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By Brian Proffitt The promise of cloud computing is very compelling. Just listen to the pitch for hybrid clouds: “If your organization needs more computing resources, why purchase extra hardware? Just set up a connection to a public cloud, use the extra machines to your heart’s content, and stop using them when your needs are satisfied.” Sounds [...]  by Gunnar Hellekson I’m setting up a new computer. I get through the registration screens, install my software, change my wallpaper, and everything’s working fine. I’m left, though, with a lingering, uneasy feeling: I don’t know if this machine is secure. I’m a computer guy, so I know how to set up strong passwords and firewalls, [...] by Mike Esser
Before heading out to film this story on the Open High School of Utah, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had a lot of the same questions most people would have about an online high school: What kind of students go to high school online? How are teachers building their [...] While Ububtu 10.10 doesn’t officially “come out” until Sunday, previews galore have been running everywhere this week. Of interest to readers of this weekly Enterprise Linux blog is NetworkWorld’s review of the server edition. Julie Bort reports on the new release’s tight integration with Amazon and makes the following comment: “One of the more interesting [...] The Internet, September 28, 2010 – The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a major change in the project’s structure. After ten years’ successful growth with Sun Microsystems as founding and principal sponsor, the project launches an independent foundation called “The Document Foundation”, to fulfil the promise [...] Is the next step virtualization of the system, so you can run it anywhere? Redhat announced kernel security and bug fix update multiple vulnerabilities (Also applies to CentOS). Also Fedora 10 & 11 have kernel updates for multiple vulnerabilities. Updates to Firefox products have also cascaded into Fedora updates: blam (F10, F11), chmsee (F11), epiphany (F11), epiphany-extensions (F11), evolution-rss (F10, F11), firefox (F10, F11), galeon (F10, F11), gecko-sharp2 [...] There is an animated discussion on openFATE the Open SuSE feature tracking site. It has been proposed that OpenSuSE use KDE as the default setting for the desktop environment because: It is confusing for new Linux users if they have to decide between KDE and GNOME during the installation. New users don´t know either of them. [...] Andy Updegrove announced in a post on ConsortiumInfo.orgthe formation of a new group to advocate for the use of Open Source software in government. He also announced his appointment to the board of advisors. A new web site has been created for the group, Open Source for America, or OSA. The mission of OSA is to [...] At the close of trading Friday July 24, Standard and Poors, the leading index provider will replace CIT Group with Red Hat Inc, in the 500th place. As of July 17, CIT Group had a market capitalization of $275 Million. Red Hat is an open source software solution provider to enterprises worldwide. Founded [...] |
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