June 18, 2013
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Thomas Penfield Jackson has died. The former U.S. District court judge ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a monopoly that should be broken up into two companies. This part of his decision was over-turned, but what might have happened had the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld his decision to break up Microsoft?
June 17, 2013
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The story sounded plausible. Red Hat was said to have announced that the next version of its flagship operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 would ship with the MariaDB database management system (DBMS) installed by default, instead of Oracle’s MySQL. Too bad the story was wrong.
Mark Coggin, senior director of product marketing for RHEL, told me that “RHEL provides customers choice by shipping with several databases supported on a 10-year life-cycle. We plan to do the same with RHEL 7 when it ships; however we are not confirming specific features such as the databases, at this time.”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 software stack still under wraps. More >
June 16, 2013
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Does it seem like everyone you know is getting a tablet computer? There’s a reason for that. They have been. Tablets are getting more popular than ever. According to the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, over a third of American adults now own a tablet.
June 14, 2013
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Worried sick about the NSA, or someone else, looking over your shoulder? Well, you can do things that will make it harder for someone to eavesdrop on you.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that all these things require a fair amount of effort, some will cripple your use of the modern Internet, and none of them will stop a sufficiently determined electronic Peeping Tom.
Six ways to protect yourself from the NSA and other eavesdroppers. More >
June 13, 2013
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Thanks to Windows 8’s Secure Boot, it’s getting harder and harder for a non-technical user to just get a new laptop and run Linux. System76, along with other Linux PC vendors such as ZaReason, have a better idea: Just buy a laptop with Linux already installed.
System76 introduces new high-end Ubuntu Linux laptops. More >
June 13, 2013
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The big news coming out of Red Hat‘s annual conference, Red Hat Summit, isn’t so much about Linux as it is about the company’s growing commitment to OpenStack cloud technology.