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New MSN Messenger Trojan Spreading Quickly
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Updated: An MSN Messenger Trojan is growing a botnet by hundreds of infected PCs per hour.
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Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports
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Analysis -- What do Linux users want from their desktop? The Linux Foundation's survey has the answers.
While the LF's third annual desktop Linux survey doesn't officially end until November 30th, the number of daily respondents have shrunk to...
49 Open Source Projects in the Spotlight
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Too often, open source projects labor in near obscurity. No corporate stipend, no team of publicists, no media blurbs for every new release. But the open source community is a vital source of productive creativity – truly an engine of the future.
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Red Hat is ready for high-performance computing
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Red Hat may be not be a super-computer company, but with its just-announced partnership with Platform Computing, it is ready to deliver the enterprise-grade high-performance computing goods.
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Red Hat turns to Platform for Linux cluster charge
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Red Hat and Platform Computing have opted to attack the high performance computing realm together.
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Google Offers $10M in Software Prizes
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. is offering $10 million in prizes for people who build the best software to enhance the company's upcoming cell phone operating system.
The Mountain View-based company is developing a free cell phone software p...
Google Dials Into the Cell Phone Market
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. wants to become as influential in the mobile market as it is on the Internet — and the online search leader thinks it can do that without sticking its prized brand on a cell phone.
The Mountain View-based compa...
Can a small business afford not to run Linux - As I was doing some research for another article, I ran across a forum in which small business users were discussing why they wanted a particular software product (Quickbooks) ported to Linux. One poster's comments caught my attention. What he sai...
Linux ousts Windows for Nigerian Classmate PCs - Nigerian elementary schools should still receive mainly Linux machines instead of Windows models when a large batch of Intel Classmate notebooks arrives, writes InfoWorld. Linux vendor Mandriva had signed a deal to provide support and a custom operat...
How to customise a Linux distro into a plug and play system - The world is on the verge of something stupendous: recent times have seen the launch of two customised Linux distros which just plug and play. Everex released the gPC, running gOS, based on Ubuntu, and well-known hardware vendor Asus unfurled the ...
$200 Ubuntu Linux PC Now Available at Wal-Mart
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Everex's TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores.
"It's $200, with no gimmicks or subsidies," Everex spokesman David Liu said.
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The Past 12 Linux Kernels Benchmarked - Taking a break from our graphics excitement last week with the release of AMD's 8.42.3 Display Driver, we have finished our largest (and most time consuming) Linux performance comparison to date. We have taken the last 12 major kernel releases, from ...
Microsoft, SubSonic, and Me
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This is the sixth rewrite of this post. It’s not that I don’t know how to write a thought, nor that people are telling me what to write. It’s just a big deal (at least to me).
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What Is It Like Migrating Mission Critical Servers from Paid Linux (RHEL) to Free Linux (CentOS) - Q: When we spoke several months ago you were considering a move from Red Hat to a free binary clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) like CentOS. Are you still going forward with that, and if so, why? A: Yes. We've been using Red Hat 7.3 for...
How Not to Treat Your Readership - Originally, I planned to spend this week's column to begin a constructive discussion on what constitutes the kind of fair and objective criticism of Linux people would prefer to read on Linux Today. I have gotten a lot of (mostly positive, yet concer...
