As if there aren’t enough already, Linspire has announced that they are releasing a free, open source and community driven version of their Linspire Linux Distribution. Following in the footsteps of Fedora and openSUSE, this will be another bleeding edge distribution for testing. It is Debian based like their Linspire Distribution and will come in […]
While I would never discourage anyone from trying to get Linux to run on something, I sometimes wonder why they would want to in the first place. I guess this is another one of those situations. Apparently, Linux has now been modified and compiled to run on the Nintendo Gamecube. The Gamecube Linux project has […]
ZDNet UK is reporting that Gentoo Linux Founder Daniel Robbins has left his position in the Linux and Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft. Robbins had only been with Microsoft for eight months in an education role within the company.
This always struck me as a strange move for someone that was so intimately involved with […]
In the tradition of having Linux run on any piece of computer hardware known to man, Computerworld is reporting that a number of popular Linux distributions are working to make their versions of Linux run on the new Apple Macintosh Computers that use Intel processors.
Some of the current Linux distributions, like Mandriva, already support […]
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 […]
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