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MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates

Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

ruphus13 writes "Now that Gates has 'retired' from Microsoft, ZDNet is speculating that Microsoft will become much more Open Source friendly. From the article, 'We already see quite a different approach to dealing with OSS and OSS companies from Sam Ramji's group [which is] doing a great job in establishing dialog,' said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange and a former marketing exec at SUSE Linux. 'With Gates' departure, the only mammoth remaining is Ballmer. With him away in a near future, Microsoft will definitely open up. They have to.'" Microsoft could become the world's largest open source company; they've certainly made some concessions to it lately.

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Novell Goes Public with Microsoft Linux Deal

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InfoWorldMike writes "On the back of defending the agreement this week, Novell did as promised and published details of its landmark November 2006 Linux partnership agreements with Microsoft. Linux advocates are expected to scour the documents for signs of how the agreement may affect Linux and whether anything in it will put Microsoft or Novell in potential violation of the upcoming version 3 of the GNU General Public license (GPL). The GPL is used in licensing many components of the Linux ope...

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Linux - Still a Hit in China

Posted by Jeff from digg.com

Linux continues to make inroads into China according to the latest market research.A new report from Beijing-based CCID Consulting pegs Linux operating sales revenues up by nearly 31 percent in the first quarter of 2007 to 31 million Yuan (just over US$4 million), as compared to the same period a year prior.

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Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded

Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

Cnet is reporting that Dell will shortly announce a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu pre-loaded on certain consumer-oriented desktops and notebooks. The announcement comes after a groundswell of support for pre-installed Linux on Dell's IdeaStorm site. 'The company is starting its business by trying to appeal to users of desktop computers. From there, Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth has said, the company plans to head to the server market, where the real Linux bread and but

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» Why Windows is less secure than Linux | Threat Chaos | ZDNet.com

Posted by Jeff from ZDNet

Both images are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture. The same page and picture. A system call is an opportunity to address memory. A hacker investigates each memory access to see if it is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.

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Linux ported to Sony PSP

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A self-described "world famous celebrity hacker" has managed to boot uClinux on Sony's MIPS-based PSP (Playstation Portable). Chris Mulhearn's port so far lacks support for key PSP peripherals such as the screen, but could interest hackers able to connect serially to the PSP's "remote headphones" port.

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Microsoft throws support behind longtime rival Novell's Linux platform

Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

Ballmer outlined an agreement to support Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise open-source server software. The companies will also enable customers — mostly businesses and large organizations — to deploy both Microsoft's software and Novell's Suse Linux in parallel on computer servers. "What's intriguing for me is Microsoft offering sales support of Suse Linux," said Laura DiDio, a research fellow with the Yankee Group. "This is almost like the lion and the lamb laying down together."

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