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Linux
for Government
February 02, 2005
By Demir Barlas - Linux specialist Red Hat
has established a formal government practice and announced
a new government customer, the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE). Red Hat has plenty of existing government customers,
and the creation of the new practice demonstrates Red
Hat's optimism in continuing to sell into this space.
It's an optimism bolstered by actual product development.
The next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will include
Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, on which Red Hat
has collaborated with the U.S. National Security Agency
(NSA).
The reasons for government to be particularly fond
of Linux are numerous. Linux is associated with cheaper
total cost of ownership (TCO), and the standards on
which it is built are attractive to governments who
want to make sure their software stays relevant and
supported. There's another reason, points out analyst
Dan Kuznetsky of IDC. "Governments outside the
U.S. are concerned that there are features and functions
buried in [proprietary] software that they don't know
about".
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Gentoo
for All the Unusual Reasons
January 05, 2005
By Andrew Cowie - You might think of Gentoo
as a bleeding-edge distribution for development workstations,
but the simple packaging system can make it a good choice
for any production system that needs to stay up to date.
Gentoo's reputation is that it's for people who want super
crazy optimizations, and it really is suitable only for
those who use desktops. In truth, Gentoo is ideal for
a whole bunch of other, unexpected, reasons. Much to my
surprise, people actually are using Gentoo in production
environments for these very reasons.
Faster - Gentoo is a built-from-source distribution;
GCC in particular allows one to specify the kind of
CPU on which the code will run. By specifying the processor
type, such as Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon Thunderbird,
the compiler is able to generate processor-specific
code that, in theory, results in better, faster machine
code. Ease of Use - Does the operating system help you
with the challenges that administering a system presents?
Much to my surprise, Gentoo Linux turns out to be really
good in this regard.
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Hosted
E-Mail Service Leaves Windows for Linux
October 29, 2004
By Juan Carlos Perez - Webmail.us, which provides
hosted e-mail service for small and medium-size businesses,
will announce next week a raft of improvements to its
service, including a major migration of its core e-mail
platform from Microsoft Windows to an open-source platform.
Webmail.us is an outsourced e-mail service aimed at companies
that have between 5 and 500 employees and has about 3500
companies as clients.
From a platform based on Windows running in-house applications,
Webmail.us has moved to a Linux operating system with
open-source e-mail applications such as PostFix, SquirrelMail,
Courier, and Clam A/V. Coupled with infrastructure enhancements
to its data center, Webmail.us now offers clients a
guaranteed uptime of 99.99 %.
"Using open source software allows us to tap into
the open source community and move faster than with
commercial manufacturers," said Patrick Matthews,
co-founder and chief executive officer of Webmail.us.
"It helps us with long-term scalability, which
is important because we're growing rapidly."
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Novell
to release first SUSE version after last year's buyout
April 22, 2004
Novell has announced that it will release SUSE
Linux 9.1 in Australia on May 1. Changes in this version
are minimal compared to version 9.0. which was already
deemed enterprise-ready. SUSE is the first commercial
distribution to use the 2.6 kernel and displays a marked
improvement in system and application responsiveness.
SUSE Linux 9.1 will retail for approximately $50-$100
per copy, significantly cheaper than the Windows OS.
SUSE , the second biggest among commercial distributions
of the open source operating system is aimed at the business
desktop.
Stealth Networks Secure Platform and Gateways are founded
on Linux, the most powerful, efficient and the fastest
growing business operating system today.
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AMD joins
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)
April 22, 2004
April 22, 2004 - AMD (AMD) today announced
its membership in the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL),
demonstrating a continued and strengthening commitment
between the development community and AMD. AMD also announced
recognition of the leadership role taken by the open-source
community to optimize software that allows customers to
deploy the powerful performance of the AMD Opteron(tm),
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 FX, and AMD Athlon 64 processors.
OSDL is a global consortium dedicated to accelerating
the growth and adoption of Linux and the support of open-source
solutions in the data center and on the desktop.
Stealth Networks Secure Platform and Gateways are founded
on Linux, the most powerful, efficient and the fastest
growing business operating system today.
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