One of most exciting
areas to emerge in
information security has
been honeynets. These
networks are designed to
be compromised in order
to capture all the tools
and activities of the
attackers. We had the
opportunity to talk with
...
We've all seen the
headlines announcing that
Linux is rapidly
supplanting proprietary
operating systems at
business enterprises
throughout the world.
IBM's support for Linux
has certainly played a
significant role in this
evolutio...
Ask some end users what
Linux Standard Base (LSB)
is and most likely they
either won't know
anything about it, or
know a little bit but not
enough to qualify as
understanding what all
the buzz around LSB is
about. Ask three ISVs and...
It's 2:00 a.m., you're
working on that critical
presentation, and the
power goes out. Since you
moved your power supply
to your significant
other's computer, you
just lost all your work.
Over the past few years,
many IT organizations
have begun to adopt
internal service level
agreements (SLAs)
designed to ensure the
performance and
accountability of IT
systems that support
critical business
functions. If you don't...
Since its beginning in
1982, Orbital Sciences
has become a pioneer in
developing smaller
rockets and satellite
systems for such diverse
purposes as intercepting
hostile missiles launched
against the U.S. or
launching satellites for ...
Speedy disk backups are
gaining in popularity as
networking demands
increase, but the
traditional tape data
protection won't
disappear overnight.
Maybe it's time to think
about the best of both
worlds.
Last month, I began this
column by talking about
the many different file
redirection options
available from within the
shell, whether you're a
bash or csh fan (or some
variant thereof). What I
deliberately ignored,
however, was the ...
Linux has changed the
economics of how
companies do business by
shifting the OS and
infrastructure models
they use from more
expensive, proprietary
Unix-based systems to
lower-cost,
standards-based Linux
platforms. This has
dram...
Mindbridge, the makers of
IntraSmart, a software
suite for intranet
applications, always
purchased PC clones for
desktop machines. The
cost of the hardware came
to about $250 each,
without the operating
system. Testa suddenly
real...
Why haven't you already
moved your Microsoft
Windows IIS server
infrastructure to Apache
on Linux? Does the idea
that something is
inexpensive (free)
automatically bring to
mind the old adage, 'You
get what you pay for?' Do
you fe...
Mark Hinkle, LinuxWorld
Magazine's editor of
desktop technology and
CIO of NeTraverse, makers
of Win4Lin, talks to
Kevin Bedell about the
latest developments in
the Linux desktop and
Windows-to-Linux
migration.
The move to Enterprise
Linux is accelerating.
Enterprise Linux,
provided by RedHat, SuSE,
and a number of open
source projects, supports
clustering, load
balancing, and high
availability. Yahoo is
using Linux with the
MySQL open s...
For this issue, I'm going
to talk with long-time
Linux author Mark Sobell.
Mark's first Linux book
came out in 1996, when
Linux was in its infancy.
In this interview Mark
discusses Red Hat's
Fedora Core 2 version of
Linux and his ex...
On June 30, IBM and two
U.S. senators announced
the initial deployment of
a system to link local
Mississippi law
enforcement agencies to a
single database of public
safety information. The
federally funded project
will deliver publi...
The benefits of practical
training can never be
overstated, particularly
when it comes to wide
area networking, but many
training institutions are
unable to provide the
hands-on training that
will give students an
edge in the real w...
It has been nearly three
years since the Open
Systems Development Labs
(OSDL) formed the Carrier
Grade Linux (CGL) Working
Group to advance Linux in
the communications
network infrastructure
space. CGL is Linux -
Linux significantly...
SAS (www.sas.com) is the
world's largest privately
held software company and
a global leader in
business intelligence
software. SAS, founded in
1976 and headquartered in
Cary, N.C., has taken a
different path than many
of the
'Joh...
WatchIT, a rich media
company that produces
education on demand,
recently released a
six-part series of
interactive programs
titled 'Linux Education
Series,' targeted at
executives and others who
would like to learn about
the Linu...
When Rackspace Managed
Hosting started in 1998
to lease Internet
colocated servers to
customers, they went with
Linux almost everywhere
in an effort to keep
costs down. In fact,
heavy use of Linux was
standard in the
low-margin ma...
There are some people who
are passionate about the
differences between 'free
software' and 'open
source.' I'm beginning to
wonder if the difference
matters. The term 'free
software' came into use
at about the same time
that Richard ...
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Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
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I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha