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For Sale: Linux OS and Other Assorted Assets

The offer, from hedge fund outfit Elliott Associates, was for $5.75 per share, valuing Novell at a shade under $2 billion. But bearing in mind that the company has vast cash piles in various currencies, worth about $950 million, and the offer values ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  11 Mar 2010
Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

System z: Dinosaur or Phoenix?

HP, Oracle and assorted other Linux and UNIX server vendors everywhere will be mighty relieved when IBM stops panicking about System z and resumes charging a more healthy premium for its mainframe products. Scan through IT news on any given ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  8 Jan 2010
Related Topics: Hewlett-Packard,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.

FreeBSD Shines While Apple Fails

A short time ago a 'local root' exploit was posted to the full-disclosure mailing list; as the name suggests, this allows a local user to execute arbitrary code as root ... since exploit code is already widely available I want to make a patch ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  2 Dec 2009

Lack of Innovation a Commonality for Microsoft, Apple

What we've tried to do with Windows 7 whether it's traditional format or in a touch format is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics. We've significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it's built on that very stable core ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  William Gates,  IBM,  Xerox,  Intel

Red Hat's KVM Surpasses Xen, Aims at VMWare

Red Hat's KVM virtualization technology is so advanced that it will inevitably consign the Xen hypervisor to the technological scrap heap. That's the view of Navin Thadani, a senior director of the Linux vendor's virtualization business. "We see ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Intel,  AMD

Google Says Hot Is Better, and 4 Other Ways to Reduce Hard Disk Failures

Hard drive failures are a fact of life: That's why there are RAID arrays, backup systems and an entire infrastructure designed to prevent data loss and minimize the impact to an organization when drives stop working. But that doesn't mean you can't do ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Like it or Not, The Cloud is Here to Stay and Red Hat's Jumping In

Earlier this month Red Hat announced its Deltacloud initiative to "enable an ecosystem of developers, tools, scripts, and applications which can interoperate across the public and private clouds." The potential impact on the ability of users, ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  26 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Red Hat, Inc.,  Google Inc.,  Leonardo da Vinci,  Microsoft Corporation

Learn Asterisk with a Fast Start Course

Asterisk bills itself as "the world's leading open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit." You can use it as the basis of a fully featured, enterprise-class phone system in your organization. Like any complex piece of ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  25 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Red Hat, Inc.

Body Found in Capitol Heights Fire Was That of Black Male

Authorities have determined that the body found inside a burning house in Capitol Heights early Saturday was a black male, but have yet to determine his identification or cause of death. The body was discovered when firefighters responded to a one-story ...

From RUBEN CASTANEDA AND PAUL DUGGAN, The Washington Post,  20 Sep 2009

Build Your Own PBX With Asterisk and Linux

Building your own corporate phone system using the Asterisk open source telephony suite could result in massive cost savings for your company, but it's not for the faint-hearted: Asterisk is a complex system, and if you mess up the phone system it ...

From PAUL RUBENS, LXer,  17 Sep 2009

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