Linux : Google and the Giant Robotic Flyswatter.
linuxjournal.com — If there's one fact of life for large companies, it's that small companies and individuals are going to sue to try to get a piece of your much bigger pie. As corporate pies come, Google has a pretty big one, and they've had no shortage of suits over the years from those looking to get their knife in the company's pie-pan. (Submitted by greenx) More...
Linux : Internet Censorship in the US? Just Law Enforcement?
linuxjournal.com — It would seem that George Orwell might have been more prophetic than we perhaps gave him credit for. Currently, our televisions cannot watch us, but at the rate things are progressing, it is only a matter of time. After all, most PCs now come with web cams and certainly 90% of cell phones. (Submitted by greenx) More...
Government Makes an Appointment for an Open Source Checkup
linuxjournal.com — Buried in the depths of the bill — halfway down page 488 in the Library of Congress' Bill Text Div. B — sits Section 4104(b). In a succinct 262 words, Section 4104(b) directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study the availability, cost, utility, and interoperability of Open Source health information technology (Submitted by pavelmah) More...
The Move To Linux, Stymied By Hardware.
linuxjournal.com — With news today of Windows 7 being made available in no less than six different versions, it is getting harder and harder to not move lock, stock, and PGP key to Linux on a full time basis. Except… For decades, I have listened to my father gripe about the computer industry and their inability to standardize on hardware. (Submitted by greenx) More...
Become The New Face of Linux -- Accepting Applications Soon!
linuxjournal.com — The Linux Foundation — the Oregon-based non-profit responsible for promoting Linux and keeping developer-in-chief Linus Torvalds off the dole — is about to launch a contest aimed at filling the Linux gap left in the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" commercials, and as one might expect, have set out a competition that highlights the collaborative nature of the (Submitted by rtaibah) More...
Where are the Enterprise Management Tools for Linux?
linuxjournal.com — On January 5, Doc Searls asked What would you use Exchange for? A good question and based on the number of comments, it is generating a lot of discussion. As someone currently embedded in a primarily Windows environment, I want to know where the enterprise management tools for the Linux desktop are? (Submitted by motang) More...
Building a Scalable High-Availability E-Mail System
linuxjournal.com — In early 2006, Marshall University laid out a plan to migrate HOBBIT (Figure 1), an HP OpenVMS cluster handling university-wide e-mail services. Plagued with increasing spam attacks, this cluster experienced severe performance degradation. Although our employee e-mail store was moved to Microsoft Exchange in recent years.... (Submitted by bianconeri4ever) More...
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