overwhelmingly general and wide-sweeping statement, but that's my opinion. I've been working with Linux for a very long time, and most of the other users in the community tend to be highly technical and thus aware o...

'The conclusions drawn by Forrester have extremely limited real-world value for customers assessing the practical issue of how quickly serious vulnerabilities get fixed,' say GNU/Linux vendors Debian, Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, and SUSE. The four have joined together to give a common stat...

In case that sounds like a secret code, it's supposed to be a beta of the 2.6-based Fedora Core that supports SELinux or Security Enhanced Linux, which means the security modules endorsed by the National Security Agency (NSA). And that in turn means granular permissions for all users, ...