Archive for November, 2007

CentOS gives Red Hat a kicking
The Inquirer – What we do is buy Red Hat for our critical production servers and use CensOS for our less than critical servers (mail, DNS, DHCP, etc) and test boxes. If CentOS was not available we would be using Debian or Ubuntu for our non Red Hat machines like my

Can OpenSolaris become an alternative to enterprise Linux?
ZDNet Blogs – The featured speaker for yesterday s open source summit at the Santa Clara headquarters was Debian founder Ian Murdock , who joined Sun earlier this year in part to make the OpenSolaris install process simpler. He also spread the word that Sun is

Ubuntu Linux Gets Feisty
Computerworld Australia – Three years after it burst onto the operating system scene, the Debian-based Ubuntu Linux has entered its sixth generation with the release of 7.04 dubbed “Feisty Fawn” globally today. Feisty Fawn is distributed as both a desktop and server edition

Skype 1.4 for Linux released
The Inquirer – INTERNET PHONE and chat application Skype has a new release 1.4 for Linux that’s just out of beta status after five months of testing, its website shows. Packages are available for eight major Linux distributions, including Debian Etch, Fedora Core 6

HP Backs Red Hat in Government Biz Bid
InternetNews.com – Novell’s SUSE Linux as well as Debian Linux are both supported by HP. Yet Lillestolen said neither Novell nor Debian has gone through Common Criteria certifications for the same level of security as RHEL 5. “With this announcement for multi-level