Operating system vendors were given two months notice before a serious security flaw was made public but some have yet to resolve the issue, a security researcher has claimed.
Linux vendors are salivating at the prospect of taking market share away from Microsoft's Windows in the PC desktop market as enterprises embark on the biggest desktop refresh since Y2K.
Linux vendors Debian, Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrakesoft have attacked a recent Forrester report that compared Microsoft's security with that of Linux.
Microsoft has made an investment of up to $10m in Vintela, a company that aims to consolidate management tools for several operating systems, this week.
Stung by IBM's high profile in the Linux market, Compaq has rolled out migration tools and other initiatives to win over users of the operating system.
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Linux vendors Debian, Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrakesoft have attacked a recent Forrester report that compared Microsoft's security with that of Linux.
Novell and Mandrakesoft have accused Microsoft's chief executive of being selective with the facts in his latest e-mail attacking Linux.
Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
By choosing the safe Windows XP choice for student laptops, the NSW Department of Education and training is turning its back on the chance to turn hundreds of thousands of students into armchair developers and handcuffing itself to a rocky Windows 7 upgrade path.
The launch of Windows Vista will create a huge opportunity for Linux vendors to take a larger share of the corporate desktop market, according to the president of Linux Australia.
Return on investment figures, which are commonly used by vendors to justify the value of their products, are meaningless -- especially when it comes to security, claims Bruce Schneier.
The president of Linux Australia said on Monday that Microsoft has left out many "interesting" developments in Vista -- such as a new file system, which creates an important opportunity for open source vendors.
Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes.
The E6 tries valiantly to be a smartphone and a sexy consumer gadget. It's a pity then, that it didn't try that little bit harder.
Apple's move to adopt Intel chips will inevitably result in new victors and casualities in the desktop battlefield. Here's a sample.
Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.
Hoping to focus the attention of Linux developers, Linux leader Linus Torvalds releases a preliminary version of the next kernel of the open-source operating system.
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