Ubuntu developers are rushing to bring you new open-source software. The project just released Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5, the fifth alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10. This alpha release offers a bunch of new features. But don’t get too excited yet. The final release won’t be available for about another month.
Microsoft has shipped the second preview version of SQL Server 2008. Redmond says the product will be released in the second quarter of next year.
Red Hat has made it clear: it won’t enter into a deal with Microsoft like the one Novell struck with the Redmond software giant. But Red Hat does want to interoperate with its rival.
Version 3 of the GPL is finally out. The Free Software Foundation took a stab at Apple’s iPhone software in its release, but what does mean for open-source server software? Red Hat’s IP team is pleased.
Ubuntu is not the only one rejecting Microsoft. Controversy is erupting in the Linux community following news that Xandros and Linspire opted for a pact with Microsoft, while Ubuntu and Red Hat flat out rejected the advances.
Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has been finding his way into tech news this week, first with a keynote address urging the Linux community to collaborate on security and now with a “no thanks” to Microsoft.
Microsoft issued six sets of updates to patch 15 bugs in June’s Patch Tuesday release. The fixes address 12 critical bugs, six of them in Windows software and six in Internet Explorer. Although the IE bugs are the focus of most security analysis this week, flaws in Windows Vista have become a topic of discussion as well.
Moving…just hearing the word is enough to put a shiver down your spine. Just when you’ve got your stuff exactly where you want it and it’s all working together like the proverbial well-oiled machine, it’s time to pack it all up and put it back down someplace else.
Mission critical: It’s a phrase you hear everywhere these days. But what is mission critical, really? Simply stated, it’s any process or procedure that is crucial to the successful completion of an entire project.
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