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Just like the old videogame, All Our Missile Bases Are Belonging to RedHawk Linux — or at least they will be protected by RedHawk Linux. Concurrent announced today that Lockheed Martin has selected Concurrent’s RedHawk Linux Distribution for the Army’s Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Program.
RedHawk Linux will be used by the Army to […]

Bytware has announced that they have released a beta version of StandGuard Anti-Virus for Linux, their anti-virus package for Linux on the x86 platform.
StandGuard Anti-Virus for Linux uses the McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine and runs native for Linux on the x86 platform. It also uses virus definition updates from McAfee.
Since McAfee has their own anti-virus […]

For those of you lucky enough to have an iPod nano, ThePlaceforitAll has posted instructions on how to install iPod Linux on your iPod nano. I’m sure your first question would be Why would I want to do this? I think there are two main reasons:

Play Doom on your Nano - There is a version […]

Tom’s Hardware Guide has a review of the new Ubuntu H2 Micro USB Drive. This is a tiny 3GB portable hard drive in a very small and (supposedly) rugged package that can be used to run Ubuntu Linux on just about any computer.

The drive comes with a usb cable and connector, a pleather carrying case, […]

With Linux Kernel 2.6.14 released almost a month late and the pressure to release future Kernels sooner, Linus Torvalds has stated that he is going to get tough on Kernel Coders. Quote from Torvalds:
If people miss the merge window or start abusing it with hurried last minute things that just cause problems for RC1, I’ll […]

McAfee has posted details on a relatively new Linux Worm that has been found in the wild. Called Linux / Lupper.worm, this is a variant of the Linux / Slapper and BSD / Scalper worms and it propagates using the same methods as these worms.
The worm spreads by infecting Web Servers that are hosting vulnerable […]

Nokia has begun shipping there first Linux Powered consumer device, the 770 Internet Tablet.

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is a small tablet device designed to provide many online functions in a portable device. Both WiFi and Bluetooth networking are built in and there is an 800 x 480 pixel color touch screen and 64MB of […]

I’m always on the lookout for the perfect Linux distribution and after seeing this review of a new distribution called PCLinuxOS. The review talks about how simple and quick the install is and that everything just works - which is definitely one of my main requirements for a new Linux distribution.
PCLinuxOS is apparently a fork […]

I’ve been hearing alot of good things about Ubuntu Linux lately. Everything from a simple install, good hardware support, and that it is a stable Debian based distribution have made me think about trying Ubuntu out. Finally, yesterday I decided it was time. So I went to the Ubuntu Website and was pleasantly surprised to […]

If you’ve ever tried to install Oracle, you know it’s not easy. Even for people who do this for a living, an Oracle Database install is extremely time consuming and not something that anyone looks forward to attempting. Especially when it comes to Oracle on Linux, where just installing the Linux Operating System with the […]