Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Dell says Ubuntu is safer than Windows; SouthEast LinuxFest

  An Open Source Weekend | SouthEast LinuxFest Part II
 
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Dell says Ubuntu is safer than Windows
Amy Vernon: Linux has a powerful booster in the never-ending debate over what OS is safest from malware and spyware: Dell. Read More


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Virtual Branch Networking (VBN) 2.0
Learn how Checker's Drive-in Restaurants, a fast food chain with over 825 locations in 20 states, reduced their WAN costs, simplified IT management and met PCI compliance requirements with Aruba's Virtual Branch Networking solution. Read More!

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Deploying a Secure WLAN
This paper walks through the steps to build a highly-secure wireless LAN and explains the technical considerations for: • Wireless privacy • Authentication • Client management and NAC • Network firewall and intrusion detection and protection • Identity-based access control • Rogue detection and WIDS • Compliance Read more!

An Open Source Weekend
Stephen Spector: This past weekend I didn't watch baseball, World Cup soccer, or basketball; instead I sponsored a hallway table in a Marriott hotel in Spartanburg, SC to meet, discuss, and argue over all things open source at the SouthEast LinuxFest. Read More

SouthEast LinuxFest Part II
Stephen Spector: Here are three videos from the LinuxFest that will make you feel like you were there. Read More

Does Open Source Suffer From A Glass Ceiling?
Alan Shimel: Does open source software suck so much money out of the software acquisition equation that companies struggle to break the billion dollar business level? Read More

Distributing Open Source? Survey Says…
Kim Weins: The recent lawsuits around GPL violations have definitely raised the awareness of many users of open source software. Read More


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Apple would rather remove app than leave open-source license
Amy Vernon: GNU Go, the free, GNU-based version of the ancient and popular game of Go — was available as a free download in the Apple iTunes store. Until recently. Read More

Does the "F" in FOSS Have To Stand For Fabulous?
Alan Shimel: You can't blame Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation for having sugar plum dreams of world domination for Linux. Read More

Not All Open Source is Created Equal
Eric Gries: When I started to work at Lucid, it was pretty clear to me that I was new to the open source world. So I started by talking to open source luminaries like Zack Urlocker, Mark Brewer, Matt Asay, Andrei Elkin, Larry Augustine, and others. Read More

Brazil Wants To Be The Next India Using Open Source
Alan Shimel: Angelica Marti of Computer Weekly has just spent a week down in Brazil meeting with government and other IT officials about Brazil's desire to become a major force in software development outsourcing. Read More


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Studying the Role of Microsoft and Novell
Dustin Puryear: Microsoft and Novell teamed up to do a proof of concept with Hyper-V and SuSE Linux. Read More

Google's problems with Android Market continue
After applications recently started disappearing from the Android Market, Google continued to have reliability issues with the online store as developers over the weekend experienced issues with erroneous download counts. Read More

Microsoft offers globalization for JavaScript apps
A new open source plugin provides the capability for the jQuery library Read More

HP to buy slim Linux OS from Phoenix
Hewlett-Packard will buy Linux-based quick-boot OS and client virtualization assets from Phoenix Technologies for US$12 million, Phoenix said on Thursday. Read More

Visit the Open Source Subnet home page
Visit the Open Source Subnet home page for daily news items, blogs, discussions and podcasts of interest to enterprise open source users. Follow Open Source Subnet on Twitter @OSSubnet. Read More

 
 
 

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